<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18.6667px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">Dear All</div><div style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18.6667px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><br></div><div style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18.6667px;color:rgb(32,31,30)">*Apologies for cross-posting*</div><div style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:18.6667px;color:rgb(32,31,30)"><br></div><div><div style="margin:0px 0px 16px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(32,31,30)">We are pleased to announce an opportunity for a funded PhD studentship (</span><span style="font-family:"times new roman",serif;font-size:18px"><b>Delivering Functional Imagery Training via Generative AI To Improve Access to Effective Psychological Interventions for Health</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(32,31,30)">) at Plymouth University, UK. </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">The closing date for applications is</span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,36,81)"> </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(200,38,19)"><b>29</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(204,0,0)"><b>th May 2024 (</b></span><b><font color="#cc0000" face="times new roman, serif" size="4">midnight, UK time)</font><font color="#333333" face="sans-serif" size="3"> </font></b><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(59,32,77)"><b>(</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(134,17,6)"><b><u>The difference in tuition fees between national and international students will be waived for international candidates</u></b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(59,32,77)"><b>)</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(32,31,30)">.</span></div><div style="margin:0px 0px 16px;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">Join our interdisciplinary team to shape the future of mental health care. <b>AI models like ChatGPT</b> fundamentally change the landscape for the automated delivery of psychological interventions. These models will likely make it possible to deliver <b>psychologically-informed treatment</b> at scale, meeting a substantial unmet need for these services.</div><div style="margin:0px"><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)">This project will develop datasets and software to deliver <b>Functional Imagery Training (FIT)</b> via mobile devices and, ultimately, via <b>embodied agents (robots)</b>. As a person-centred intervention, FIT presents an interesting challenge: the practitioner or AI must tailor responses to the content of what the 'client' says, and guide mental imagery exercises based on that personal content. By building an interdisciplinary team of psychologists and machine learning experts this project will deliver real-world impact with broad implications for mental healthcare. More details <b>about the topic </b>and </span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(134,17,6)"><b>how to apply</b></span><span style="font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> are available at: </span><span style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"> </span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-family:"Times New Roman",Times,serif;font-size:14pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><br></div></div><div style="font-family:Aptos,Aptos_EmbeddedFont,Aptos_MSFontService,Calibri,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0)"><a href="https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA540/phd-studentship-fit-for-all-delivering-functional-imagery-training-via-generative-ai-to-improve-access-to-effective-psychological-interventions-for-health" id="m_-3139197262412234858m_4819265128655162762LPlnk" target="_blank">https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA540/phd-studentship-fit-for-all-delivering-functional-imagery-training-via-generative-ai-to-improve-access-to-effective-psychological-interventions-for-health</a></div><div><div id="m_-3139197262412234858m_4819265128655162762LPBorder_GTaHR0cHM6Ly93d3cuam9icy5hYy51ay9qb2IvREhBNTQwL3BoZC1zdHVkZW50c2hpcC1maXQtZm9yLWFsbC1kZWxpdmVyaW5nLWZ1bmN0aW9uYWwtaW1hZ2VyeS10cmFpbmluZy12aWEtZ2VuZXJhdGl2ZS1haS10by1pbXByb3ZlLWFjY2Vzcy10by1lZmZlY3RpdmUtcHN5Y2hvbG9naWNhbC1pbnRlcnZlbnRpb25zLWZvci1oZWFsdGg." style="width:800px;margin-top:16px;margin-bottom:16px;max-width:800px;min-width:424px"><table id="m_-3139197262412234858m_4819265128655162762LPContainer100290" style="padding:12px 36px 12px 12px;width:800px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(200,200,2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