Research Fellows - Anthropology

Job No.: 661215

Location: Caulfield campus

Employment Type: Full-time

Duration: 3-year fixed term appointment with possibility of 2-year extension 

Remuneration: $111,603 - $132,529 pa Level B (plus 17% employer superannuation)

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The Opportunity

The Emerging Technologies Research Lab (ETLab) is co-located across the Faculties of Art, Design and Architecture and Information Technology. ETLab is an interdisciplinary and international research and knowledge community. We investigate the futures, present and past of our social, experiential and political worlds. 

These Research Fellow positions are an exceptional and exciting opportunity for two outstanding, innovative, and flexible researchers with experience and qualifications in social and visual or design anthropology and a commitment to futures anthropology and theoretical, methodological and ethnographic innovation. The successful candidates will participate in generating groundbreaking theoretical and empirical research, engagement and impact. They will be the first appointments to Professor Sarah Pink’s Laureate Fellowship group which will ultimately involve four Research Fellows, three PhD students and a professional staff member. 

The Research Fellows will undertake research related to digital and net zero transitions across one or more of the themes of home, work and urban futures. They will employ and innovate in approaches developed in visual, design and futures anthropology, including literature based, ethnographic, video and photography-based, design futures, workshop and speculative methods. In addition to delivering top quality academic research and scholarship. They will be involved in making methods focused and ethnographic video shorts and documentaries either independently or as part of a team, and will lead, contribute to and participate in diverse modes of dissemination including industry- and government-accessible reports, video and photographic, public scholarship, and academic peer refereed publications. 

The Research Fellows will be active participants in FUTURES Hub, a communication, meeting and dissemination point for Futures research and activity connected to Sarah Pink's ARC Laureate Fellowship, 'The Impact of Future Human Values and Practices on Australia's Digital and Net Zero Transitions'. FUTURES Hub also connects related futures focused work of ETLab and its FUTURES community of engaged scholars and partners from industry, government, not-for-profit and other sectors.

We are now seeking to fill the following positions:

 Research Fellow, Visual Anthropology  

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 Research Fellow, Futures Anthropology  

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The Laureate Fellowship programme involves fieldwork across Australia. It is a requirement of this position that the Research Fellow should be able and available to be based at Monash University in Melbourne and undertake fieldwork for extended periods of time in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia. 

Diversity is one of our greatest strengths at Monash. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, culturally and linguistically diverse people, people with disabilities, neurodiverse people, and people of all genders, sexualities, and age groups.

Join the pursuit of our purpose to build a better future for ourselves and our communities – #ChangeIt with us.

Monash avidly supports flexible and hybrid working arrangements. We have a range of policies in place enabling staff to combine work and personal commitments. This includes supporting parents .

Your employment is contingent upon the satisfactory completion of all pre-employment and/or background checks required for the role, as determined by the University.

To Apply

Please submit a copy of your current CV and a cover letter addressing how you meet the key selection criteria. For instructions on how to apply, please refer to 'How to apply for Monash Jobs '.

Closing Date 

Tuesday 19 March 2024, 11:55pm AEDT

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