GIS Research Assistant / Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Liverpool, UK

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12 Month Post (£26,264 - £31,331 pa)

You will provide principal research support for a recently funded project led by Dr Alex Singleton under an ESRC Research award.

You will be joining a large team of GIS postdoctoral and doctoral researcher within the Department of Geography and Planning and will explore the extent to which retail centres are exposed to consumers who are heavily engaged with information and communication technologies and the virtual retail channels that these enable.

You should have a PhD or Masters degree in Computer Science, Geographic Information Science, or the broader Social Sciences (with a quantitative focus). Experience manipulating large datasets and some programming experience would also be advantageous.

Commercial partners on this project are the Local Data Company (http://www.localdatacompany.com)

More details and job the full description are available here: http://www.liv.ac.uk/working/jobvacancies/currentvacancies/research/r-584677/

Closing date for receipt of applications: Fri, 06 Dec 2013 17:00:00 GMT