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Part-time Postgraduate Research Assistant - PolicyGrid NCeSS
Node
Computing Science, University of Aberdeen
£22,540 - £23,913 per annum pro rata
Computing Science invites applications for the above post,
to work
on a project funded by the ESRC eSocial Science Programme.
PolicyGrid (www.policygrid.org) is one of the ESRC National
Centre
for eSocial Science research nodes. The Node’s research
agenda
assists the social science community to exploit the full
potential
of emerging Semantic Web technologies and standards in the
Grid
context. The Node brings computer scientists and social
scientiststogether to focus on the challenges of using
Semantic
Grid technologies to enable more powerful analysis of
mixed-method
data (e.g. surveys and interviews, case studies,
simulations) thus
adding significant value to the workof social scientists
engaged
in the creation and analysis of evidence bases for policy
development and evaluation.The postgraduate research
assistant
will be part of a larger team, and will focus on the
development
of semantic grid infrastructure and lightweight metadata
(ontology
+ folksonomy) support for management of social science
datasets.
You should have an excellent Honours degree in Computer
Science or
a related discipline, and preferably an MSc. You are
expected to
be a competent programmer in Java, and have
knowledge/experience
of distributed information management (including
ontologies).
Prior knowledge in the area of social science is not
essential,
but would be anasset. The post will involve
conceptual/theoretical
work, and also implementation of software. Ideally you will
have
some knowledge and experience of Web/Grid services and
e-science.
The post is offered for 24 months on a part time (50% FTE)
basis.
If appointed, it is a condition that you will be required
to
undertake postgraduate research leading to a higher degree,
in an
area related to the research activities of the PolicyGrid
Node.
Informal enquiries can be made to:
Dr Peter Edwards (PolicyGrid Node Director)
pedwards csd.abdn.ac.uk
Online application forms and further particulars are
available
from www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs. Alternatively email jobsabdn.ac.uk or
telephone (01224) 272727 (24-hour answering service)
quoting
reference number YCS058R for an application pack.
The closing date for the receipt of applications is 8
February
2007
Promoting Diversity and Equal Opportunities throughout the
University
--
Dr. Jeff Z. Pan (http://www.csd.abdn.
ac.uk/~jpan/)
Department of Computing Science, The University of Aberdeen
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