Research Fellow - Audiology, Psychology or Speech Pathology

• School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences

• Join a university ranked in the world’s top 50

• Access state-of-the-art facilities to further your research endeavours

• Collaborate with highly awarded, world-class colleagues

• Based at our St Lucia campus

About UQ

As part of the UQ community, you’ll have the opportunity to work alongside the brightest minds, who have joined us from all over the world, and within an environment where interdisciplinary collaborations are encouraged.

At the core of our teaching remains our students, and their experience with us sets a foundation for success far beyond graduation. UQ has made a commitment to making education opportunities available for all Queenslanders, regardless of personal, financial, or geographical barriers.

As part of our commitment to excellence in research and professional practice in academic contexts, we are proud to provide our staff with access to world-class facilities and equipment, grant writing support, greater research funding opportunities, and other forms of staff support and development.

About This Opportunity 

We are seeking a highly motivated and experienced Research Fellow, with expertise in the areas of social connections and wellbeing in older adults, to join our world-leading School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences. Our School has a long tradition of high achievement in teaching and research in audiology, occupational therapy, physiotherapy and speech pathology. As one of Australia's leading health and rehabilitation educators, the School is recognised internationally for its teaching and research staff, alumni and quality of students. 

In this role, you will have the opportunity to engage in research to further your expertise and growing research profile to achieve national recognition in your discipline. At this level you will also be responsible for efficiently managing service and engagement roles and activities.

Key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to: 

Research: Develop a research program, collaborate on research projects, seek and manage research funding, produce quality research outputs, publish in reputable journals and utilise best practice research methodologies.

Supervision and Researcher Development: Supervise students, lead and manage employees, resolve conflicts and provide performance feedback, coaching and training.

Citizenship and Service: Develop partnerships, demonstrate leadership through mentoring, engage in internal service roles and committees, perform administrative functions, provide support to colleagues, and uphold university values.

This is a research focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ’s Criteria for Academic Performance .

This is a full-time (or part time negotiable for the right candidate), fixed-term position through to 20 March 2025. There may be an opportunity to extend pending further funding renewal.

The full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $108,201 - $128,201, plus a generous super allowance of up to 17%. The total FTE package will be up to $126,595 - $149,996 annually. As this role is covered by an Enterprise Agreement, you will also receive regular remuneration increases in line with the Enterprise Agreement.

The greater benefits of joining the UQ community are broad: from being part of a Group of Eight university, to recognition of prior service with other Australian universities, up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, flexible working arrangements including hybrid on site/WFH options and flexible start/finish times, and genuine career progression opportunities via the academic promotions process.

About You  

• Completion of a PhD in a relevant Health or Social Science discipline such as Audiology, Psychology or Speech Pathology.

• A developing reputation and track record of publications in reputed refereed journals and presenting at conferences.

• Demonstrated high level interpersonal and verbal and written communication skills, including the ability to consult and negotiate with participants, members of the research team, and other stakeholders to ensure project objectives are met.

• Evidence of successfully seeking, obtaining and managing external research funding.

• Understanding of research processes, data management, data analysis and presentation of scientific findings.

• Skills and experience with quantitative analysis, including Microsoft Excel to create data spreadsheets and statistical analysis using SPSS.

• A growing record of supervision of Honours and Research Higher Degree students to successful completion.

• Ability to work effectively both independently and as a member of a team.

• Experience in meaningful internal service roles in conjunction with active contributions to external activities.

The following would be highly regarded:

• Experience working with adults with hearing loss.

• Experience with qualitative research methods.

• Experience with collecting video recorded data.

In addition, the following mandatory requirements apply:

• Work Rights: You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. 

• Mandatory Immunisations: It is a condition of employment for this role that you will be required to provide evidence of immunisation against certain vaccine preventable diseases.

Questions? 

For more information about this opportunity, please contact Professor Louise Hickson, Executive Dean, Faculty of Health and Behavioural Sciences via email at [email protected] .

For application queries, please contact [email protected] stating the job reference number (below) in the subject line.

 
Want to Apply? 

All applicants must upload the following documents in order for your application to be considered:

• Resume

• Cover letter

• Responses to the ‘About You’ section

Other Information 

At UQ we know that our greatest strengths come from our diverse mix of colleagues, this is reflected in our ongoing commitment to creating an environment focused on equity, diversity and inclusion .  We ensure that we are always attracting, retaining and promoting colleagues who are representative of the diversity in the broader community, whether that be gender identity , LGBTQIA+ , cultural and/or linguistic , Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander peoples , or people with a disability . Accessibility requirements and/or adjustments can be directed to [email protected]  

If you are a current employee (including casual staff and HDR scholars) or hold an unpaid/affiliate appointment, please login to your staff Workday account and visit the internal careers board to apply for this opportunity. Please do NOT apply via the external job board.

Applications close Sunday 12 May 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (R-37412).