Job Description

• Defining and executing the research agenda in partnership with the host universities and academic collaborators
• He/She will hire and then direct a small team of Intel researchers on-site for the combined Intel-University team, liaising with the assigned university program director and the ICRI Managing Sponsor
• He/She will initiate a research agenda leveraging state, EU level, and fellow-traveler industrial partner co scientific research projects to improve the sustainability of the world’s cities and fuel Intel’s growth with special attention to new business opportunities and technology transfer to Intel business units
• The PI is responsible for reporting on the progress and research results in semi-annual Institute program reviews.
• The PI is expected to work effectively with the multiple stakeholders within the Intel CRI program, including the co-PI from the university, the Executive Sponsor, the Steering Committee, the UCO Program Director and Program Managers, the Senior Sponsor of the host university, the members of Intel Labs Staff, the academic collaborators, and the research team themselves
• The Intel PI will report to the ICRI’s managing sponsor and may manage up to 3-4 Intel researchers

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University College London – UCL Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

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JOB DESCRIPTION

Department: Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis

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We are biased (being a Co-i) but the project is one of the most exciting pieces of research we have come across in a while and one we have been itching to blog about but unable to until we hit ‘beta’. We are working towards a late March preview, so if you would like to be the last member of the team, full details are below:

University of Salford
Research Fellow
“TOTeM: Tales of Things: Electronic Memory”
University of Salford – Faculty of Business,Law and the Built Environment

Ref: 1126787

£29,704 – £35,469 PA

Fixed Term for 2 years Full time

Applications are invited for a full time Research Fellow to undertake research within the context of a Digital Economy EPSRC funded project “TOTeM: Tales of Things: Electronic Memory”. The purpose of the project is to revolutionise existing social and business processes, using technologies available to us through the digital economy. The digital economy is defined by the Research Councils as “the novel design or use of information communication technologies to help transform the lives of individuals, society or business”. In this context the objectives for the TOTeM project are to provide the necessary platform for people to tag existing objects with stories that describe a personal and social value.

In addition, TOTeM also offers significant new avenues to business, both in terms of practice and in terms of gaining efficiency through time and cost savings. The use of tagging business objects creates the possibility of fundamental new applications and uses which will be explored and harnessed throughout this project. This aspect of the work will explore the impact of the digital economy on commercial organisations and has the potential to transform how businesses operate in the future.

This role will support and assist the work of Dr Maria Edith Burke on the TOTeM research project.

The successful applicant will be required to start ideally in March 2010 for 2 years, to work as FTE Research Fellow for the EPSRC funded TOTeM project.

To apply for this vacancy please visit: https://jobs.salford.ac.uk/vacancies.php

Closing date: 11 February 2010

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Set at once within one of North America’s most cosmopolitan cities and a preeminent research university, the Daniels Faculty uniquely combines the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design in undergraduate, professional, and post-professional programs. Daniels is invested in finding the intersections between nature, technology, architecture, and various geographies in a way that instantiates design to meet its contemporary challenges.

An emphasis on the connections between all of the design disciplines at work in the remaking of the built environment is apparent in the scholarly research and built work of many of its faculty. Daniels is particularly committed to exploring new modes of practice by drawing on the community of minds at the University of Toronto, thereby becoming a focal point for research and speculation on better ways to design and inhabit the built environment. Daniels enjoys significant ties with a number of adjacent disciplines within the university (engineering, geography and planning, art, literary studies, information, health) via both cross-disciplinary teaching appointments and various forms of research.

Following a decade-long transformation of its faculty and professional programs, and a recent major gift, plans are in place to both expand the school’s physical plant and to raise the ceiling of its curricular offerings to the doctoral and PhD levels.

(1) Applied Theories of Urbanism, Landscape, and/or Architecture (Job Number 0900826)
The Daniels Faculty would be an especially engaging environment for someone whose research explores the specificities of contemporary practice from a perspective that is both historically informed and theoretically acute.

Candidates would be expected to bring a substantial research program and to demonstrate not only an ability to fuse their agenda with the interests and commitments of the faculty, but to build new research capacities and relationships.

