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UCT researcher wins global grant to study AI and youth unemployment | SA News

12 February 2026 by Guest

A University of Cape Town (UCT) researcher has received a prestigious international research grant to investigate whether artificial intelligence (AI) can help improve employment prospects for unemployed young people in South Africa – placing youth at the centre of a global conversation on the future of work.

Dr Tim Köhler, a senior research officer at the Development Policy Research Unit (DPRU) in UCT’s School of Economics, is among 19 early-career researchers worldwide selected from over 300 applicants to receive funding from Schmidt Sciences’ AI at Work programme, which is investing more than US$3 million (about R48 million) in real-world studies on how generative AI is…

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