Research Officer

University of Essex - ISER
Colchester - United Kingdom
S: £28,695-£31,342 per annum

The Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER) has a worldwide reputation as a multidisciplinary centre of quantitative social science research and as a producer of household panel data of the highest quality.
We wish to appoint a quantitative social scientist to the post of Research Assistant to work in the ESRC-funded Research Centre on Micro-Social Change (MiSoC). The successful candidate will provide research assistance and support to several senior members of the MiSoC team in order to contribute to several aspects of the MiSoC research programme. This research assistance will likely include preparation of data-sets, basic data analysis, and advanced statistical or econometric analysis, all using advanced statistical software, such as Stata. You will take part in other research activities, such as contributing to the writing of research papers.

Candidates should have a Masters degree or equivalent research experience, or a first class undergraduate degree in a social science. You should have experience of, or a demonstrable interest in, research areas that form part of the research programme of the ESRC Research Centre on Micro-Social Change. You should also have knowledge of quantitative methods for the analysis of survey data or other micro-data and the ability to interpret and analyse patterns or trends in data.

This post is a full-time, fixed-term post for 1 year in the first instance, however part-time hours will be considered at a minimum of 0.6 fte.

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