Post Doctoral Research Fellow

Job No.: 612668

Location: Caulfield campus

Employment Type: Part-time, fraction (0.5)

Duration: 3-year fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: Pro-rata of $99,147 - $117,738 pa Level B (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Be inspired, every day
• Drive your own learning at one of the world’s top 80 universities
• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research, infrastructure and learning facilities, opportunities to collaborate internationally, as well as the grants you’ll need to publish your work. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.

The Opportunity

The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S) is a new, cross-disciplinary, national research centre, which aims to aims to create the knowledge and strategies necessary for responsible, ethical, and inclusive automated decision-making. Funded by the Australian Research Council from 2020 to 2026, ADM+S is hosted at RMIT in Melbourne, Australia, with nodes in seven other Australian universities. The Centre brings together leading researchers in the humanities, social and technological sciences in an international industry, research and civil society network. Its priority domains for public engagement are news and media, transport, social services and health.

The Centre of Excellence is currently recruiting for a Post-Doctoral Research Fellow to join their team for the next 3 years on a part-time capacity, this position will engage in and deliver research and analysis of academic, industry, public sector and other grey literature. The Fellow will also assist in conducting in-depth stakeholder interviews and in analysing survey data and data collected via automated scraping tools, in order to place findings in theoretical and historical context

The successful applicant will also be responsible for:

• Participating in preparing reports
• Organising Events
• Presenting findings in public and academic settings
• Conduct independent research under the direction of the project leader, including being co-authored on research publications, conference papers and presentations

The successful applicant will be able to demonstrate:

• A Doctoral qualification in Media Studies or related discipline with a focus on theories of technology and society
• A research publication record in the area of technology and society
• Excellent written and oral communication skills with demonstrated ability to communicate effectively with a wide range of stakeholders and research collaborators, including presentations at seminars and conferences.
• Demonstrated experience in interview methods and analysis of interview materials.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and/or using computational social science methods, software and tools in a relevant research context or a willingness to learn such skills.

This role is a part-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated.

At Monash University, we are committed to being a Child Safe organisation. Some positions at the University will require the incumbent to hold a valid Working with Children Check.

Your application must address the selection criteria.

Enquiries

Professor Mark Andrejevic – Project Leader – Mark.Andrejevic@monash.edu

Closing Date

Thursday 11 February 2021, 11:55pm AEDT

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