UK Social research job to suit Excel programmer (not necessarily VBA)

[Duncan Smith]

"Peter Hansen" <peter at engcorp.com> wrote in message
news:40B8991F.4010207 at engcorp.com...
> Duncan Smith wrote:
>
> > http://www.man.ac.uk/news/vacancies/research.html#581
>
> Sorry, but what's the connection to Python?

There is (I am told) a significant amount of work automating Excel.
Unfortunately this isn't clear from the job description (I didn't write it).
I know from experience that this can be achieved admirably using Python (and
Mark Hammond's extensions).  Personally I would like to see the work done in
Python, but that depends on who applies and whether those who make the
decisions can be convinced that it's an appropriate language (well, moreso
than VBA).  It's certainly not a full-time programming job (due to the
social science / modelling component), but it does need someone who can
write good maintainable code.

Duncan