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Kingston University Vacancy Number: 08/160 Faculty: Science School: Geography, Geology and the Environment Job Title: Research Associate Salary: £24,363 - £27,919 pa inc Grade: 6 Hours: 37 hours per week Closing Date: 12 noon on 6 June 2008 Interviews: Week commencing 16th June 2008 Special Points: 12 month fixed term appointment from 1st July 2008 Kingston University seeks to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to work on an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project that will deliver a ‘Web-based Spatio-temporal Interpolator for Census Area Statistics’ as a demonstrator system. The GIS-based system will enable registered users of existing and future census related data resources to perform an integrated set of spatial analytic procedures in order to generate consistent spatial units spanning recent British censuses based on Census Output Area geography and associated estimates of census counts. The project has been funded under the ESRC/JISC Census Development Programme. The researcher will be based in the Centre for Earth and Environmental Sciences Research, School of Earth Sciences and Geography and work with Nigel Walford, Professor of Applied GIS. The Research Associate is required to take charge of the project on a day- to-day basis under the direction of the Principal Investigator; to be responsible for developing and programming the web-based demonstrator system; to collaborate with other project teams in the Census Development Programme and the Census Data Units; and to contribute to writing web pages and other dissemination activities. The post would suit an experienced postdoctoral researcher and applicants should have a relevant postgraduate qualification, preferably a PhD or will have completed one before commencing the post. The researcher should have experience of programming with C++, ArcIMS, SQLServer or similar, sound knowledge of proprietary GIS software and good general ICT skills preferably with an interest in web-based GIS. The person should also have experience with digital census boundary data and statistics, and the application of relevant spatial analysis tools/techniques. Informal enquiries are welcome and should be directed to Prof. Nigel Walford, Professor of Applied GIS, [log in to unmask] (020 8547 7512). For further information, or to apply online, visit our website www.kingston.ac.uk/jobs or alternatively call the recruitment line on 020 8547 7153 quoting reference 08/160 If you are a minicom user, please phone 020 8547 7169. To unsubscribe or modify your gis-jobs settings, please visit: http://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/gis-jobs