POSTED: 16 Sep, 2022

We are pleased to announce a new scholarship for the Centre that is funded by and also a part of CSIRO’s Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Platform. 

The Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Platform develops the science that enables human intelligence and technology to work together across multiple domains, driving sustainable productivity growth and improving both the quantity and quality of jobs for human workers.

The PhD project will conduct research into collaboration between humans and robots (or AI more generally), focusing on the impact that these collaborations have on the human’s experience of work. This impact may be both positive and negative since the collaboration allows each actor to achieve more than either could alone but also changes the role of the human worker. In addition, we need to consider work design principles, since the transformative potential of collaborative intelligence will only be realised if organisational functions and processes are adapted to reflect these new ways of working.

The project, entitled “Collaborative robots and humans’ work: human skills, attitudes and potential for motivation”, will conduct research in human-robots collaboration, in particular in the design of collaborative  robots to improve the motivating potential of work for humans and the transformative potential of artificial  intelligence and connective technology.

The project will develop tools, methodologies and processes required to integrate artificial and human intelligence and produce appropriate workflows and designs which could have a transformative impact across a wide range of industries and domains. The research will provide a more comprehensive and detailed understanding of the workforce uplift that is required to realise the transformative potential of collaborative intelligence and robots.

The Phd Project will conduct research into collaboration between humans and robots (or AI more generally), focusing on the impact that these collaborations have on the motivating potential of work for humans and the skills needed by human workers.

The use of collaborative robots has the potential to affect the human’s experience of work in both positive and negative ways since the collaboration allows each actor to achieve more than either could alone but also changes the role of the human worker.  In addition, the transformative potential of artificial intelligence and connective technology is only realised when organisational functions and processes are adapted to reflect these new ways of working.

The project will be part of CSIRO’s Collaborative Intelligence Future Science Platform that will develop the science that enables human intelligence and technology to work together across multiple domains, driving sustainable productivity growth and improving both the quantity and quality of jobs for human workers. The project will develop tools, methodologies and processes required to integrate artificial and human intelligence and produce appropriate workflows and designs which could have a transformative impact across a wide range of industries and domains. The research will provide a more comprehensive and detailed understanding of the workforce uplift that is required to realise the transformative potential of collaborative intelligence and robots.

Scholarship details

• A scholarship, tax exempt and indexed annually, from $34,013 per annum for a period of 3 years will be provided to the successful applicant with four weeks paid leave per year included.
• the researcher will be based at CSIRO and QUT
• the student will be enrolled at QUT and must meet QUT’s eligibility requirements

How to apply

Submit an EOI via our page if you are interested