[Air-l] Wanted: Social geographer & sociologist at Uni of Essex, UK

[Ben Anderson]

see especially post 2 relating to the SOCQUIT project (ICT & social 
capital & quality of life)

thanks
Ben

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> The University of Essex’s Chimera institute, based in Ipswich, wishes 
> to appoint two talented individuals to join a multidsiplinary team of 
> social and technical scientists.
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> We are looking for two quantitative social scientists, one with a 
> strong geographical background and the other with a strong 
> sociological background.
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> Ref. R/709 Quantitative Social Geographer: The postholder will work on 
> a commercially funded project to develop a spatial microsimulation 
> model of Britain (Whole Market Model project). This is a fixed term 
> post for 2 years in the first instance.
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> Ref. R/710 Quantitative Sociologist: The postholder will split their 
> time between the above project and an EU FP6 funded project on social 
> capital, quality of life and information technology (SOCQUIT project: 
> www.eurescom.de/socquit). This is a fixed term post for one year in 
> the first instance.
>
> Appointment to these posts, from 1 October 2005 or as soon as possible 
> thereafter, will be made in the range £19,460-£24,820 per annum 
> dependent on skills and experience.
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> For further details see 
> http://www.essex.ac.uk/personnel/Jobs/ads/R709Wcomp.htm