Jobs & Appointments

Research Fellow - Agent Based Modelling De Montfort University - Institute of Energy & Sustainable Development (IESD) Fixed term for 2 years in the first instance Grade F: £30,747 - £33,600 per annum http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/ABN113/research-fellow-agent-based-modelling The IESD is a research-led multidisciplinary group of specialists whose aim is to make a worthwhile and significant contribution to sustainable development through research, consultancy and education. A researcher is sought […]

Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (CASA) - University College London (UCL), UK Duration of Studentship: 3.5 years Stipend: £18,000 p.a. Closing Date: 20 Jul 2010 Studentship Start Date: September / October 2010 Vacancy Information ----------------------------------------------------------- Applications are invited for a three and a half year (subject to satisfactory progress) EPSRC Industrial CASE PhD Studentship with Legion Ltd in Pedestrian Route-Choice Behaviour Modelling under […]

We are seeking a postgraduate student with a background in both the social and natural sciences to work on this exciting new ESRC/NERC studentship. This project aims to investigate the combined impacts of potential climate change and settlement on the stability of grassland ecosystems in southern Africa, and thus on livelihood security. The specific importance of this research lies in the following factors: 1) Grassland environments underpin the livelihoods of 793 million people globally, […]

The Institute for Environmental Systems Research at Osnabrück University has an opening for a Research Associate (100% A13) Societal Transformation Processes and Modelling of Social Systems from the 1st of September 2010 for an initial duration of three years with the possibility of extension for another three years. The tasks comprise research and teaching in the area of complex dynamics and modelling of social systems. This should include both the development of general concepts and […]

Two PhD Studentships at the CPM available (as part of the SCID project ) Stipend: £13,290 per annum + applicable fees 1+3 years or 3 years deending on experience Centre for Policy Modelling Manchester Metropolitan University Business School Applications are invited for 2 phd students to work on modelling projects associated with the EPSRC project: the Social Complexity of Immigration and Diversity (SCID). This project is in association with the University of Manchester’s Institute for […]

The Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) of VU University Amsterdam invites applications for: Postdoc Global Land Use Modelling f/m For 1.0 fte Vacancy number: 1.2010.00122 The applicant will be based in the Department of Spatial Analysis and Decision Support at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM). This department is an international research group of about thirty researchers, faculty members and PhD students. The department has a leading role in spatial analysis of complex […]

Two Four-Year Research Fellow Posts in Complex Social Systems Simulation http://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/AAZ394/research-fellows-complex-systems-simulation-two-posts/ EPSRC Care Life Cycle Research Programme University of Southampton - School of Social Sciences £27,319 to £31,671 per annum The University of Southampton has recently been awarded over £3million by the EPSRC under its ‘Complexity Science in the Real World’ initiative to carry out research on the ‘Care Life Cycle: Responding to the […]

The interdisciplinary research centre REEDS at the UVSQ*, wishes to recruit two persons at post-doctoral or research officer level, for work on a novel interdisciplinary research project to develop a multi-agent model for a Neolithic agrarian society. The project OBRESOC — Un observatoire rétrospectif d’une société archéologique: la trajectoire du néolithique Rubané — is funded by the French national research agency (ANR) and coordinated by Professeur Jean-Pierre BOCQUET-APPEL, Directeur […]

Dr. Owen Petchey at the University of Sheffield and colleagues have available funding for a PhD student to perform computational modelling of the collapse of ecological communities. This is an excellent opportunity for individuals with mathematical and computational experience to explore and research how networks of interacting individuals fail via extinctions. The funding is a prestigious Scholarship from Microsoft Research. For further information about the research and scholarship see […]

A research position is available in the Sciences for Action and Sustainable Development (SAD) Department of INRA (France) at the Unit頍ixte de Recherche Dynamiques agricoles et foresti貥s dans les paysages ruraux (UMR 1201 DYNAFOR) to work on the Participatory Assessment and Modelling of change in livestock farming systems at the farm and the landscape level. The recruited scientist will join an interdisciplinary research group involved in long term social-ecological research on rural […]