Vacancies - Centre for Multilevel Modelling, University of Bristol
The Centre for Multilevel Modelling is seeking to appoint two social statisticians or social scientists with advanced quantitative skills for two ESRC-funded research projects.
Research Assistant/Associate in Social Statistics (vacancy ref. 15633), 34 months from 1 October 2010
We are seeking to appoint a statistician or quantitative social scientist to join an interdisciplinary research team on a new ESRC-funded project Interrelationships between Housing Transitions and Fertility in Britain and Australia. The appointment will be at either Research Assistant or Research Associate level according to experience.
The principal aim of the project is to examine the extent to which tenure changes and residential mobility are triggered by fertility outcomes such as the birth of a(nother) child or a child reaching primary or secondary school age, allowing for the effects of other social processes such as union formation and dissolution and employment changes. We will also consider the effects of household structure (e.g. comparing lone parents and couples with children) and the extent to which couples move in anticipation of childbearing, particularly during pregnancy. The project will use data from the British Household Panel Study and the Housing, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia Survey. The project is led by Fiona Steele at Bristol with colleagues from the Universities of Queensland, Essex and Liverpool. Further details of the project can be found at http://www.cmm.bris.ac.uk/research/Housing-Transitions/index.shtml
You will assist in various strands of the project, including data management, data analysis and the preparation of publications and training materials.
Closing Date for applications: 23 August 2010
Further details and an application form can be found at http://www.bris.ac.uk/boris/jobs/feeds/ads?ID=89012
Research Assistant in Social Statistics (vacancy ref.15634), 1 year from 1 October 2010
We are seeking to appoint a statistician or quantitative social scientist to join an interdisciplinary research team specialising in the analysis of social data with complex structure to address substantive research questions. The researcher will work on the ESRC-funded project Learning Environment for Multilevel Methodology and Applications (LEMMA 2). LEMMA 2 is part of the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) which consists of a co-ordinating Hub at the University of Southampton and six Nodes spread across the UK. LEMMA is co-ordinated by Fiona Steele, Harvey Goldstein (both Graduate School of Education) and Bill Browne (School of Clinical Veterinary Sciences), and also involves George Leckie and Jo-Anne Baird from the Graduate School of Education and colleagues from the School of Geographical Sciences and Department of Economics. Further details of the LEMMA 2 project can be found at http://www.cmm.bris.ac.uk/research/Lemma/2/index.shtml
You will assist in various strands of the project, including data management, data analysis and the preparation of publications and training materials.
Closing Date for applications: 23 August 2010
Further details and an application form can be found at http://www.bris.ac.uk/boris/jobs/feeds/ads?ID=89010
