Please forward as you see fit. Please note that qualification for this form of award is dependent on the candidate being a UK national or a non-UK EU national having been resident in the UK for three or more years prior to appointment. regards Ben http://www.jobs.ac.uk/jobfiles/AF147.html "PhD Industrial CASE Studentship Digital UK Data: Re-using data from personal health and wellbeing technologies for social research Institute for Socio-technical Innovation & Research (Chimera) Applications are invited for this PhD studentship, jointly sponsored by the EPSRC and British Telecommunications plc (BT), and supervised by Dr Ben Anderson. The studentship provides an opportunity to carry out research and industrial training in a three-year programme leading to a PhD. One of the greatest challenges facing governments and society today is improving the health of the population while reducing the costs and burden on health sector resources. Empowering people (and organisations) to take greater ownership of their health, wellbeing and lifestyle is an essential precursor to achieving that goal. Today's emerging telecare technologies are early enablers for such empowerment and, over the coming years, assistive technologies will become commonplace as society grows more conscious of long-term health and lifestyle. Implicit in the growing use of assistive technology is the wide scale deployment of technologies that capture data on relevant human activities and behaviours, ostensibly for the purposes of the health and lifestyle related services. However, that behavioural data contains an information richness that has value in a diversity of sectors in addition to health. The objective of this research program is to explore the potential academic, commercial and policy value of analysis of this data for purposes other than pure healthcare. Attention will be given to issues of confidentiality, security, data protection and ethics as well as potentially experimenting with new analytic and data visualisation techniques. Part of the research will also assess the potential value of such analyses to a range of market sectors and carry out investigative fieldwork with appropriate households using mixed- method approaches. It is anticipated that behavioural data collected in the University's innovative i- Dorm facility (see http://digital-lifestyles.essex.ac.uk/) and through a number of innovative BT trials will also be available for experimental analysis. Whilst the successful candidate will be based at Chimera at Adastral Park, Suffolk, time will also be spent working within the BT 2010 research activity (who are also located at Adastral Park) gaining industrial experience and access to unique datasets and technologies. Chimera also supports full interaction with departments and research activities on the main University of Essex campus at Colchester. For further information about Chimera, please see: http://www.essex.ac.uk/ chimera The studentship offers funding for a period of three years for research towards a PhD starting as soon as possible, on or after, 1 October 2006. It covers fees and a tax-free stipend of around £17,300 in the first year, rising in future years. Applications are invited from graduates with a first or upper second class degree (or equivalent) in Sociology, Human and Health Sciences, Management, Law, Computer Science or other demonstrably relevant programme. Candidates with an additional Masters level qualification in a relevant area are encouraged to apply. Desirable experience, skills and attributes of the post holder would also include one or more of the following: * Socio-technical, legal or ethical issues of information and communication technologies * Experience of qualitative and quantitative data collection and analysis * An interest in behavioural data visualisation Please note that qualification for this form of EPSRC award is dependent on the candidate being a UK national or a non-UK EU national having been resident in the UK for three or more years prior to appointment. For informal enquires, please contact Dr Ben Anderson, e-mail: benander@essex.ac.uk Formal applications should be in writing to: Mrs A. Lealman, Chimera, University of Essex, pp1 Ross Building, Adastral Park, Ipswich, Suffolk Applicants should supply a full CV, a covering letter which should explain their suitability for the studentship and a 1 page statement of their proposed research in response to the above information. The closing date for applications is Friday 11 August 2006 " ---- Dr Ben Anderson Deputy Director, Chimera, University of Essex +44 (0) 7710 187 806 http://privatewww.essex.ac.uk/~benander