Dear Colleagues:

The University of Plymouth has recently been awarded a large EPSRC-funded multi-centre project focusing on visualising energy in buildings to change user behaviour and reduce energy demand. The project is interdisciplinary, bringing together experts from building science, architecture, psychology, visualisation and computing in an effort to transform people's understanding and behaviour through novel energy visualisations using personal and social pervasive digital technologies. Apart from Plymouth University the project includes academic partners in Bath, Birmingham and Newcastle as well as International partners in Canada, the Netherlands and Austria. Links with various industry partners are in place. For this project, we are recruiting four research assistants in total, two in Psychology and two in the Environmental Building Group, to start in September 2012. Our academic partners will advertise their own openings separately.

In the Environmental Building Group, one research assistant will focus on experimental data harvesting, information transfer and visualisation, dealing specifically with sensors, networks and displays (hardware). The other research assistant with focus on the computational side of things, combining building simulation, building information modelling and intelligent search techniques.

Specifics for the first post, hardware/technology, are available at:

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/JOB/A2537%20Job%20description%20Grade%205.pdf

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/JOB/A2537%20Job%20Description%20Grade%206.pdf

Specifics for the second post, building simulation/building physics (and hence the key one for people on this list?), are available at:

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/U_JOBS/A2538%20Job%20Description%20Grade%205.pdf

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/U_JOBS/A2538%20Job%20Description%20Grade%206.pdf

The research assistants in Psychology will focus on the thorough testing of visualisation principles, applications and interventions in both laboratory and field contexts with a range of human participants and external stakeholders. The aim is to investigate the psychological principles underlying energy literacy, social influence and behaviour change in terms of memory, cognitive processes and motivation.

Specifics for the posts in Psychology can be found att:

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/JOB/A2539%20Job%20description%20Grade5.pdf

http://www.plymouth.ac.uk/files/extranet/docs/JOB/A2539%20Job%20description%20Grade%206.pdf

Best regards,

Pieter de Wilde