“Social Media and Healthcare”: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Vacancy at University College Dublin

From: diane.payne at UCD.IE
Subject: Postdoctoral Research Fellow Vacancy at University College Dublin (Ref 006056)

The Dynamics Lab at University College Dublin seeks applications for a Post-doctoral position. The position will provide salary and benefits for 16 months, but potentially longer contingent upon performance and funding availability. This is an academic research role, where you will conduct a specified programme of research supported by research training and development under the supervision and direction of a Principal Investigator.

The postdoc will work primarily on the UCD Strategic and Major Initiative research project “Social Media and Healthcare”. The postdoc will be expected to be able to collect and analyse large scale data sets drawn from various social media platforms and including facebook, twitter, blogs and others. The postdoc joins an interdisciplinary project team to develop innovative and new insights in how communication and interaction on social media impacts on individual behavioural choices with regard to own healthcare management.

It is hoped that this position can commence on 23rd September 2013 or as soon as possible thereafter. For more information, please go to http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/ and look for Reference 006056

Closing date: 16th August 2013
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Dr Diane Payne
Dynamics Lab, UCD
http://dl.ucd.ie

Job Position: one Research Assistant in Semantic Web and Healthcare areas

This presents a great opportunity:

The Unit for Health Care and Life Sciences (HCLS) at the Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI: http://www.deri.ie/) of the National University of Ireland, Galway invites applications for a Research Assistant (RA) position.

 

Research Assistant (RA) Position: Semantic Web in HealthCare and Life Sciences

DERI – National University of Ireland, Galway

 

DERI is a leading research institute in semantic technologies that offers a stimulating, dynamic and multi-cultural research environment, excellent ties to research-groups worldwide, close collaboration with industrial partners and up-to-date infrastructure and resources.

 

The DERI HCLS group (http://hcls.deri.ie/) has a focus on applied research in the use of semantics in solving some key healthcare problems and dealing with: 

• Interoperability of Electronic Healthcare Records (EHRs).
• Interoperability of distributed healthcare policies.
• Infrastructure which will scale to the thousands, and, in some environments millions, of patients who will avail of telehealth in the future.
• Secure infrastructure which accounts for the ownership of patient data, the privacy and dignity of the patient, and which allows the patient play a part in managing his/her chronic illness.

This will involve research into HCLS ontologies and standards (e.g., HL7, openEHR) within the area of healthcare messaging, patient modelling and distributed personal health records. Research in the DERI HCLS research group is carried out in close collaboration with other collaborating institutions and industrial partners. Candidates should have:

 

• A graduate degree in Computer Science/ Software Engineering or related fields.
• Knowledge of Semantic Web Technologies (RDF, SPARQL, OWL).
• Knowledge of healthcare standards (e.g., HL7, openEHR) is a plus but not a mandatory requirement.

Successful candidates are expected to have the willingness to combine formal scientific work with hands-on evaluation with healthcare providers.

 

Please send your application (CV, two letters of reference) in PDF format to the email address below – by Friday, February 3^rd, 2012

 

Ronan Fox/Ratnesh Sahay

Domain for Health Care and Life Sciences

DERI - National University of Ireland, Galway

IDA Business Park,

Lower Dangan,

Galway, Ireland

 

E-mails: ronan dot fox at deri dot org, ratnesh dot sahay at deri dot org

For more information about Galway, NUIG, and DERI, visit the following websites:

www.deri.ie, www.nuigalway.ie, and http://www.galway-ieland.ie/. 

My source: Post by Ratnesh Sahay to several lists.