Postdoctoral Research Associate / Programmer - Geographic Information Science (University of Liverpool, Department of Geography and Planning). £31,644 - £36,661 pa.

Funded by the ESRC until the 13th February 2019 in the first instance.

This role will provide programming support to the programme of service delivery and research. The vast majority of application development will be online, so we would be especially interested in hearing from individuals with web development experience. Furthermore, we will be developing a number of web mapping applications, and experience of developing interfaces to spatial data within online environments would be highly desirable.

For more details about this post see: http://geographicdatascience.com/job/2014/05/28/Job-Programmer/

For further details please contact: Dr Alex Singleton (alex.singleton@liverpool.ac.uk)

Closing date for receipt of applications: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 17:00:00 BST

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As part of a major investment in the acquisition, management and analysis of Big Data, the ESRC is investing £6 million over five years in the Retail Business Datasafe (RBDS), based at University College London (UCL) in partnership with the University of Liverpool and the University of Oxford. In addition to a freestanding programme of research into the retail sector, the RBDS will work in partnership with the University of Leeds to create the Consumer Data Research Centre (CDRC).