I would be grateful if you would draw to the attention of any suitable
candidates the advert given below for postdoc research fellowships at
Nuffield College, Oxford. Details can be found at
http://www.nuff.ox.ac.uk/General/jobs/prf2000/prfpartics.shtml
Thanks
Neil Shephard
JOB DESCRIPTION
Nuffield College intends to appoint, with effect from 1 October 2001, a
number of Postdoctoral Research Fellows. The number of appointments the
College makes will depend on the strength of the field. In 2000, there were
five such appointments.
The responsibility of a Research Fellow is to engage in post-doctoral
research. The main interests of the College are in Economics, Politics and
Sociology, but these are broadly construed to include, for example, recent
history, social and medical statistics, econometrics, international
relations, social psychology and social policy. The current research
subjects of College members are described in more detail below.
The Fellowships are intended for scholars from any country who at the time
of taking up the Fellowships will have completed, or be very close to the
completion of, a doctoral thesis, or be at a comparable point in a research
career. To be eligible, candidates should not by that date have spent more
than a total of eight years in postgraduate study in the social sciences
and/or in employment in a teaching or research post in the social sciences,
nor should they have previously held a research fellowship similar to that
advertised.
Applications should be sent to Alison Bateman, the Secretary of the PRF
Competition, Nuffield College, Oxford OX1 1NF, United Kingdom, to arrive by
24 November 2000. Please ask your referees to send references direct to the
Secretary of the PRF Competition, also to arrive by 24 November 2000. A
longlist of candidates will be asked to submit written work in early
December. A shortlist of candidates will be invited to visit the College on
either 30 January or 6 or 13 February 2001 to give a 30-minute seminar
presentation and to be interviewed. The College will pay all reasonable
expenses (including air fares) of candidates invited for interview.
Candidates will not be subject to any test of a religious, political or
racial character. Nuffield College is an Equal Opportunities Employer.
FURTHER INFORMATION
Nuffield is a postgraduate college within Oxford University specialising in
the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology. About
25 students are admitted each year with a total student body of about 90,
of whom about 75 are resident in College. It provides both for those taking
taught masters courses and for those undertaking research leading to a
doctorate. The College has 37 permanent Fellows, 26 Research Fellows, 3
Research Officers and 20 Visiting Fellows. About half the permanent Fellows
hold University posts.
The College is organised into three groups: economics, politics and
sociology. Almost all the Fellows and students are members of one of these
groups. In addition there is a small group of interdisciplinary students
whose research interests bridge the groups.
RESEARCH FACILITIES
The size and specialised nature of the College enable students to work
closely with one another and faculty members in a stimulating and
research-orientated environment. A ‘critical mass’ of students and staff
working in the social sciences is helpful both in terms of facilities and
of intellectual activity, such as the active seminar and conference
programme.
The College Library is one of the finest in the social sciences and
functions as a research library, reflecting the academic interests of the
Fellows. College spends some £250K per annum developing this facility. The
staff are active and supportive, and informed about electronic resources.
The Library is open shelf, and accessible 24 hours a day. And of course
Fellows also have access to all the facilities of the Bodleian Library.
Each Research Fellow is allocated a computer, printer and software suitable
for their research. All College offices, including those allocated to
students, are ethernetted. Other PCs are available within the College for
teaching, research, and word-processing, together with a wide range of
software. The College has an Information Systems Department to serve the
computing needs of Fellows and staff.
The College provides facilities and travel grants for Fellows to invite
academic visitors to the College to enable them to carry out collaborative
work, and there are generous funds for travel by Research Fellows to
present papers at conferences and engage in research. Standard academic
infrastructure expenses – telephone, fax, photocopying, stationery and
postage – are met by the College.
A list of the Fellows’ research areas are given below in order to give an
impression of the scope of the College’s interests.
The Economics Group
The current permanent members of the economics group, and their respective
research areas, are:
Mark Armstrong Incentive theory, the theory of regulation and the
telecommunications industry.
Christopher Bliss FBA International trade and protection, effects of
exchange rates; long-run income distribution in growing economies.
Bronwyn Hall Technological change; corporate finance; panel data models
(appointed until 2001)
David Hendry FBA Econometric theory; structural change; the econometrics of
economic policy.
Ian Jewitt Information and Incentives; Organisation design, especially in
the public sector; Auction Theory.
Paul Klemperer FBA Industrial economics theory and policy. Competition
policy. Microeconomic theory, especially auction theory
Margaret Meyer Internal organisation of firms; industrial economics;
incentives and contracts
John Muellbauer FBA Consumption; housing; structural change
Kevin Roberts Microeconomic theory. Welfare economics, social choice theory
and theoretical public economics.
Neil Shephard Econometric theory; time series and panel data; estimation
via simulation; finance.
The Warden, Tony Atkinson FBA, works on income distribution, public
finance, and economic policy design.
There are presently six Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the economists
group: Ola Elerian (Econometrics, simulation estimation, theory and
application of continuous time series models, discretely observed
diffusions for financial data), James Engle-Warnick (Computer Automated
Strategy Inference), Erik Eyster (Information Economics), Volker Nocke
(industrial economics – theory of industrial market structure), Ran
Speigler (microeconomic theory and procedural rationality), and Lucy White
(microeconomic theory).
