Duties and Responsibilities

Applications are invited for the position of Researcher Technician l leader within an interdisciplinary research team at UCL to play a role in the ERC funded project ECSAnVis. The project takes the ambitious step of developing geographical analysis and visualisation tools that can be used, successfully, by people with limited literacy, in a culturally appropriate way. The project includes working with marginalised, non-literate communities in remote areas (e.g. Cameroon rainforest) with the aim to enable them to conduct their own environmental monitoring or mapping. For more information, see papers by Stevens et al. 2014 and Vitos et al. 2017.

The successful candidate will join a team of anthropologists, geo-information scientists, human-computer interaction experts and computer scientists and will support the research efforts undertaken within the scope of this project. Please visit the following links for more information on the ExCiteS research group and ECSAnVis.

The post is commencing on the 1st December 2018 and is offered for 24 months in the first instance.

Key Requirements

The successful applicant will need to have and MSc and/or PhD degree in relevant subject (e.g. Computer Science,  Geographical Information Science, Human Computer Interaction) or relevant work experience.

They will also have the ability to write well-documented and maintainable code using state-of-the-art architecture and frameworks as well as experience with REST APIs and of various aspects of data management and SQL databases.

Please see the following website for more details: link here