Research Fellow in Forecasting Consumer Trends
- Employer
- Global Academy Jobs
- Location
- United Kingdom
- Closing date
- Mar 14, 2017
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- Sector
- Business and Finance, Science, Environmental Sciences, Social and Behavioral Sciences, Geography, Sociology
- Hours
- Full Time
- Organization Type
- University and College
- Jobseeker Type
- Academic (e.g. 'Lecturer')
Job Details
PIGSustain is a multi-disciplinary, cross-institution collaborative project with multiple work packages in epidemiology and statistics, consumer data analysis, agricultural economics, and vision engineering/machine learning. This work package is part of a systems approach to understand how intensification, climate change, global production and consumer demand will impact on the UK pig industry.
You will work as part of a team and be responsible for forecasting consumer trends, collecting and synthesising datasets containing information about consumer expenditure patterns, attitudes and demographics as well as information about historic trends in price. Using appropriate statistical methods, you will assess the propensity to purchase products in relation to underlying drivers of price and consumer behaviour and also produce population projections under a series of scenarios using microsimulation. You will work with epidemiologists, statisticians and agricultural economists from a range of institutions and engage with academic and non-academic partners.
To explore the post further or for any queries you may have, please contact:
Dr Nik Lomax
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 3321, email: n.m.lomax@leeds.ac.uk
or Professor Mark Birkin
Tel: +44 (0)113 343 6838, email: m.h.birkin@leeds.ac.uk
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