Research Fellow - Women's Health

• School of Public Health

• 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 Herston

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 

This is an exciting opportunity for a Research Fellow to conduct quantitative analyses of survey data and linked administrative data (e.g., MBS, PBS, NAPLAN etc.) for the MatCHES project. The successful applicant will have a growing research profile in maternal and child health and will be expected to efficiently manage service and engagement roles and activities alongside their research.

Key responsibilities will include: 

• Research: Develop an independent and/or team research program to achieve national recognition and impact in maternal and child health and health system use.

• Produce quality research outputs consistent with discipline norms by publishing or exhibiting in national research journals, other appropriate refereed publications, and conference publications, with a lead role in some outputs.

• Work with colleagues in the development of joint research projects and applications for competitive research funding support.

• Supervision Development: Demonstrate a track record of the effective supervision of Honours and Higher Degree by Research students.

• Demonstrates personal effectiveness in supervision and management and development of researcher capability and skill.

• Citizenship and Service: Demonstrate behaviours that align to UQ values.

• Show leadership of self and others through mentoring, collaboration and active participation in priority activities for the unit

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

This is a full-time (100%), fixed-term position through to 7th April 2026

At Academic level B. The full-time equivalent base salary will be in the range $108,20- $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 – at least once a year.

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 flexible start/finish times, and genuine career progression opportunities via the academic promotions process.

About You  

• Completion of a PhD in public health, statistics, epidemiology, or a related topic.

• A growing profile in research in maternal and child health, health system use. Experience in research involving statistical analysis of large cohort studies and linked administrative data will be highly regarded.

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

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

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

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

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 Gita Mishra [email protected] . For application queries or a full position description, 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: Thursday 21st March 2024 at 11.00pm AEST (R-35235). Please note that interviews have been tentatively scheduled fo Wednesday 28th March 2024.

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