Lecturer in Health Geography

**Job no**: 0063843
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Full-time; Continuing
**Faculty**:Faculty of Science
**Department/School**:School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
**Salary**:Level B - $119,231 - $141,581 p.a. plus 17% super
- **Lead teaching and research in health geography, focusing on the relationship between place and human health.**:

- **Join a vibrant, multidisciplinary academic environment, contributing to impactful research and teaching.**:

- **Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts, and a 25% discount on graduate courses to our staff and their immediate families**

**About the Role**

Your responsibilities will include:

- Contribute to the undergraduate and graduate curriculum in health and human geography that complements and builds on the existing strengths of the School.
- Prepare and deliver lectures, tutorials and seminars as appropriate and in line with Faculty of Science minimum thresholds for teaching satisfaction.
- In collaboration with Senior Academic staff, conduct internationally competitive research in human and health geography, resulting in publications in high impact journals.
- Contribute to a range of administrative functions, including those connected with their research activities, teaching responsibilities and the administration and governance of the School and / or Faculty of Science.

**Who We Are Looking For**
Ideally, you will have a disciplinary background in geography or a closely related discipline, with a focus on human health, and comfortable working in a geography school. You will have excellent oral and written communication skills, along with strong interpersonal and organizational abilities to manage projects, meet deadlines, and collaborate effectively with colleagues from diverse disciplines.

You will also have:

- A PhD in geography or a closely related discipline.
- An emerging track record of publications in one or more aspects of health geography in leading international journals or other high-quality publications, relative to career opportunity.
- Ability to teach broadly into an undergraduate and/or graduate geography program including a capacity to contribute to teaching in health geography.
- Research expertise in health geography that demonstrates a commitment to empirical research in place.

For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.

**Please note: Visa sponsorship is available for this position**.

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The School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences has discipline strengths in geography, atmospheric science and geoscience. The School offers undergraduate and graduate research programs in these core discipline areas, and in the multi-disciplinary fields of Climate Change and Environmental Science.

The research within the School is built upon our diverse expertise ranging from the social sciences through to the quantitative physical sciences. In addition to internationally recognised discipline expertise, we have strengths in a number of multi-disciplinary areas including: climate change; resource futures; space, place and social change; environmental hazards; Indigenous knowledge; and Earth system interactions.

**What We Offer You**
We offer the opportunity to be part of a vibrant community and enjoy a range of benefits, including generous leave provisions, salary packaging, health and well-being services and discounts on graduate courses. For more information, check out our benefits page

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