AI and Workplace Inclusion
Short description
AI is increasingly involved in recruitment, evaluation, communication, coordination, learning and career development. This project examines how those uses can support workplace inclusion or reproduce existing inequalities and create new forms of exclusion. Applicants are invited to develop a theoretically and practically relevant question within this broad theme.
Possible topics include belonging, authenticity, employee participation, visibility, learning and career opportunities, with attention to differences such as ethnicity, cultural or linguistic background, gender, age or disability. Applicants may propose their own theoretical perspective, empirical setting and methods. The successful candidate will refine the project with the supervisory team and connect the research with organisational practice through a secondment.
Interested in this project?
Applications are now open. Apply by 1 December 2026, 23:59 CET. The intended start date is 1 February 2027.
Submit through the university’s official application procedure. The advertisement sets out the required documents and full funding and appointment terms.
You may apply to up to four EMANAIRE doctoral projects. Submit a separate application for each position and briefly identify your other EMANAIRE applications, including any you intend to submit, in each motivation or cover letter.
What the project involves
- Develop your own research question on how AI supports workplace inclusion or creates new forms of exclusion.
- Choose a focus such as belonging, participation, visibility, learning or career opportunities within AI-supported organisational practices.
- Propose a theoretical perspective, empirical setting and appropriate methods, such as fieldwork, interviews, surveys or experiments.
- Refine the project with the supervisory team and connect the findings with organisational practice.