Steven Bond works in the College as a part-time (with Institute of Fiscal
Studies) Research Fellow. His research areas are applied microeconometrics
and corporate taxation. Jurgen Doornik is employed by the College as an
ESRC supported Research Fellow. His research interest is econometric
computing. Hyun Shin is a Senior Research Fellow. His research areas are
Game theory: information and uncertainty; finance. Bent Nielsen is a
Research Fellow in econometrics. Richard Spady is a Senior Research Fellow.
His research areas are microeconometrics and its application to industrial
economics.
Economists at Nuffield currently serve as Editors of Review of Economic
Studies, Econometrics Journal, Rand Journal of Economics, Economic Journal,
and Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics.
There is a large group of economists who work in other Colleges and
Institutes around Oxford. From October 1998, the University has established
a Department of Economics, replacing the Institute of Economics and
Statistics as well as consolidating previous institutional support for
economics in the University. Details of the research carried out at the
Department can be found at the WWW page http://www.economics.ox.ac.uk.
The Politics Group
The current permanent members of the politics group, and their respective
research areas, are:
Geoff Evans Electorial behaviour and comparative political sociology
John Darwin The history of European imperialism, particularly the British
empire circa 1880-1970. The history and politics of decolonization.
Andrew Hurrell International Relations. Main interest in international
relations theory, particularly the history of thought about international
relations. Also the international relations of the developing world, with
special reference to Latin America.
Yuen Khong United States foreign policy, international relations theory,
and the international politics of the Asia Pacific.
Iain McLean Applications of rational choice theory to politicians,
bureaucrats and voters. Apportionment and redistribution. UK politics,
including elections and core-periphery relations. The political economy of
lobbying and the environment, including historical studies. Rollcall voting
in the House of Commons.
David Miller Political theory. Main interest in comparative political
theory, especially theories of social justice and equality, the ethics of
market economies, and the concepts of nationality and citizenship.
Subsidiary interest in the history of political thought from Hobbes onwards.
Clive Payne Statistical modelling of survey and aggregate data in politics
and sociology. Software for research application in social sciences.
Development of statistical software. Computer simulation of social and
political systems.
Jeremy Richardson European integration, especially the European policy
process, interest groups; comparative public policy; policy change; policy
implementation
Alec Stone Sweet Comparative Politics and International Relations.
Interests in comparative politics, law and courts, European integration,
and international relations theory.
Laurence Whitehead Recent work on international aspects of democratisation,
and on the relationship between democratisation and economic
liberalisation. Main focus on Latin America.
The Acting Warden (2000/2001), Byron Shafer American politics. Public
opinion and the strategic environment for politics, on structural change in
American political history, presidential nominations and elections.
There are at present three Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the politics
group: Steve Fisher (British politics, party preference structure), Karma
Nabulsi (patriotic politics), Stuart Soroka (media and politics,
comparative agenda setting.
Fellows are closely involved in research and teaching within the Politics
Sub-Faculty and its relevant specialised centres: for example the Centre
for European Politics, Economics and Society, the Centre for International
Studies and the Rothermere American Institute. Political scientists at
Nuffield currently serve as Editors of Electoral Studies, Journal of Latin
American Studies, West European Politics and Journal of European Public
Policy.
The Sociology Group
The current permanent members of the sociology group, and their respective
research areas, are:
Richard Breen Research in social stratification and inequality; the
application of rational choice models to sociological problems;
quantitative methods.
Lucy Carpenter Epidemiological research. Recent emphasis on occupational
epidemiology and, in particular, the use of routinely collected national
data for investigating the effect of social and occupational factors on
health. Statistical methods in epidemiological research.
David Firth Statistical theory and methods. Generalised linear models and
quasi-likelihood methods. Models for contingency tables. Smoothing,
especially of survey data.
Ray Fitzpatrick Medical sociology. Interests include the evaluation of
health care, the measurement of patient satisfaction, health status and
quality of life.
Duncan Gallie FBA Sociology of economic life. Research on employment
experience and attitudes to work; attitudes of social inequality; the
social implication of unemployment.
John Goldthorpe FBA A social stratification and comparative
macro-sociology. Research on comparative mobility patterns and class
structure in capitalist and state socialist societies. Also interest in the
theory of social action, especially rational choice theory, and the
methodology of comparative research.
Anthony Heath FBA Political sociology. Research on the determinants of
electoral behaviour; on class and educational opportunity; and on social
mobility.
Kenneth Macdonald Research methods and data analysis. Also theoretical work
on the normative assessment of actions. Software developments.
Megan Vaughan Social and economic history of Africa; developing societies;
gender and history. Recent work on history of famine, food supply, medicine
and nutrition in Africa. Current work on history of slavery in the Indian
Ocean.
There are at present four Postdoctoral Research Fellows in the sociology
group: Tarani Chandola (medical sociology), Alasdair Crockett (religious
pluralism and secularisation), James van de Werfhorst (Field of Study and
Labour Market Opportunities), and Meir Yaish (social stratification and
mobility).
Members of the Sociology Group are involved with a number of large-scale
funded research projects. These include the British Election Study, the
Employment in Britain Survey (now being replicated in Eastern Europe), a
multi-national study of emerging forms of political representation and
participation in Eastern Europe, the International Social Justice Project,
and a statistical project as part of the ESRC Analysis of Large and Complex
Datasets initiative.
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