Graduate Researcher Academic Associate

**Graduate Researcher Academic Associate**:
**Position Number**: 0064136
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**: Part-time; Fixed-term for 12 months (full-time Graduate Researcher: min. FTE: 0.2 max. FTE 0.3; part-time Graduate Researcher: min. FTE: 0.1 max. FTE 0.15)
**Faculty**:Melbourne Law School
**Salary**:Level A.2 - $88,228, pro rat for part time, p.a. plus 17% super (pro rat for part time)
- **Undertake career advancing professional development, including minimum 30 hours paid professional development**:

- **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**
- Environmental Rights and Responsibilities (Semester 1)
- Intellectual Property Law (Semester 1)
- Legal Language (Semester 1)
- Sport and the Law (Semester 1)
- AI, Ethics and the Law (Semester 2)
- Free Speech and Media Law (Semester 2)
- Global Human Rights Law (Semester 2)
- Public Trials (Semester 2)
- JD Remedies
- JD Media Law
- Digital Platform Regulation (Sumer Intensive) - 27/01/2025 until 07/02/2025
- Consumer Law (Winter Intensive) - 9/06/2025 until 20/06/2025
- Science, Technology, and the Law (Winter Intensive) - 30/06/2025 until 11/07/2025

Graduate researchers with capacity and, in some cases specific sub-discipline knowledge, to support one or more of the following MLS Research Hubs during 2025:

- Asian Law Centre (ALC)
- Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies (CCCS)
- Centre for Employment and Labour Relations (CELRL)
- Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS)
- Law and Ethics Network (HLEN)
- Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH)
- Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law (MCCL)
- Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment (MCLE)
- Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (PMCS)
- Constitutional Transformation Network (CTN)
- Disability Law Network (DLN)
- Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA)
- Melbourne Climate Futures (MCF)
- MLS Human Rights Program (MLSHR)

As a GRAA in the Law School, the position will contribute positively, both individually and as part of a team, to educating, inspiring and supporting students and making a contribution to academic life at MLS through providing research support for our Research Hubs.

For those responsible for carrying out teaching, key education responsibilities will include:

- Participate in a compulsory induction session conducted prior to the start of teaching and a further follow-up session held during the teaching semester;
- Provide a minimum of two hours of tutorials a week or equivalent teaching;
- Provide teaching administrative support by undertaking tasks such as assisting with the preparation of reading guides and class materials, assistance with developing assessment (including new and innovative forms of assessment), assisting in scheduling classes and tutorials and other coordination activities;
- Provide consultations to students and assessing student work;
- Complete the **Online Induction for Sessional Teachers** and are encouraged to then complete additional teacher training offered by the Melbourne CSHE. Fellows are also encouraged to attend relevant sessions run by Melbourne Law School’s Research Support Program and take advantage of any other sources of training;
- Engage and meet with their designated teaching mentor throughout each year of the Fellowship. The teaching mentor will meet with the Fellow during the semester, attend at least one class taken by the Fellow, and write a report on the Fellow’s teaching that could be included in a teaching portfolio. _This report will be drawn on in deciding whether the Fellowship will be extended for another 12 months (within the three-year total duration of the Teaching Fellowship_); and
- Actively participate in Melbourne Law School teaching seminars.

For those providing research support, key responsibilities could include:

- Support the Research Hub Director in the governance, planning and strategic direction of the Hub;
- Initiate, develop, write, edit and manage research content on the Hub website to communicate research activities, content and outputs, including liaison with Hub members, and professional IT, web and marketing teams;
- Initiate, prepare and deliver content for the Hub’s newsletter;
- Develop and support research conferences, seminars and other engagement events, including liaison with Hub members, speakers, audience and MLS professional staff to support co-ordination of these activities;
- Liaise with MLS professional staff to build and maintain the database of Hub members and stakeholders for communication of Hub research and activities;
- Undertake research for the Hub in collaboration with, and under the direction of the Hub Director; and
- Undertake Hub projects and other duties as required by the Hub Director.

In addition, you will be supported to participate as a valued