Jobs & Appointments

The James Hutton Institute Information and Computational Sciences Social Systems Simulation Modeller Salary Band E £35,282-£37,534 or Band D £27,792-£29,566 * Applications are invited for a Social Systems Modeller to join a small team of researchers applying agent-based social simulation to lifestyles, renewable energy and the low carbon economy. You will be developing and working with agent-based social simulation model(ler)s to feed into policy deliberation and complex multi-stakeholder […]

Research Fellow - Participatory Agent-Based Modelling Centre for Research in Social Simulation, University of Surrey Salary: up to GBP 29,541 per annum The Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems programme (ERIE) is a large project funded by EPSRC under its ‘Complexity Science for the Real World’ theme that is addressing a series of fundamental questions about the application of complexity science to social and economic systems. The research aims to embed complexity science […]

Centre for Research in Social Simulation University of Surrey, Guildford, UK 2 Research Fellows for the Whole System Energy Modelling Consortium: (a) Agent-based modelling of household energy demand (b) Social practices of energy consumption (Ref: 9385) Posts available from July 2013 Salary: up to £37,382 per annum Two positions are available in the Centre for Research in Social Simulation to work with Professor Nigel Gilbert in the new four-year, £5.7 million WholeSEM (Whole Systems […]

Postdoctoral Researcher in Land Use Change Modelling Vacancy Ref: : 012323 Closing Date : 02-May-2013 Contact Person : Professor Mark Rounsevell Contact Email : mark.rounsevell@ed.ac.uk We are seeking to appoint a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of Land Use Change Modelling for a period of 2 years. Based within the School of GeoSciences, University of Edinburgh, you will join a team of researchers studying the effects of environmental change on land use at multiple temporal and […]

Department of Sociology Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences University of Surrey Models in Policy Making - Funded PhD Studentship The Department of Sociology invites applications for a funded studentship associated with the interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics and Computing and the Centre for Environmental Strategy (http://erie.surrey.ac.uk). Models are increasingly being used to […]

The Department of Sociology at the University of Surrey, UK, invites applications for three PhD studentships associated with the interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics and Computing and the Centre for Environmental Strategy . The doctoral students will be part of the ERIE team that is using two case studies to explore a crucial aspect of the UK economy: the […]

Centre for Environmental Strategy, Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Surrey Fully Funded PhD Studentship on the Role of Social and Physical Networks in Promoting Sustainable Industrial Systems The Centre for Environmental Strategy invites applications for a PhD studentship on the EPSRC-funded interdisciplinary research project ERIE (Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems), a joint venture with the Departments of Mathematics, Computing and Sociology […]

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 student position (m/f)The Department of Computational Landscape Ecology (www.ufz.de/cle) invites applications for1 PhD Student position (m/f)- Code digit 51/2011 –to commence as early as possible. The appointment is limited to 3 years and is subject to final funding approval by the funding agency. The position is part of the project “Energieeffiziente Stadt Delitzsch” (http://uni-leipzig.de/~effstadt/cms/).The candidate is expected to develop an agent-based model on residential […]

Research Fellow Sustainable Industrial Ecosystems University of Surrey - Department of Sociology Grade Level 4 Ref. 7613 Salary Range - From £28,983 Salary Range - To £32,620 Close Date Sunday, June 20, 2010 The Evolution and Resilience of Industrial Ecosystems programme (ERIE) is a new project funded by EPSRC under its ‘Complexity Science for the Real World’ theme that will address a series of fundamental questions relating to the application of complexity science to social and economic […]