The search will focus on individuals with a demonstrable background in design and/or the built environment, including but not exclusive to architecture and landscape architecture, who possess a PhD (or one that is substantially complete) or doctoral credentials. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

(2) Histories and Practices of Architecture, Landscape, and/or Urbanism (Job Number 0900809)

The Daniels Faculty would be an especially engaging environment for someone whose research explores the historical underpinnings of design theory and practice. Candidates would be expected to bring a substantial research program and to demonstrate not only an ability to fuse their agenda with the interests and commitments of the faculty, but to build new research capacities and relationships.

The search will focus on individuals with training in the histories and theories of architecture, landscape architecture, and/or urbanism. Candidates are required to possess a PhD (or one that is substantially complete) and to give evidence of an active engagement in teaching and scholarship. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

We encourage you to submit your application online at http://www.jobs.utoronto.ca/faculty.htm providing the following:
1. curriculum vita
2. statement of research objectives
3. representative examples of publications, research, or design work
4. list of three potential references, including contact information

If you are unable to apply online, please send your submission, referencing the corresponding Job Number, to:

Richard M. Sommer, Dean
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
230 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R2
CANADA

Enquiries should be directed to Dean Sommer (dean@daniels.utoronto.ca, T 416 978 3089, F 416 971 2432).

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 30, 2009

The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

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Set at once within one of North America’s most cosmopolitan cities and a preeminent research university, the Daniels Faculty uniquely combines the disciplines of architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design in undergraduate, professional, and post-professional programs. Daniels is invested in finding the intersections between nature, technology, architecture, and various geographies in a way that instantiates design to meet its contemporary challenges.

An emphasis on the connections between all of the design disciplines at work in the remaking of the built environment is apparent in the scholarly research and built work of many of its faculty. Daniels is particularly committed to exploring new modes of practice by drawing on the community of minds at the University of Toronto, thereby becoming a focal point for research and speculation on better ways to design and inhabit the built environment. Daniels enjoys significant ties with a number of adjacent disciplines within the university (engineering, geography and planning, art, literary studies, information, health) via both cross-disciplinary teaching appointments and various forms of research.

Following a decade-long transformation of its faculty and professional programs, and a recent major gift, plans are in place to both expand the school’s physical plant and to raise the ceiling of its curricular offerings to the doctoral and PhD levels.

(1) Applied Theories of Urbanism, Landscape, and/or Architecture (Job Number 0900826)
The Daniels Faculty would be an especially engaging environment for someone whose research explores the specificities of contemporary practice from a perspective that is both historically informed and theoretically acute.

Candidates would be expected to bring a substantial research program and to demonstrate not only an ability to fuse their agenda with the interests and commitments of the faculty, but to build new research capacities and relationships.

The search will focus on individuals with a demonstrable background in design and/or the built environment, including but not exclusive to architecture and landscape architecture, who possess a PhD (or one that is substantially complete) or doctoral credentials. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

(2) Histories and Practices of Architecture, Landscape, and/or Urbanism (Job Number 0900809)

The Daniels Faculty would be an especially engaging environment for someone whose research explores the historical underpinnings of design theory and practice. Candidates would be expected to bring a substantial research program and to demonstrate not only an ability to fuse their agenda with the interests and commitments of the faculty, but to build new research capacities and relationships.

The search will focus on individuals with training in the histories and theories of architecture, landscape architecture, and/or urbanism. Candidates are required to possess a PhD (or one that is substantially complete) and to give evidence of an active engagement in teaching and scholarship. Salary and rank will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

We encourage you to submit your application online at http://www.jobs.utoronto.ca/faculty.htm providing the following:
1. curriculum vita
2. statement of research objectives
3. representative examples of publications, research, or design work
4. list of three potential references, including contact information

If you are unable to apply online, please send your submission, referencing the corresponding Job Number, to:

Richard M. Sommer, Dean
John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design
University of Toronto
230 College Street
Toronto, Ontario M5T 1R2
CANADA

Enquiries should be directed to Dean Sommer (dean@daniels.utoronto.ca, T 416 978 3089, F 416 971 2432).

