CDP Doctoral: AI-Powered Vindolanda Tablet Decoding

Job in City Of London, Central London, Greater London, England, UK

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Contract position
Listed on 2026-02-11

Job specializations:

Education / Teaching
Data Scientist

Location: City Of London

Overview

Collaborative Doctoral Partnership studentship – Decoding the Vindolanda tablets (Nottingham/British Museum)

Project description

AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship – Decoding the Vindolanda tablets:
Generative AI to reassemble, read and restore Roman handwritten texts with The British Museum and University of Nottingham

The project will test generative AI on a series of tasks aimed at recovering more of the texts of the Vindolanda tablets, including handwritten text recognition, reassembly of fragments, disentangling of palimpsest texts and restoration of missing sections.

Supervision and placement

This project will be jointly supervised by Professor Alex Mullen (University of Nottingham), Dr Richard Hobbs (British Museum) and Dr Kai Xu (University of Nottingham), and the student will be expected to spend time at both the University of Nottingham and the British Museum, as well as becoming part of the wider cohort of CDP funded students across the UK.

Application details

Final date to receive applications: 2nd June 2025, 17:00

Interviews will take place online on 26th June 2025.

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