Jobs & Appointments

This +3 ESRC PhD Studentship is attached to the new ESRC Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) at the University of Manchester. The studentship-holder will use agent-based models to examine the dynamic relationships between ethnicity, neighbourhood characteristics and health. The deadline for applications is January 31st 2013. Candidates may be called for interview in early February 2013. Details at: http://www.ccsr.ac.uk/CoDE/CoDE_ABM_Studentship.pdf

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 […]

Modeling and Simulation of Health Behavior Faculty Position - Assistant or Associate Professor (TS) (#0130144). The Department of Behavioral and Community Health Sciences (BCHS) at the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Public Health (http://www.publichealth.pitt.edu/) is announcing a full-time faculty position in modeling and simulation of health behavior. We seek an assistant or associate professor with skills in computational, simulation, and modeling approaches to the dynamics […]

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 Center for Applied GIScience at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (http://gis.uncc.edu) is seeking a broadly trained post-doctoral research associate in Geographic Information Science with a focus on spatiotemporal simulation of complex adaptive spatial systems. Specific preferred requirements and expectations include 1) expertise in spatiotemporal simulation (e.g., agent-based models and cellular automata) and complexity theory; 2) expertise or experience in quantitative […]

Fully Funded PhD Studentship – Department of Sociology, University of Leicester The Department of Sociology is seeking applicants for a 3 year full-time funded studentship (covering fees and stipend) leading to a PhD. The studentship is for full-time study only and the successful applicant will be expected to commence their studies in September 2012 or as soon as possible thereafter. UK/EU Applicants only. Research Areas: We are particularly interested in applicants who wish to work in the […]

The PhD Studentship is fully funded for UK/EU applicants, and is offered by the Systems Centre, University of Bristol. The project will address the need for systematic research in the area of complex systems models design, with a specific aim to improve the accuracy of disease-spreading models, by incorporating recently discovered real-world human mobility patterns. State of the art disease-spreading models rest on the assumptions that populations are well mixed and homogeneous. However, […]

The projects will be conducted in the Centre for Spatial Analysis and Policy (CSAP) which is a leading research cluster for spatial analysis and agent-based modelling. The research council deadline for applications is in early February, so if you are interested please get in contact soon so that we have time to help with the application. For more information, please contact myself (n.malleson06@leeds.ac.uk), Andrew Evans (A.J.Evans@leeds.ac.uk) or Alison Heppenstall […]

Applications are invited for a postdoctoral position in mathematical epidemiology (infectious disease modelling) at the University of Toronto. The successful candidate will be expected to play a major role in a multi-investigator, multi-institutional project supported by the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) regarding strategies for protecting vulnerable Canadian populations from emerging infectious diseases. The research will use agent-based models to address a range of […]

The Center for the Study of Complex Systems (cscs.umich.edu), in collaboration with the Center for Social Epidemiology and Population Health (www.sph.umich.edu/cseph), is seeking applicants for a Research Computer Specialist for a computational modeling and analysis position as part of the newly formed Network on Inequality, Complexity and Health program (www.sitemaker.umich.edu/nich), an interdisciplinary group of researchers at multiple Universities who together will establish the […]