Global St Andrews and Macquarie Doctoral Scholarship - Computer Science and Law

The University of St Andrews and Macquarie University offer a jointly-funded scholarship to support an exceptional doctoral student undertaking research on the project 'Artificial Intelligence and Copyright Law: The Problem of Authorship.' This is a cotutelle/joint PhD program where students enroll at both institutions from the outset and spend 50% of their time at each university. The project explores the interdisciplinary challenges that arise when copyright's concept of authorship meets artificial intelligence, examining questions about human contribution, authorship verification, and the proper scope of copyright in AI output. The scholarship provides full tuition fee coverage at both institutions, living allowances while at each location, and airfare support for travel between the UK and Australia. Students will be supervised by Dr Tristan Henderson at St Andrews' School of Computer Science and Dr Daniela Simone at Macquarie Law School, with access to research centres and resources at both universities including computing equipment, research funding, and conference travel support.