Please see below for details of 5 PDRA positions (at the Universities of
Bristol, Cambridge, Lancaster, Oxford and Warwick). For those who are
interested, there is an opportunity to find out more on Wednesday 21st
March, at the University of Warwick
(http://www.i-like.org.uk/launch-day21st-march.html).
Postdoctoral Research Positions (5 Posts)
New Approaches to Bayesian Data Science: Tackling Challenges from the
Health Sciences
Research Associate, School of Mathematics, University of Bristol
Research Associate, MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
Senior Research Associate, Department of Mathematics and Statistics,
Lancaster University
Postdoctoral Research Assistant, Department of Statistics, University of
Oxford
Research Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of Warwick
Salary: £29,799 to £38,833
Closing Date: Thursday 26 April 2018
Interview Date: Friday 11 May 2018
We invite applications for Post-Doctoral Research Associates to join the
New Approaches to Bayesian Data Science: Tackling Challenges from the
Health Sciences programme. This is an exciting, cross-disciplinary
research project that will develop new methods for Bayesian statistics
that are fit-for-purpose to tackle contemporary Health Science
challenges: such as real-time inference and prediction for large scale
epidemics; or synthesizing information from distinct data sources for
large scale studies such as the UK Biobank. Methodological challenges
will be around making Bayesian methods scalable to big-data and robust
to (unavoidable) model errors.
This £3M programme is funded by EPSRC, and brings together research
groups from the Universities of Lancaster, Bristol, Cambridge, Oxford
and Warwick. We are seeking applications for five PDRA positions to
build a team that will work on developing new Bayesian and Computational
Statistical methods, motivated and applied to challenges from Health.
Active collaboration across the partner institutions, and with other
project partners, is expected. There is either a 4 or a 3 year position
available at each of these five partner institutions.
You should have, or be close to completing, a PhD in Statistics or a
related discipline. You will work directly with the investigators to
undertake and support the research necessary to achieve your
university's aims within the grant. This will include, for example,
publishing in leading statistical/application journals, presentation of
research at workshops and conferences, developing code implementing new
statistical methods, and active involvement in project meetings. You
will be experienced in one or more of the following areas: Bayesian
statistics, computational statistics, statistical machine learning,
statistical genetics, inference for epidemics. You will have
demonstrated the ability to develop new statistical methodology. We are
particularly keen to encourage applicants with strong computational
skills, and are looking to put together a team of researchers with
skills that cover theoretical, methodological and applied statistics. A
demonstrable ability to produce academic writing of the highest
publishable quality is essential.
The application process is being administered by Lancaster University,
apart from the vacancy at the University of Cambridge. Applicants must
apply through Lancaster University’s website
(https://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A2232) for the Lancaster,
Oxford, Bristol and Warwick posts. Please ensure you state clearly
which position or positions you wish to be considered for when applying.
For applications to the MRC Biostatistics Unit, University of Cambridge
vacancy please go to http://www.jobs.cam.ac.uk/job/16971/ and click on
the 'Apply' button. This will route you to the University's Web
Recruitment System, where you will need to register an account (if you
have not already) and log in before completing the online application form.
Candidates who are considering making an application are strongly
encouraged to contact Professor Paul Fearnhead
([log in to unmask]), Sylvia Richardson
([log in to unmask]), Christophe Andrieu
([log in to unmask]) , Chris Holmes ([log in to unmask]) or
Gareth Roberts ([log in to unmask]) to discuss the programme
in greater detail.
Position available: immediately for 4 years (posts at Bristol,
Cambridge, Lancaster and Warwick) or 3 years (post at Oxford)
We welcome applications from people in all diversity groups.
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