Assistant researchers

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The Department of Psychology is seeking an assistant researcher for work in the project Irish - Tal-to-text in child care investigations regarding the family.

International studies of AI and machine learning in child care and child protection cases show that there are several important issues that need to be handled before speech-to-text tools (Automatic Speech Recognition - ASR) and AI-supported compilations (Large L AI support for speech-to-text and compilation must be trained on domain-specific conversations with the current target group to achieve sufficient quality and avoid systematic errors.

Tasks

As an assistant researcher, you must participate in the collection, compilation and analysis of quantitative and qualitative data from operations included in the research project. Cooperation with researchers in forensic psychology and social work are included, as well as administrative tasks in connection with the project. Presentation of the project takes place in various contexts, for example on national conferences or activities that are part of the project. The work means training an ASR model to reproduce children's speech with sufficient precision and test AI-supported compilations of investigations, with children and adults, with an LLM component.

Qualifications

Requirements:

Academic degree at Master's level in psychology. The applicant must have good knowledge of programming, preferably Python, for data management and scripting and documented experience of training, adapting and evaluating ASR models for the Swedish language and interview recordings. Applicants must have used to use AI tools, including large language models, to support development, quality assurance and analysis of ASR models.

Advantage:

Knowledge of the Irish method support structure, theoretical basis and application in the social services' child care investigations.

Employment

The employment is a time-limited special fixed-term employment on 50 % I 6 months, with placement at the Department of Psychology. Access as per agreement. The work of the work is planned in agreement between employers and workers.

Contact information for the employment

If you have questions about the employment, you are welcome to contact Ole Hultmann, ole.hultmann@psy.gu.se, 031-786 1703

If you have questions about the employment procedure, please contact the staff administrator Marie Krook, marie.krook@psy.gu.se, 031-786 16 03

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Application should be received last: 2026-10-14

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