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Subject: [cormas_announcement] Post doc and PhD studentship in CPM
From: Francois Bousquet (francois.b@chula.ac.th)
Date: Mon Feb 14 2005 - 05:21:08 CET
>
> The Centre for Policy Modelling (CPM) in Manchester Metropolitan
> University is offering one post doctoral post and a second PhD
> studentship (one having already been awarded) to work on the 6th
> Framework CAVES Project. All posts are for three years from the 1st
March.
>
> CAVES (Complexity, Agents, Volatility, Evidence and Scale) is funded
> under the "Tackling Complexity" call the New and Emerging Science and
> Technology programme of DG Research. The project will develop models of
> evolving complex social networks -- these will be descriptions of real
> social networks that are either changing with changes in land use or
> constraining changes in land use in Scotland, Poland and South America.
> The project is building on the ground-breaking and highly successful
> FIRMA project and will further develop the use of stakeholder
> participation to design and validate the models. The models will be
> used to help stakeholders formulate expectations and negotiating
> positions and to understand others' negotiating positions. The project
> therefore combines complexity science with social policy analysis.
>
> The models will be programmed in Java and we are already developing Java
> packages to support qualitative, rulebased modelling. These packages
> are designed to be used with RePast, JavaSwarm, MASON or any other
> modelling and visualisation Java libraries.
>
> The post doctoral researcher and the PhD students will be expected to
> help administer the project.
>
> The CPM is a happy, informal, fairly chaotic but, we believe, very
> creative lab. We all collaborate on all projects and, provided our
> project commitments are being met, everyone is encouraged to pursue
> their personal research agenda as well. Research staff and students are
> accommodated (that is, overcrowded) together.
>
> If that sort of environment will appeal to you and, for the post doc,
> you have a recent PhD then visit http://www.cfpm.org/caves for the
> details of the job and the application procedure.
>
> For the studentship, if you have a recent research masters degree in
> computer, physical, biological, social, cognitive, behavioural or
> similar science, please email me at scott@cfpm.org.
>
> Both positions are available from the 1st March or as soon as possible
> thereafter. The deadline for applications for the post doctoral
> position is Wednesday 23rd February. Apologies for the shortness of the
> deadline -- we have only recently received the draft contract from the
> European Commission and we had to set the start date several months ago.
>
> The salary for the post doc will be in the range £20,540 - £25,432 pa
>
> --
> Professor Scott Moss
> Director
> Centre for Policy Modelling
> Manchester Metropolitan University
> Aytoun Building
> Manchester M1 3GH
> UNITED KINGDOM
>
> telephone: +44 (0)161 247 3886
> mobile: +44 (0)7740 942564
> fax: +44 (0)161 247 6802
>
> http://cfpm.org/~scott