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: November 30, 2009

The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from visible minority group members, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, members of sexual minority groups, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas. All qualified candidates are encouraged to apply; however, Canadians and permanent residents will be given priority.

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As such we thought, having gathered a notable readership, we would put out a call if any of you would like to write for the blog? We are looking for talented writers who love all stuff urban and digital, from CAD to panoramas through to timelapses and digital photography.

Does that sound like you? Do you log into digital urban each day to read the latest developments? If so here is what you need to do:

Writing:

Send us to two sample posts in a digital urban style, they can be about anything you want but need to be your own work. We wont use any of the samples here, it will just allow us to see if you have what we are looking for.

About You

A few words about yourself, contact info and how much time you can commit to writing posts. This is an unpaid gig, but hopefully having written for digital urban on your CV can only be a good thing…

Still interested? Then get in touch via the email on the Contact Us page.

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If you would like to become part of the CASA team then below are the details and how to reply:

Duties and Responsibilities

This is an ESRC-funded research position working on the Generative e-Social Science (GENeSIS) project. This post is funded until 30th September 2011. The main purpose of this post is to develop urban simulation models, specifically in London and the South East and to interface the model with CASA’s London database.

Key Requirements

The ideal candidate will have a PhD in a related area, substantial programming knowledge and considerable experience of working with large-databases. Modelling skills are essential (for example agent-based or land use modelling) and a background in Urban Studies (eg urban geography / urban economics) is highly desirable.

Further Details

An information pack containing further details of the project is available from the main application page.

Closing Date 23 Oct 2009
Latest time for the submission of applications midday.

Interview date Thursday 5th November 2009.

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School of Social Sciences, History and Philosophy

Department of Geography, Environment & Development Studies

Lecturer A in Geographic Information Science (GIS) Ref: 10275

Full time position, 3 years fixed term contract in the first instance

The Department of Geography is seeking to appoint a Lecturer in Geographic Information Science. We are looking for well-qualified candidates who have experience with GIS and competence in spatial statistics. An interest in programming is also desirable.

You should have a good first degree and a PhD in a relevant area, or be close to completion. Evidence of published research or exceptional potential is essential to this role. Teaching experience at degree level is also desirable.

Salary range: £33,501 rising to £38,376 per annum, inclusive of London Allowance.

This job is full time and fixed term for three years. The salary quoted above is inclusive of London allowance. The initial salary award will be dependent on the skills and experience of the successful applicant. The appointment may be subject to a probationary period of up to three years. Birkbeck also provides a generous final salary pension scheme, 31 days paid leave, flexible working arrangements and other great benefits.

The closing date for completed applications is Tuesday 22 July 2009.

Interviews are due to be held in the week commencing 3 August 2009.

Click here to apply for this post (Search using Ref No. 10275)

Birkbeck is an equal opportunities employer and encourages applications from all candidates irrespective of gender, ethnicity, age, disability, religious belief and sexual preference.

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Ref B239A (SAPL)
Faculty/Services Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Department School of Architecture, Planning & Landscape
Newcastle University, UK

Salary: £31,513 – £43,622 (with potential progression to £49,096)

Closing Date: 22 July 2009

The School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape http://www.apl.ncl.ac.uk is seeking to appoint a suitable qualified person from an academic background to be part of the academic team delivering the accredited planning programmes, related research and relevant consultancy.

The School welcomes all suitable applications but particularly from those with experience in one or more of the following: urban regeneration, spatial planning practice and theory, quantitative techniques/GIS.

Candidates wishing to discuss this post may contact:

John Pendlebury, Head of School on 0191 222 6810or by email: j.r.pendlebury@ncl.ac.uk
or Tim Townshend, Director of Planning and Urban Design, on 0191 222 7814 or by email: t.g.townshend@ncl.ac.uk

Full details are available from the Newacstle University job vacancy site:
http://www.ncl.ac.uk/vacancies/

Its quite a tempting job to be honest- talking of jobs, the closing date for the 7 positions working in CASA, 3 of which are directly with us here at digital urban, is Tuesday July 7th…

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