3 Year Postdoctoral Position: Frontier Methods for the Evaluation of Health Interventions
UCD Geary Institute
The Centre for Behaviour and Health at the UCD Geary Institute, Ireland is seeking to recruit one post-doctoral researcher to work on a new HRB sponsored programme focused on developing and testing new statistical methods for analysing experimental and quasi-experimental data.
Activities
As a post-doctoral researcher on this project you will be responsible for managing the research activity of the programme, including developing the methodological framework, disseminating in peer-review journals and directing the research assistant. The post has no teaching obligations. The programme primarily involves developing techniques to address the prevalent issues in experimental design, namely small sample inference, multiple-hypotheses testing, estimating non-standard treatments effects, and dealing with attrition and missing data. The second area of work involves using new experimental data to test the validity of a range of non-experimental and quasi-experimental methods and to quantify the different sources of bias typically found when using such methods.
Qualifications
Given the methodological nature of this project, candidates must have a strong and demonstrable knowledge of statistical and quantitative skills
Candidates must have completed, or is close to completing, a Ph.D. in Econometrics, Statistics, Mathematics, Epidemiology or a related discipline
Candidates must be experienced in programming skills (STATA, SAS, FORTRAN or another equivalent statistical programme)
Proven ability to develop and implement new methodologies
Experience of writing research papers, reports and dissertations
The post is located within the Institute’s Centre for Behaviour and Health, see http://geary.ucd.ie/behaviour/ for information on the centre.
The post is for three years and salary ranges between €35,609 and €46,395 p.a. commensurate with experience and qualifications.
Please be advised the closing dates for receipt of all applications for this post is 26th September 2008
We would envisage that the position would commence late October 2008.
Informal inquiries may be made to:
Dr Orla Doyle
Telephone: +353 1 716 4637
E-mail: orla.doyle@ucd.ie
Applications should be e-mailed to janice.cassidy@ucd.ie and include:
1) a covering letter
2) a CV with contact details of two referees
3) a sample of written work.
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The University
University College Dublin is a large and diverse university whose origin dates back to 1854. There are over 20,000 students based in five colleges. The University strives to achieve the highest standards in the advancement of knowledge through research and scholarly publications. It communicates that knowledge to successive generations of students through excellence in teaching. The University also makes an active contribution to the interests and development of the wider community - regional, national and international. The university is situated on a large modern campus about 4km to the south of the centre of Dublin. Further information on the University is available at www.ucd.ie .
Status: Researcher
Minimum Experience: 1 years
Maximum Experience: 2 years
Location: Dublin, IRELAND
Remuneration: 35609 - 46395 Euro/year
Advert Published: 2 Sep 2008
Expiry date: 26 Sep 2008
UCD Geary Institute Ref. No.:
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