Lecturer in Physical Geography

**Job no**: 0056440
**Location**:Parkville
**Role type**:Full-time (Continuing)
**Faculty**:Faculty of Science
**Department/School**:School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
**Salary**:UOM Level B: $114,645-$1136,135 plus 17% super
- **An exciting opportunity to showcase your expertise in physical geography to contribute to teaching and research excellence while developing impactful research agendas**:

- **Join a team that embraces its key disciplines as well as the multi-disciplinary synergies across the School and Faculty**:

- **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**
The School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences is seeking a highly motivated lecturer in Physical Geography. You will play a vital role in contributing to teaching excellence and conduct impactful research in areas such as water, fluvial geomorphology, environmental impacts, or human-environment interactions. You will make significant contributions to research as well as developing your own research agenda that has impact on academic knowledge and the broader community.

Your responsibilities will include:

- Conduct a program of research that contributes to the geography discipline in the School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences
- Publish research findings in the international refereed journals and present results at seminars, conferences and meetings
- Conduct research that contributes to the School’s strategic research priorities, with a focus on physical geography
- Prepare research proposals for submission to external funding bodies to successfully obtain external funding to support their research

**Who We Are Looking For**

You will also have:

- A PhD in physical geography or a related discipline
- An emerging capacity to establish collaborations and engage with a broad range of researchers nationally and internationally

For further information regarding responsibilities and requirements, please refer to the attached PD.
- This position requires the incumbent to hold a current and valid Working with Children Check to ensure the University provides a safe environment for everyone._

**Visa sponsorship is available for this position.**

**Your New Team - “School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences “**
The School of Geography, Earth and Atmospheric Sciences was formally established in 2021, following the merger of the Schools of Geography and Earth Sciences. The new School synergises 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, Environmental Science and Archaeological Science. The research within the School is built upon extensive expertise in geography, geoscience and atmospheric science, 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.

The School contributes strongly to the key areas of Place, Community, Education, Discovery, and Global in the University’s Advancing Melbourne Strategy.

**What We Offer You**
In addition, 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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