[Air-l] User needs in digital repositories job

[Mike Thelwall]

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Information Science
- to analyse user needs in digital repositories

A position has become available for a postdoctoral researcher to work on a
1-year project conducting analysing user needs in digital repositories. The
approach will combine qualitative and quantitative methods, employing both
colink analysis and interviews. The researcher will interview stakeholders
for a range of types of digital repositories in the UK and use automated
colink analyses to develop quantitative models of repository effectiveness
and user base.
	Applicants are required to have
*	A Ph.D. in Information Science
*	Experience of postdoctoral research
*	Experience of analysing interviews for research purposes
*	Knowledge or experience of webometrics, or link analysis
The project involves collaboration with another UK university and the
researcher should expect to have to travel extensively within the UK for
team meetings and conferences. Good communication and team working skills
are essential. The salary is expected to be £24,450 for the year and the
starting date is predicted to be 1 June 2005.
	
Please contact Mike Thelwall m.thelwall at wlv.ac.uk by 20 May 2005 to request
an application form or to express interest in the post.

The University is eager to attract larger numbers of applications from
groups of people currently under-represented in the staff population,
especially from women and people from ethnic minority groups.