Dear all,
Please see the job advertisements below, several of which are specifically
for social scientists using multilevel/mixed modelling techniques.
- Malcolm



5 New Academic Posts in Quantitative Social Science at the University of
Bristol

1 Professor of Quantitative Methods / Social Statistics within the Centre
for Multilevel Modelling (
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=1501&nPostingTargetID=4974
)

1 Senior Lecturer/Reader of Quantitative Methods / Social Statistics within
the Centre for Multilevel Modelling (
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=1490&nPostingTargetID=4970
)

1 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Policy Studies with Quantitative Research
Methods (
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=1495&nPostingTargetID=4966
)

1 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Politics with Quantitative Research Methods
(
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=1496&nPostingTargetID=4962
)

1 Lecturer / Senior Lecturer in Sociology with Quantitative Research
Methods (
http://www.bristol.ac.uk/jobs/find/details.html?nPostingID=1497&nPostingTargetID=4955
)


The Faculty of Social Sciences and Law at the University of Bristol is
committed to a substantial expansion of its capacity in quantitative social
sciences and is launching an international search for five new members of
academic staff.

The two Professor/Reader posts are in any field of social sciences and on
appointment will be placed in the most appropriate School of the Faculty
according to the appointee’s expertise and experience. These posts will be
also based within the cross-Faculty Centre for Multilevel Modelling. We are
seeking internationally outstanding applicants with strong leadership and
collaborative experience, and an extensive track record of high quality,
large-scale grant-funded research, plus highly-ranked scholarly
publications. We are particularly looking for candidates with expertise in
multilevel modelling or other advanced quantitative methods development
used in the social sciences such as structural equation modelling, Bayesian
modelling or spatial modelling. Both posts will be involved in teaching and
supervision especially as part of the Advanced Quantitative Methods Pathway
of the South West Doctoral Training Centre.

The Lecturer/Senior Lecturer posts are to support Bristol’s new Q-Step
centre, one of fifteen such centres funded across the UK by the Nuffield
Foundation, ESRC and HEFCE, with a remit to promote a step-change in the
quality of quantitative methods teaching and learning for undergraduate
social science students (see http://www.nuffieldfoundation.org/q-step)
Under this initiative we are seeking to appoint three new academic staff,
two in the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies (SPAIS),
and one in the School for Policy Studies (SPS). An essential pre-requisite
for any applicant is a passion for using quantitative data to explore and
to answer research questions of relevance to the social sciences, and a
desire to nurture a similar excitement in undergraduate and postgraduate
students.

All appointees will join the newly formed Collaborative Network for
Quantitative Social Science at Bristol within which they will be encouraged
to pursue cross-disciplinary research projects. The University of Bristol
also hosts the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC),
known popularly as "Children of the 90s”. This is a world leading birth
cohort study, and we are keen to develop new social science research based
on ALSPAC data.

The closing date for applications is midnight 16th January 2014. It is
expected that interviews will be held during February and March. The
proposed start date for the posts is 1st August 2014.

To discuss any of these roles, please see the additional information in the
further particulars.

[Note for overseas candidates familiar with US job titles that at Bristol
lecturer level is equivalent to Assistant Professor, senior lecturer/reader
equivalent to Associate Professor and Professor equivalent to Full
Professor.]

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