Jobs & Appointments

Applications are invited for a 3-year Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) PhD Studentship based at CoDE under the supervision of Professor James Nazroo, Dr Laia Becares, and Dr Nick Shryane. The studentship covers UK/EU tuition fees, an annual tax-free stipend at Research Council rates (£13,590 in 2012/13), plus the Advanced Quantitative Methods supplement (£3,000 per year) for a total of £16,590. Funding will be for three years of full-time study (+3 Scheme), starting in October […]

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 […]

Job opening: 3 year PhD position at Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH Zurich) in the field of empirical based Multi-Agent Simulation of Opinion Dynamics. The doctoral project “Tipping points in public opinion. A Multi-Agent System simulating shifts from indifferent and ambivalent to polarized opinions” is funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Employment will be by the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (Eawag: http://www.eawag.ch/index_EN); the […]

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 […]

Profile The chair of Human-Environment Relations at the Department of Geography, University of Munich, has an inter- and transdisciplinary orientation and studies the question of transition towards sustainability. Key issues thereby are the processes in Human-Environment Systems which are at the interface of individual decision-making, social structure, governance, and environment. The research fields tackled include sustainable resource management (e.g., energy, water, phosphorous); […]

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 Resilience and Adaptive Management Group (http://ram.uaa.alaska.edu/) at the University of Alaska Anchorage invites applications for a Postdoctoral Scientist in the area of computational social science and social-ecological systems. The position is for two years, with the likelihood of an additional year renewal. The successful candidate will work in one or more of the following areas: text analysis and text mining, social data collection, social and spatial analysis, and/or the […]

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 […]

NEW FACULTY POSITIONS IN COMPLEXITY SCIENCE University of Miami, Florida, USA The College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Miami seeks applicants and nominations for four faculty appointments in Complexity Science, including complex networks and complex systems, from disciplines across the physical, biological, computational, mathematical, statistical, medical, economic and social sciences. Successful candidates will join a vigorous research program already underway across […]