PhD fellowship on Street-level Bureaucracy of Regulatory Implementation for AI

The Human Centered Computing Section at the Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Science at the University of Copenhagen invites applicants for a PhD fellowship on Street-level Bureaucracy of Regulatory Implementation for AI. The start date is expected to be 1 February 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position

This doctoral position is part of REGULAIRE (Regulatory Learning for the Governance of Transformative Technologies) is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network bringing together 15 doctoral candidates at ten European universities to study how regulation can learn and adapt in situations where technologies, risks, and expectations change quickly.

Its projects examine how regulators sense emerging problems early, how balanced interventions encourage learning without overcorrection or underreaction, how such interventions alter institutional capacities, and how feedback can be institutionalised so that insights travel across organisations and jurisdictions.

Project description The PhD student’s research is expected to conduct in-depth qualitative studies of how EU digital regulation (e.g., AIA, DSA) is technically and organisationally implemented in SMEs developing AI-related technologies1 …