Careers in Research Leadership

1 week ago

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia beBeeAcademic Full time $64,667 - $129,134
Research Opportunities

Casual Academic Positions Available Across Diverse Research Centres and Institutes.

Our organisation is seeking expressions of interest from suitably qualified individuals for casual academic opportunities across our research centres and institutes. We welcome applications from individuals with experience or research interests aligned with any of our research centres or institutes.

About Our Research Centres
  • Thompson Institute: Pioneering research in mental health and neuroscience.
  • Forest Research Institute: Advancing forest science and sustainability.
  • Centre for Human Factors and Sociotechnical Systems: Shaping safer, more resilient systems.
  • Centre for Bioinnovation: Bridging biology, technology, and innovation.
  • Australian Centre for Pacific Islands Research: Working in partnership with Pacific communities.
  • Indigenous and Transcultural Research Centre: Prioritising research led by and for Indigenous and transcultural communities.

With a diverse range of research centres, we offer numerous opportunities for collaborative research and professional growth.

Key Objectives
  1. Be an effective researcher and provide leadership in research and research training by:
  • Purposefully developing focused expertise in a relevant discipline/field.
  • Developing a research agenda and participating in a research team(s).
  • Framing research problems and researchable hypotheses.
  • Designing and conducting research projects and writing research reports.
  • Communicating research outcomes to both expert and lay audiences through publishing.
  • Successfully applying for research grants.
  • Successfully supervising candidates for higher degrees by research.
  • Contributing to the development and maintenance of a positive academic environment that is conducive to high levels of engagement and standards of performance in research.
Maintain substantial involvement in professional/community service as a scholarly practice through which discipline knowledge and skills are applied to consequential problems in the world beyond the university. Service can include:
  • Editing journals and being a member of review panels.
  • Creating opportunities for discussion of intellectual, social, economic and cultural issues of importance to the well-being of the community.
  • Making professional commentary on issues in the general media and within the wider community which involves bringing specialist expertise to bear on issues of general public interest in a range of fora.
Undertake major consulting projects through the university. Provide service to the university by contributing to the definition and achievement of its goals and enable it to be a healthy organisation and can include:
  • Developing and maintaining strategic and productive partnerships, connections and relationships with people, groups and organisations at local, national and international levels.
  • Communicating appropriately and effectively with students, other staff and individuals outside the university.
Qualifications and Skills
  • Completion of a relevant doctoral qualification and experience as a researcher.
  • Quality and trajectory of the applicant's track record relative to opportunity:
    • Refereed publications and other acknowledged research outputs that are discipline specific.
    • External funding awarded over the last five years.
    • Esteem measures (keynote addresses or invitations to present, prizes and awards, committee/board membership etc).
    • Technology transfer activities.
    • Outreach activities (including engagement with external partners). And supervision of research students.

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