Topic: perception and action

Permanent, full-time reader appointment in the School of Informatics, with hybrid working. Research should advance AI methods at the intersection of perception and action. Relevant areas include continual learning, agentic and world models, embodied intelligence, reinforcement learning, decision-making under uncertainty and long-duration autonomy. Responsibilities include original research, undergraduate and postgraduate teaching, and student supervision. The advertised closing time is 23:59 UK time on 20 October 2026.

Matthieu de Wit, Luis Favela and Vicente Raja examine how neuroscience can use ecological psychology without losing its theoretical commitments. Topics include perception and action, organism–environment relations, affordances, dynamics and the challenges of explaining naturalistic neural data within a field dominated by computational and mechanistic approaches.