NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY, U.K.
SCHOOL OF MATHEMATICS & STATISTICS
Research Associate in Statistics
Grade F Starting Salary: £27,318 - £28,132
Applications are invited for a Research Associate position in the School of Mathematics & Statistics, to work with Professor Darren Wilkinson on the ESRC-funded project "Social media analysis for social geography". This post is available for a period of 18 months with a start date of no later than 1st June 2014.
The successful applicant will be part of a multi-disciplinary team involving 5 investigators and 4 RAs, and will utilise the social media infrastructure developed by the SiDE project (www.side.ac.uk), exploring the use of modern statistical modelling techniques for social media data, including social graph analysis, and modelling of network dynamics and meme propagation. We seek a statistician with strong computational skills and experience of Bayesian modelling, ideally in a "big data" context.
Experience of social networking data analysis is advantageous, but not required.
Informal enquiries may be made to Professor Darren Wilkinson (This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.). More information about the School can be found at http://www.ncl.ac.uk/maths. Closing date: 7th April 2014.
For further details, including the application procedure, see:
http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AII118/research-assistant-research-associate-in-statistics/
