The Ian Potter Foundation Principal Research Fellow

7 months ago

Perth, Australia Murdoch University Full time

Fixed Term (3 years), Full Time
- Classification ACAPD | $149,000 - $164,000 plus 17% employer superannuation contributions
- Salary Packaging opportunities
- Ref: JR101717

This position is identified as having genuine occupational qualifications which are required to be undertaken by a person of a particular sex*. Pursuant to a Section 27 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984, only suitable applicants identifying as Male* will be considered.

About Us

The Ngangk Yira Institute for Change (Ngangk Yira) is one of the four key Murdoch University institutes that bring together leading researchers from centres and across the University to deliver world class multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary translational research that benefits the Aboriginal community government and industry. Ngangk Yira brings together the disciplines that contribute to ensuring quality research evidence underpins Murdoch University’s commitment to excellence in Aboriginal health and social equity research.

Ngangk Yira is founded on principles of meaningful community engagement, professional collaborations, and Aboriginal-led research. These, together with engagement of Aboriginal Elders, Aboriginal communities, and the preservation of cultural wisdom and data sovereignty, ensures Ngangk Yira is championing meaningful, co-designed research for the health and social equity of Aboriginal people, families, and communities.

The Role

Established as part of a major grant from the Ian Potter Foundation for the “FEALING Program: Family Empowerment Across Life - Indigenous Growth”; the Principal Research Fellow provides a critical gender specific leadership role for the expansion of research focused on the priorities facing Aboriginal men and fathers. The role includes significant engagement with stakeholders and Aboriginal communities in Western Australia to develop co-designed, transformative, community and multidisciplinary research that privileges Aboriginal knowledge and world views. This position will report to the Director (Stan Perron Charitable Foundation Professorial Chair) of the newly established Yorga Maaman Koolanga Research and Advocacy Centre in the Ngangk Yira Institute for Change.

Key responsibilities for the role include:

- Initiating and leading development of new priorities in strategic research for men’s health, social and emotional wellbeing and its translation to policy and practice.
- Engage with Elders, Aboriginal community members and key external stakeholders to undertake the co-design that underpins the principles of Ngangk Yira’s research methodologies.
- Collaborate with Centre Directors and senior researchers across the three research and advocacy centres of the Ngangk Yira institute for Change on collaborative research aligned with issues affecting men’s health, social and emotional wellbeing.
- Provide leadership for project milestones, research protocols, and dissemination of outcomes to meet research objectives, timeframes, community engagement and legislative requirements.
- Build and maintain new and existing partnerships, collaborations, and networks external to the University to enhance research and advocacy of Aboriginal men’s health and promote the translation of research outputs to policy and practice.
- Making significant contributions to the Yorga, Maaman Koolanga Research and Advocacy Centre’s publications and impact profile by producing high quality publications.
- Take a Principal supervisory role for HDR (PhD/Masters/Honours) research students and mentor early and mid-career researchers.

What you’ll bring to this role
- A PhD/Doctorate/MPhil (or equivalent senior experience) in a relevant field; health, population health, education, or social equity.
- Demonstrated leadership in either population health, or educational policy and research for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander communities with a focus on men’s health, social and emotional wellbeing.
- Experienced in quantitative or qualitative research management in a higher education institution or independent research organisation.
- Track record of success in obtaining and successfully managing competitive research funding (Category 1, 2, or 3) with national & international impact.
- Success in producing high quality independent research outputs that have national impact and influence.
- Record of successful HDR supervision.
- Demonstrated links with relevant professional or industry groups and external stakeholders to advance the academic and research interests of the Ngangk Yira Institute for Change and Murdoch University.
- Leadership skills for effective and culturally safe interactions with the diversity of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander people across urban, regional, and remote communities.
- Strong commitment to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander self-determination, data sovereignty principles, and to improving public policy for the health, wellbeing, and social equity or Aboriginal and Torres Strai

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