Post-doctoral Fellow

Teachers of tomorrow choose ECU’s School of Education because we are leaders in teacher education and education research. With over 5000 students and a proud history of teacher education since 1902, the School has consistently been recognised as one of the highest-ranking schools of education in Australia for student satisfaction. Our dedicated staff is committed to equipping aspiring and practicing teachers with the skills, knowledge and experiences to positively impact the lives of students and communities.

Our teaching and research addresses the most critical challenges in the field, including teaching and learning; educational leadership; sport, health, and wellness; language, literacy, and numeracy; higher education pedagogy and curricular development; interdisciplinary and innovative research approaches; and educational equity in local, national, and international contexts.

An opportunity has arisen for suitably experienced and motivated emerging and early career researchers to join the School of Education.

The Opportunity
The School of Education at Edith Cowan University has a research vision to transform lives through robust, engaged, and responsive research that positively impacts local and global education futures. We believe that knowledge, when harnessed creatively and ethically, has the power to bring about profound change. Our research is committed to addressing the most critical challenges in education and fostering innovation that directly improves the wellbeing of individuals and communities on both a local and global scale.

Within the School of Education, you will be actively participating in a research community that focuses on Wellbeing and Education. In this field, you will collaborate with a team that is at the forefront of research related to wellbeing, self-care and resilience within a range of educational contexts. Our overarching goal is to emphasise proactive measures based on a wide range of evidence-based wellbeing science, aimed at promoting wellbeing at local, regional, national and global levels.

From this perspective, we consider wellbeing education within and across various sectors, including initial teacher education, schools, higher education, vocational education, and its impact on teachers, students, as well as society and the broader community.

Two positions are available to work with VC Professoriate Research Fellow Professor Narelle Lemon (1 Postdoc) and Executive Dean Professor Caroline Mansfield (1 Postdoc) within the School of Education and the Wellbeing and Education research community, with possible areas including:
Flourishing with our wellbeing

Growth and fixed mindset in wellbeing and self-care

Indigenous community and educator relationships/partnerships

Rural and regional teaching and wellbeing literacy

Interactions of arts, wellbeing and education in indigenous communities

Making, craft, and/or arts for/as wellbeing and self-care

Wellbeing literacy in educational contexts

Self-care and proactive ways of being

Wellbeing education

Initial teacher education wellbeing and self-care

Teacher wellbeing and self-care

Interdisciplinary approaches to wellbeing

Systems thinking and approaches to wellbeing and self-care

Positive education

Positive psychology and education wellbeing and self-care

Coaching education

Resilience education

Teacher resilience

**Postdoctoral research fellowship**: Each Post-Doctoral Fellow will lead a program of work, informed by wellbeing science and located in the context of wellbeing education with alignment to qualitative methods or mixed methods. Working with the ECU Vice Chancellor’s Professorial Research Fellow and Executive Dean will contribute to research capacity building initiatives while working cooperatively with research partners and other key stakeholders. Research dissemination and publication of results is expected with alignment to Field of Research (FOR) 39 as well as other interdisciplinary areas as relevant.

**Potential research topics could include**:
Wellbeing literacy in educational contexts

School wellbeing

Trauma-informed pedagogy

Mental health

Pedagogy of Belonging or Pedagogy of Care or Pedagogy of Kindness for systems approaches to wellbeing

Strengths based education and wellbeing and self-care

Educational leadership wellbeing

Higher education wellbeing and self-care

Community education wellbeing and self-care

Proposals are invited for a research project that aligns with the research community and work in the area of Wellbeing and Education and methodology that involves a one of or a combination of creative methods, qualitative methods, and/or mixed methods.

Benefits & Remuneration
This full time Postdoctoral (x2) fixed term position attracts remuneration of $110,065 to $130,045 pa (ALEV B) plus 17% University superannuation contribution.

ECU supports a work/life balance for staff. Benefits such as flexible working arrangements may also be negotiated to meet your personal ci