The Centre for Policy Modelling (CPM) in Manchester Metropolitan
University is offering one post doctoral post and a second PhD
studentship (one having already been awarded) to work on the 6th
Framework CAVES Project. All posts are for three years from the 1st March.
CAVES (Complexity, Agents, Volatility, Evidence and Scale) is funded
under the "Tackling Complexity" call the New and Emerging Science and
Technology programme of DG Research. The project will develop models of
evolving complex social networks -- these will be descriptions of real
social networks that are either changing with changes in land use or
constraining changes in land use in Scotland, Poland and South America.
The project is building on the ground-breaking and highly successful
FIRMA project and will further develop the use of stakeholder
participation to design and validate the models. The models will be
used to help stakeholders formulate expectations and negotiating
positions and to understand others' negotiating positions. The project
therefore combines complexity science with social policy analysis.
The models will be programmed in Java and we are already developing Java
packages to support qualitative, rulebased modelling. These packages
are designed to be used with RePast, JavaSwarm, MASON or any other
modelling and visualisation Java libraries.
The post doctoral researcher and the PhD students will be expected to
help administer the project.
The CPM is a happy, informal, fairly chaotic but, we believe, very
creative lab. We all collaborate on all projects and, provided our
project commitments are being met, everyone is encouraged to pursue
their personal research agenda as well. Research staff and students are
accommodated (that is, overcrowded) together.
If that sort of environment will appeal to you and, for the post doc,
you have a recent PhD then visit http://www.cfpm.org/caves for the
details of the job and the application procedure.
For the studentship, if you have a recent research masters degree in
computer, physical, biological, social, cognitive, behavioural or
similar science, please email me at [log in to unmask]
Both positions are available from the 1st March or as soon as possible
thereafter. The deadline for applications for the post doctoral
position is Wednesday 23rd February. Apologies for the shortness of the
deadline -- we have only recently received the draft contract from the
European Commission and we had to set the start date several months ago.
The salary for the post doc will be in the range £20,540 - £25,432 pa
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Professor Scott Moss
Director
Centre for Policy Modelling
Manchester Metropolitan University
Aytoun Building
Manchester M1 3GH
UNITED KINGDOM
telephone: +44 (0)161 247 3886
mobile: +44 (0)7740 942564
fax: +44 (0)161 247 6802
http://cfpm.org/~scott
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