(LISEA) Post-docs
Three Postdoctoral Fellowships are immediately available at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University (Singapore) in the following areas:
A. Health Communication
This area focuses on the behavioral, social and policy issues related to health communication, in particular, the use of communication strategies to enhance health. Health communication spans all forms of disease prevention and health promotion in areas such as patient/professional communication, public health messages and campaigns, health risk communication, public health education and the improvement of public health through various media.
B. Health and Medical Informatics
This area focuses on the design, development and evaluation of advanced interactive health, healthcare and medical information systems. It covers the organization, acquisition (information extraction and text mining) and analysis management (information management and knowledge fusion/mobilization) of health-related information, such as patient records, clinical research results, biomedical research data, medical concepts, drug-related information and hospital information.
C. New Media
The research examines the use and effect of those new media which enable or facilitate social interaction and networking in a broad sense, such as social network sites and MMORPGs. A focus will be on users perceptions, behaviors, and responses, within the mediated settings as well as in real life, in terms of dimensions including motivation, adoption, privacy, identity, risk taking, self-disclosure, socialization, and social capital.
For details of the School, please visit http://www3.ntu.edu.sg/sci/.
Applicants should possess a doctoral degree issued not more that 3 year prior to the time of application. Applications should include a detailed CV and research proposal, and should be sent to:
Associate Dean (Research)
College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences
Nanyang Technological University
HSS building, HSS-05-17
14 Nanyang Drive, Singapore 637332
Fax: +65 6794 9577
Email: AD-HASS-RESEARCH@ntu.edu.sg
Applications will close on 30 April, 2010.
Postdoctoral fellowships are for one year, renewable for a second year, subject to satisfactory performance. Postdoctoral fellows may be required to assist in teaching, up to the equivalent of one semester-based course per academic year.
Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, consistently ranks among the top 100 universities in the world in the current university league tables. It offers attractive remuneration and benefits. For information about the University, please visit www.ntu.edu.sg. For information concerning the postdoctoral fellowships, please contact:
Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information
Associate Professor Theng Yin Leng, Associate Chair (Research)
Email: tyltheng@ntu.edu.sg
Tel: (65) 6790-5834
Fax: (65) 6791-5214