Lectureship in Social Statistics and Data Science

50th Anniversary Lectureships - Sociology and Data Science
Salary:   £33,574 to £46,414 
Closing Date:   Sunday 03 July 2016
Interview Date:   To be determined. 
Reference:  AL08R

We are seeking an outstanding individual to join the Department of Sociology at Lancaster University. Candidates for this post must have excellent knowledge of a range of modern statistical methods appropriate to the social sciences and wish to apply that knowledge to research in the Department of Sociology. Applications, who will have a PhD, are particularly welcome from candidates with:

• Experience in working with administrative and survey datasets
• Experience or keen interest in a range of data linkage techniques.

Preference will be given to a candidate who can demonstrate a genuine interest and outline a research plan relevant to data-driven research that concerns the lives of children and families. The Department of Sociology is home to a new interdisciplinary Centre for Child and Family Justice Research and the individual will join that grouping. The Centre aims to achieve step-change in social research through collaboration with colleagues in Lancaster’s Data Science Institute. To strengthen this relationship, the successful candidate will also join Lancaster’s vibrant Data Science Institute.

You will be expected to outline a clear research plan and to demonstrate how you will contribute to REF 2020. Preference will be given to candidates with a track record of income generation and publication, who can work across disciplinary boundaries and have excellent communication skills. 

Lancaster Sociology is an exciting, research-oriented department and home to academics from a range of different original disciplines attracted by the stimulating ‘post-disciplinary’ intellectual environment. The Department was rated in the top three for sociology in the last UK Research Excellence Framework, rated the 26th best sociology department in the world, and our undergraduate programmes are consistently rated in the top ten in the UK. The Department practices a form of ‘public sociology’ that tries to investigate, protect and enhance the notion of the public interest in changing and often dangerous times.

Data Science is a key area of growth for Lancaster University and the Institute is founded on historic strengths in Computer Science, Statistics and Operational Research coupled with an outstanding track record in multidisciplinary research. Comprising more than 70 academics with existing expertise at Lancaster, the Data Science Institute is setting new global standards for contemporary data-driven research challenges in areas including data and society, justice, health, and the environment.

For informal discussion about this post please contact:
 

Professor Karen Broadhurst, Department of Sociology
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And /or: Professor Idris Eckley, Data Science Institute
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Find the Centre for Child and Family Justice at:http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/research/research-centres/centre-for-child-and-family-justice-research/

Find the Data Science Institute at: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/dsi/

Find the Department of Sociology at: http://www.lancaster.ac.uk/sociology/