[Air-l] PhD studentship in 'Digital UK Data' available at Chimera, University of Essex, UK

[Maciej Kos]

That is a really interesting opportunity. I wish I lived in the UK...

Do you guys know of any web sites similar to jobs.ac.uk? For example US,
Scandinavia (or Europe in general) or Asia equivalents?

Thanks for sharing.
M.


On Mon, 17 Jul 2006 11:30:35 +0100, Ben Anderson wrote
> Please forward as you see fit.
> 
> Please note that qualification for this form of award is dependent 
> on  the candidate being a UK national or a non-UK EU national having 
> been  resident in the UK for three or more years prior to appointment.
> 
> regards
> Ben
> 
> http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/AF147.html
> 
> "PhD Industrial CASE Studentship
> Digital UK Data: Re-using data from personal health and wellbeing  
> technologies for social research
> Institute for Socio-technical Innovation & Research (Chimera)
> Applications are invited for this PhD studentship, jointly sponsored 
>  by the EPSRC and British Telecommunications plc (BT), and 
> supervised  by Dr Ben Anderson. The studentship provides an 
> opportunity to carry  out research and industrial training in a 
> three-year programme  leading to a PhD.
> 
> One of the greatest challenges facing governments and society today  
> is improving the health of the population while reducing the costs  
> and burden on health sector resources. Empowering people (and  
> organisations) to take greater ownership of their health, wellbeing  
> and lifestyle is an essential precursor to achieving that goal.  
> Today's emerging telecare technologies are early enablers for such  
> empowerment and, over the coming years, assistive technologies will  
> become commonplace as society grows more conscious of long-term  
> health and lifestyle.
> 
> Implicit in the growing use of assistive technology is the wide 
> scale  deployment of technologies that capture data on relevant 
> human  activities and behaviours, ostensibly for the purposes of the 
> health  and lifestyle related services. However, that behavioural 
> data  contains an information richness that has value in a diversity 
> of  sectors in addition to health. The objective of this research 
> program  is to explore the potential academic, commercial and policy 
> value of  analysis of this data for purposes other than pure 
> healthcare.  Attention will be given to issues of confidentiality, 
> security, data  protection and ethics as well as potentially 
> experimenting with new  analytic and data visualisation techniques. 
> Part of the research will  also assess the potential value of such 
> analyses to a range of market  sectors and carry out investigative 
> fieldwork with appropriate  households using mixed- method 
> approaches. It is anticipated that  behavioural data collected in 
> the University's innovative i- Dorm  facility (see http://digital-
> lifestyles.essex.ac.uk/) and through a  number of innovative BT 
> trials will also be available for  experimental analysis.
> 
> Whilst the successful candidate will be based at Chimera at Adastral 
>  Park, Suffolk, time will also be spent working within the BT 2010 
>  research activity (who are also located at Adastral Park) gaining 
>  industrial experience and access to unique datasets and 
> technologies.  Chimera also supports full interaction with 
> departments and research  activities on the main University of Essex 
> campus at Colchester. For  further information about Chimera, please 
> see: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ chimera
> 
> The studentship offers funding for a period of three years for  
> research towards a PhD starting as soon as possible, on or after, 1  
> October 2006. It covers fees and a tax-free stipend of around Ł17,
> 300  in the first year, rising in future years.
> 
> Applications are invited from graduates with a first or upper second 
>  class degree (or equivalent) in Sociology, Human and Health 
> Sciences,  Management, Law, Computer Science or other demonstrably 
> relevant  programme. Candidates with an additional Masters level 
> qualification  in a relevant area are encouraged to apply.
> 
> Desirable experience, skills and attributes of the post holder would 
>  also include one or more of the following:
> 
>      * Socio-technical, legal or ethical issues of information and  
> communication technologies
>      * Experience of qualitative and quantitative data collection 
> and  analysis     * An interest in behavioural data visualisation
> 
> Please note that qualification for this form of EPSRC award is  
> dependent on the candidate being a UK national or a non-UK EU  
> national having been resident in the UK for three or more years 
> prior  to appointment.
> 
> For informal enquires, please contact Dr Ben Anderson, e-mail:  
> benander at essex.ac.uk
> 
> Formal applications should be in writing to:
> Mrs A. Lealman,
> Chimera, University of Essex,
> pp1 Ross Building,
> Adastral Park,
> Ipswich,
> Suffolk
> 
> Applicants should supply a full CV, a covering letter which should  
> explain their suitability for the studentship and a 1 page statement 
>  of their proposed research in response to the above information.
> 
> The closing date for applications is Friday 11 August 2006 "
> 
> ----
> Dr Ben Anderson
> Deputy Director, Chimera, University of Essex
> +44 (0) 7710 187 806
> http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~benander
> 
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