About the role
As Research Fellow, you will become an active member of the research project ‘COREX: From correlations to explanations: towards a new European prehistory’. In particular, you will focus on Work Package 3 (Exploratory analyses and discriminative models), as well as Work Package 4 (Generative models and explanations). Work Package 3 will take advantage of the ‘Big Interdisciplinary Archaeological Database’ (BIAD) – created as part of Work Package 1 – to explore patterns of co-variation in genetic, archaeological and environmental data using a range of statistical methods. Work Package 4 will take a ‘bottom up’ approach through agent-based and related modelling approaches to better understand how large-scale processes such as mass migration emerge from small-scale / more local processes and interactions ( identity signalling), and the extent to which we would expect patterns of genetic and cultural variation to be linked in space and through time.
This role is on an open-ended contract starting from 01st November and funded until 30th April in the first instance.
Please note that appointment at Grade 7 is dependent upon having been awarded a PhD; if this is not the case, initial appointment will be at Grade 6B with payment at Grade 7 being backdated to the date of final submission of the PhD Thesis.
Interview Date(s) are scheduled for May / June .
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About you
We will consider candidates with a PhD or similar in computational science or mathematics, and an interest in ancient DNA and archaeology, or candidates with a PhD or similar in a biological science, archaeology or geography, and relevant experience in computational modelling and / or model-based statistical inference. For more details on the person specification, please refer to the job description and person specification that can be accessed at the bottom of this page.
What we offer
As well as the exciting opportunities this role presents, we also offer some great benefits some of which are below:
• 41 Days holiday (27 days annual leave 8 bank holiday and 6 closure days)
• Additional 5 days’ annual leave purchase scheme
• Defined benefit career average revalued earnings pension scheme (CARE)
• Cycle to work scheme and season ticket loan
• Immigration loan
• Relocation scheme for certain posts
• On-Site nursery
• On-site gym
• Enhanced maternity, paternity and adoption pay
• Employee assistance programme: Staff Support Service
• Discounted medical insurance