Postdoctoral Research Fellow

About Flinders

Our bold vision, captured in our Strategic Plan: making a Difference: The 2025 Agenda, is to be internationally recognised as a world leader in research, an innovator in contemporary education, and the source of Australia’s most enterprising graduates.

To realise this ambition, we recently made a significant organisation change to a six College structure with a professional staff and services alignment.

We recognise the key to our success is exceptional people and we’re seeking an outstanding individual to join the team of our transformed university.

Employment Type:

Fixed Term (Fixed Term)

Position Summary

Availability:
Fixed-Term until Aug 2025 | Part-Time (0.8 FTE)
Compensation Grade:
Research Level B
Salary Range:
$101,724 - $120,380 p.a.
Reporting to:
Professor; Disability & Community Inclusion
College of Nursing & Health Sciences
Position Summary:
The Postdoctoral Research Fellow will make a high-quality contribution to research in violence prevention and strategies to promote wellbeing for people with intellectual disability. Working under the supervision of the Chief Investigator and with the research team/s, the appointee will independently design and execute research in the Australian Research Council Linkage project ‘Confronting everyday harm: preventing abuse of people with disability’. The incumbent will also work closely with the Community Researchers employed on the project, who are people with intellectual disability.

Key Position Responsibilities

The Postdoctoral Research Fellow is accountable for:

• Making an independent high-quality contribution to the planning and execution of research design, implementation and analysis, writing up results and outcomes dissemination.

• Coordinating the work of the Project Research Team to successfully deliver project milestones and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs). Contributing to the coordinating, planning and executing the project tasks required to collaborate with industry partners.

• Contributing to ethical, high quality research through activities such as scholarship, quality publication, external grant acquisition and presentations that aligns with the College areas of research strength and focus.

• Supervision of honours and/or postgraduate students, as appropriate.

• Establishing and maintaining collaborations within the University, and at State, national and international levels in order to improve research outputs, patents and publications.

• Some out of hours work (including weekends) as well as rural SA, interstate and overseas travel, may be required.

• Any other responsibilities in line with the level of the position as assigned by the Supervisor and/or the University.

Key Position Capabilities

• Completion of a PhD in a disability studies or related field.

• Demonstrated research experience in terms of publications and presentations at a national and/or international level in a relevant field.

• Demonstrated experience in qualitative research methodology.

• Demonstrated ability to deliver project targets on time.

• An understanding of contemporary issues in disability, community inclusion and delivery of social policy.

• Demonstrated well-developed interpersonal skills and the capacity to collaborate and engage with diverse stakeholders and industry partners.

• Demonstrated ability to critically review the literature in relevant fields.

• Demonstrated ability to undertake collaborative research and establish and maintain effective relationships with staff and industry.

• Demonstrated excellent oral and written communication skills in an academic environment.

• Experience in supporting people with intellectual disability (desirable).

Prescribed Conditions for Employment
A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position. 

 

Flinders University has introduced a COVID-19 Vaccination Policy  that requires all new staff members to be up to date with their COVID-19 vaccinations, subject to medical exemptions and limited exemptions. 

 

Information for Applicants:

You are required to upload your CV.

A valid National Police Certificate which is satisfactory to the University will also be required before the successful applicant can commence in this position.

We are seeking to increase the diversity to improve equal opportunity outcomes for employees, and therefore we encourage female applicants, people with a disability and/or from Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islanders descent to apply.

Please note, late applications and applications sent via agencies will not be accepted.

Applications Close 11:59pm:

14 Aug 2022