Dear HOT community, Please see below a research fellow position in an emerging research group at University of Warwick within a project on humanitarian mapping for improving slum health. We intend this project to run in close collaboration with HOT/Openstreetmap and applications from community members with the required profile are warmly welcome.
Best João PS: I'd be grateful if you can forward this to potentially interested. -- Senior Research Fellow in Geographic Information Science/Humanitarian Mapping Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies University of Warwick Salary: £39,324 - £46,925 pa. Fixed contract until 2 years. The Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies (CIM) is a cutting-edge teaching and research centre specialising in data and methodologies. We are looking for a full-time researcher to work with Dr João Porto de Albuquerque on a recently funded research unit aiming to improve the health of people who live in slums across Africa and Asia in collaboration with Professor Richard Lilford of the Warwick International Centre for Applied Health Research and Delivery (W- CAHRD), University of Warwick. Our research unit will focus on health services in slums. Many of the world’s poorest people live in slums, over-crowded neighbourhoods often made up of makeshift or derelict housing, without running water or sanitation. Slums house nearly a billion people and are growing, as more and more people are born and move to cities. However, there is little scientific understanding about current shortfalls in provision of healthcare in slums and how best to improve this situation. A major obstacle for this is the lack of geospatial data on slum urban infrastructure, healthcare services and facilities. In order to tackle this challenge, the research fellow will work with our team to develop innovative interdisciplinary methods to map geo-spatially current health service delivery arrangements and understand patterns of health service use (including equity of use) in slums in major and secondary cities. We will create accurate maps of slums in five cities and two continents, using collaborative and participatory mapping instruments that combine local information to ‘ground truth’ data generated from Earth-observation satellite imagery using open-source humanitarian mapping tools and volunteered geographic information (e.g. OpenStreetMap). Based at CIM, a dynamic and interdisciplinary research centre, this position is available immediately for an initial contract of 1-2 years, with funding already secured for a possible extension for another 2 years. You will undertake research and project management tasks, including development of methods for data acquisition, modelling and analysis, as well as delivering working papers related to the project to academic and policy audiences. You will benefit from working closely with a multi-disciplinary and cross-sectoral research team that includes world-leading researchers from the University of Warwick and other UK universities, as well as the international academic organisations African Population and Health Research Centre, the University of Ibadan, Independent University Bangladesh and Aga Khan University. You will have core skills in geospatial data analysis and Geographic Information Systems (GIS), including first-hand experience of empirical data collection, data processing, data analysis and modelling methodologies. Desirable characteristics include familiarity with open-source tools for humanitarian mapping (e.g. OpenStreetMap, ODK, Fieldpapers) and programming experience with spatial data (e.g. PostGIS, python and/or R). This position is directed to candidates who have recently completed a doctorate in geographic information science/GIS, quantitative geography, computer science, sociology other relevant discipline (i.e. postdocs). However, applications are welcomed from qualified individuals without a doctorate with the necessary skills and profile. Informal enquiries are welcome and should be directed to Dr João Porto de Albuquerque ([email protected]). Applications must be received by 4 August, 2017. Interviews will probably take place between 14 and 18 August, 2017. To get further details and apply please access: https://atsv7.wcn.co.uk/search_engine/jobs.cgi?owner=5062452&ownertype=fair&jcode=1659721&vt_template=1457&adminview=1 — Dr João Porto de Albuquerque Associate Professor | Director of the MsC Urban Informatics and Analytics Centre for Interdisciplinary Methodologies | University of Warwick Member of the Warwick Institute for the Science of Cities Coventry, UK CV4 7AL | T: +44 (0)24 765 72516 | e-mail: [email protected] Honorary Associate Professor | Dept. of Computer Systems | University of São Paulo, Brazil Visiting Professor | Chair of GIScience | Institute of Geography | Heidelberg University, Germany -- Web: http://warwick.ac.uk/jpdealbuquerque | Twitter: @SmartUrbanInfo <https://twitter.com/SmartUrbanInfo> Researchgate: http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Joao_De_Albuquerque2 Linkedin: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/joão-porto-de-albuquerque-4b92ab
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