Jobs & Appointments

An Agent-Based Model approach to understanding changes in ethnic relations: applications to neighbourhood ethnic composition and health. Applications are invited for a 3-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) PhD Studentship based at the new ESRC-funded Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) under the supervision of Professor James Nazroo, Dr Laia Bécares, and Dr Nick Shryane. The project provides a studentship covering UK/EU tuition fees and an annual tax-free stipend at […]

Institutions: The James Hutton Institute (JHI) & Centre for Policy Modelling, Manchester Metropolitan University (CPM) JHI PhD Supervisor: Dr G Polhill, JH Co-Supervisor: Dr A Girmona CPM/MMU PhD Director of Studies: Dr Bruce Edmonds Application Deadline: 15 January 2013 Funding Availability: Competition Funded PhD Project (European/UK Students Only) Context In a landscape managed by multiple owners varying from homeowners and non-agricultural businesses through to estates and agri- […]

Contract available for 2 years from February 2013 Salary: up to £35,938 per annum TELL ME (Transparent communication in Epidemics: Learning Lessons from experience, delivering effective Messages, providing Evidence) is a 36 month project funded by the European Commission within Framework 7, which aims to provide evidence and to develop models for improved risk communication during infectious disease crises. TELL ME combines public health, social sciences, behavioral sciences, political […]

The LABSS, Laboratory on Agent Based Social Simulation, offers a 12-months (renewable in the context of a 3-years project) graduate fellowship position for a social simulator (computer scientist, physicist, or code-savy social scientist - see the full list in the detailed call), in the topic of “simulative and modelistic research on the relevance of social norms and of punishment in legal and illegal systems”, under the scientific responsibility of Dr. Rosaria Conte and Dr. Mario Paolucci. […]

PhD Position at the Centre for Policy Modelling on: Data-mining, Visualisation and Agent-Based Modelling Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees for 3 years Centre for Policy Modelling Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Applications are invited to apply for this fully-funded doctoral position at the Centre for Policy Modelling, to investigate some of the potential synergies between data-mining, visualisation techniques and agent-based modelling. This studentship is […]

Post-doctoral researcher in Formalization and Simulation of Social Dynamics Place: GSADI - Analytical Sociology and Institutional Design Group, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), http://gsadi.uab.cat. Barcelona, SPAIN Requirements: Candidates should hold a PhD and have prior training in Sociology or business/social sciences profile, combined with formal and computational skills. Candidates must be willing to relocate to Barcelona area for three years (2012-2014). Familiarity with […]

PhD Studentship at the Centre for Policy Modelling as part of the EPSRC-funded SCID project (re-advertised due to an appointed candidate dropping out for personal reasons) Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees From time of appointment up to August 2015 maximum Centre for Policy Modelling Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Applications are invited students to work on modelling projects associated with the EPSRC project: the Social Complexity of Immigration and […]

e-Policy is a new project funded by the European Commission under its Framework 7 programme that aims to equip policymakers with integrated models, visualization, simulation and opinion mining techniques that improve the outcomes of complex decision making. The project will involve expertise from computational social science, environmental engineering, optimization, machine learning and visualization. It will use the formation of a regional energy plan in the Emilia Romagna region of Italy […]

PhD StudentshipCentre for Policy Modelling (http://cfpm.org)Manchester Metropolitan University(as part of the EPSRC-funded SCID project)Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees1+3 years or 3 years depending on previous research experienceup to 4 year PhD studentship in Agent-based modelling, at the Centrefor Policy Modelling , Manchester, UK starting sept2011, as part of the EPSRC funded SCID project(http://scid-project.org).Details at: http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ACR878/phd-studentship/

POSTDOCTORAL POSITION (Nov 2010 – Oct 2011) Looking for a SOCIAL SCIENTIST WITH SOCIAL SIMULATION BACKGROUND, INTERESTED IN SUPPORTING AND RESEARCHING PARTICIPATORY DEVELOPMENT OF ROLE PLAYING GAMES AND COMPANION MODELS. The Research Institution El Colegio de la Frontera Sur is a non-Profit, government funded, Mexican academic institution with 5 campuses on the southern border of Mexico. It integrates long-term research, Masters/PhD teaching, and participatory outreach through a host of […]