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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. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%