Assistant Professor in Statistics, Department of Statistics, London School of Economics and Political Science

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Department of Statistics
Assistant Professor in Statistics

Salary is competitive with Departments at our peer institutions worldwide and not less than £53,905 pa inclusive
Applications for this new post are invited from outstanding candidates in the field of Statistics. Successful candidates will join an established and successful department and contribute to its research and teaching in social statistics. The post is tenable from 1st September 2018. You will maintain an active programme of research and contribute to the general work of the department, including the teaching of a range of courses in Statistics.

You will have an established track record of research at a level of international excellence as well as a completed (or near-completed) PhD in Statistics or a related subject, by the post start date. You will also have a clear, well developed and viable strategy for future outstanding research that has the potential to result in world-leading publications. You will also have experience of undertaking research in statistical methodology which has applications in the social or behavioural sciences or public policy (including, but not limited to, survey methodology, causal inference, latent variable and multilevel modelling, categorical data analysis, and social network analysis).
The other criteria that will be used when shortlisting for this post can be found on the person specification, which is attached to this vacancy on the LSE’s online recruitment system. In addition to a competitive salary the benefits that come with this job include an occupational pension scheme, a research incentive scheme with personal reward options, generous research leave (sabbatical) entitlement, a collegial faculty environment and excellent support, training and development opportunities.

For further information about the post, please see the how to apply document, job description and the person specification.

To apply for this post, please go to www.lse.ac.uk/LSEJobs. If you have any technical queries with applying on the online system, please use the “contact us” links at the bottom of the LSE Jobs page. Should you have any queries about the role, please email I.Noble-Andolfo@lse.ac.uk.

The closing date for receipt of applications is 22nd October 2017 (23.59 UK time). We are unable to accept any late applications.