Two lectureships in Statistics at Lancaster University

Two lectureships in Statistics (Ref A074)
Salary: £30,747-£35,646
Closing date: 9 August 2010
Interview date: early September 2010

Applications are invited for two lectureships in Statistics within the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Lancaster University, to start from 1 January 2011.

We are looking for applications from candidates with a promising research record and an interest in statistical methods for use in industry, medicine or social science.

Candidates must be able to contribute significantly to the Department's teaching and to supervise PhD students and research associates.
Informal enquiries can be made to Professor Brian Francis (b.francis@lancaster.ac.uk)

Using blog analysis: New Realities toolkit

Expert advice, suggestions and tips on using blogs to collect data for your research.

New Realities working paper: Bringing things back to life

Tim Ingold argues that thinking of our world as full of discrete 'objects' limits our thinking and that we should instead think of ourselves living within a world of 'things': messy, moving, and continually changing.

MLwiN 2.20 release

The Centre for Multilevel Modelling would like to announce our latest MLwiN
release - 2.20. Some minor new features/bug fixes have been introduced, eg,
Fixed bug in MOVE command with non-default column names, also MCMC seed menu
option now applies to macros too. For further details of the features and bug
fixes go to
http://www.cmm.bristol.ac.uk/MLwiN/bugs/fixes.shtml.

Realcom and Realcom-Impute updated

Our Realcom and Realcom-Impute applications have been updated. (REALCOM =
"Developing multilevel models for REAListically COMplex social science data").
Realcom and Realcom-Impute are free downloadable applications to enhance MLwiN
under certain conditions - for further details go to our Realcom
(http://www.cmm.bristol.ac.uk/research/Realcom/index.shtml)and Realcom-Impute
(http://www.cmm.bristol.ac.uk/research/Realcom/imputation.shtml) pages.

New Realities toolkit: Using email interviews

In this toolkit, Lucy Gibson discusses her experiences of using email interviews as part of a mixed-method study. Includes guidance, tips and suggestions for researchers interested in using this approach in their work.

'Ups and downs' of friendship - Realities research on Woman's Hour

Carol Smart from Realities talks about research done as part of the Critical Associations project on Woman's Hour. The research used a Mass Observation directive to understand some of the negative aspects of friendship which can be hard to access than the positive ones.

Research Fellow vacancy at S3RI

Location: Southampton Statistical Sciences Research Institute (S3RI), University of Southampton
Salary: £27,319 - £33,600

Applications are invited for a two-year, full-time research fellowship post to provide research support to Professors Danny Pfeffermann and Patrick Sturgis, and Drs. Dave Holmes and Pedro Silva in relation to a Research Project on "Fitting Models to Complex Survey Data: Which Approach Should We Follow and What is Required?". This project is supported by a grant from the ESRC and is aimed to develop clear guidance to researchers and practitioners on which approach they can use for modelling different survey data sets, how it should be implemented, inference possibilities, software availability, and where more than one approach is feasible, to discuss the theoretical and practical advantages of one approach over the others for specific applications.

Exit polling explained - by David Firth

Professor David Firth from University of Warwick Department of Statistics, who is also a co-investigator at one of NCRM nodes, has created a very useful website explaining the main ideas and concepts behind the new exit polling methods at elections.

Professor Firth's methods were used to make "spot on" predictions for BBC and ITV in 2005 and 2010 general elections.

MLwiN 2.19 released

The Centre for Multilevel Modelling would like to announce our latest MLwiN release - 2.19. Some bugs have been fixed, eg, a problem with loading text columns from Stata data files has been fixed.