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Research Fellow in Computer Vision and Health, THUD

Employer
UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE
Location
Melbourne, Australia
Closing date
10 Jul 2020

Job Details

Job no: 0050624
Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
Salary: $105,232 - $124,958 (Level B)
Role & Superannuation rate: Academic - Full time - 9.5% super

The University of Melbourne’s Transport, Health and Urban Design (THUD) Research Laboratory is entering into a research partnership with Queens University, Belfast to investigate associations between the built environment and health in Australia and the United Kingdom. This is part of a 3-year funded program. Using detailed urban imagery from maps, satellite images and street-view angles, the project will investigate how urban design is linked to the incidence and prevalence of non-communicable disease in locations across each country.

This project requires two Research Fellows with existing experience and interest in quantitative and / or computational research methodologies or the capacity and curiosity to quickly and competently add computational skills to an otherwise strong quantitative research methods base. Working in an inter-disciplinary team, you will be required to assimilate disparate information from multiple sources and have a firm understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of both imagery and epidemiological data and its application. You will work with the project’s Chief investigators on a day-to-day basis, learning from our team’s pre-established methodologies and methods and adding your own ideas and innovations. You are expected to be curious, motivated, creative, academically brave and productive. This is an opportunity to firmly establish a unique research theme of your own in a cutting-edge environment. At times you may not really feel like you know what you are doing. You must be comfortable with that.

Tasks will involve investigation and experimentation, project administration and documentation, ethics applications, data collection, providing technical advice, data management and data analysis, conducting literature searches and co-drafting reviews, leading and contributing to research papers and reports, and liaising between research and industry partners both here and overseas. There is no direct supervision of staff expected, though the opportunity to develop your own research projects and/or supervise PhD students where possible is encouraged. Some overseas travel may be required. You will be expected to be a positive and collaborative communicator within the team and externally, where your success with be the team’s success. There will be opportunity to present your work in multiple conferences, workshops and industry seminars, so the ability to effectively communicate your research to both academic and applied audiences will be highly valued.

The position is based at the Melbourne School of Design/Faculty of Architecture, Building & Planning (https://msd.unimelb.edu.au/) and is linked to the research program of the Transport, Health and Urban Design (THUD) Research Lab. For more information about THUD see https://thud.msd.unimelb.edu.au/home.

The position will report to Dr Jason Thompson, Senior Research Fellow in the Melbourne School of Design, and will be expected to work collaboratively with other Chief Investigators including Professor Mark Stevenson, Dr Kerry Nice and Dr Jasper Wijnands. Potential applicants are encouraged to familiarise themselves with the work of the investigators and THUD Lab as a guide to considering their interest in and suitability for the position.

THUD comprises an interdisciplinary team featuring epidemiologists, psychologists, mathematicians, architects, planners, geographers, and computer scientists. Applicants from a similarly broad suite of backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Fundamentally, however, candidates will be expected to demonstrate core-competence in the application of advanced quantitative and / or computational disciplines to problems associated with at least one-of the areas of image processing, urban design, or health.

Position Description

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Applications close: 10 Jul 2020 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time

Company

The University of Melbourne enjoys an outstanding reputation with world rankings consistently placing us as Australia’s leading comprehensive research-intensive university, and one of the world’s top 50*.

Melbourne attracts the best and brightest students and researchers and, with a history of over 160 years, we occupy a special place at the heart of our city’s cultural scene.

Melbourne is a leading research university, widely renowned for its teaching and the social and economic contributions it makes through knowledge transfer. The University’s performance in international rankings puts it at the forefront of higher education in the Asia-Pacific and beyond.

Internationally, the University is consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with its international peers placing it in the top 20 worldwide, and employers placing it in the top 10. In the recent Times Higher Education rankings of the world’s top 200 universities, Melbourne ranked top in Australia and 33 in the world.

Melbourne’s international research pre-eminence was also acknowledged with a top 100 ranking in the Shanghai Jiao Tong rankings. Ranked No. 44 in 2015, the University has climbed steadily in the rankings since first appearing at No. 92 in 2003.

The Melbourne Model introduces undergraduate programs characterised by both breadth and depth, followed by a graduate professional degree, a research higher degree or entry directly into employment.

In 2008 Melbourne commenced offering six New Generation undergraduate degrees in Arts, Biomedicine, Commerce, Environments, Music and Science. The Melbourne Model also introduces a new graduate school experience to Australia, providing the best and brightest with a more focused, intense and professionally relevant degree in areas such as Law, Architecture, Teaching and Nursing. With the Melbourne curriculum now aligning the University with the world’s top universities in Europe, North America and Asia, we enable our students to develop the skills and attributes required by employers all over the world.

More than 50,000 students from over 120 countries take courses in the University’s 12 faculties and graduate schools.

For more information please visit: http://www.unimelb.edu.au

*Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2015 – 2016 and Academic Ranking of World Universities 2015

Company info
Telephone
+61 (3) 8344 4000
Location

Parkville
Melbourne
Victoria
VIC 3010
Australia

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