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Associate Lecturer/Lecturer in AI and Design

Employer
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
Location
Sydney, Australia
Closing date
18 Jun 2019

Job Details

  • Join the Design Lab, an interdisciplinary research group working with diverse, innovative and emerging technologies.
  • Help shape the next generation of interaction, technology and user experience designers through contributing to our teaching and research programs
  • Full-time (though part-time may be negotiable), continuing, Full-Time remuneration: $92,682 to $123,682 p.a. plus leave loading and 17% superannuation

About the opportunity

The School is focused on the built environment and uses the methods of architecture, design, planning, science, art, engineering, computing, and social sciences to analyse, understand and design innovative environments. We have one of Australia’s best university laboratory infrastructures for research and design in the built environment, including our Lighting Lab, Spatial Audio and Acoustics Lab, and the Indoor Environmental Quality Lab. We have a major and ongoing investment in the Design Modelling and Fabrication Lab, including architectural robotics. The Design Lab, where these positions are hosted, explores the interactions between digital technologies and people, both within the built environment and beyond.  

The Design Lab explores the role of design for envisioning, defining, informing and innovating on the role of technology in society. As design researchers we study how the world can be changed, applying human-centred methods to imagine possible futures with a range of economic, social, cultural and environmental benefits. Our specialities include computational creativity, design innovation, designing for health and well-being, digital place-making, and urban data science.

The Design Lab is seeking applicants to join our academic team:

Associate Lecturer or Lecturer in AI and Design, with a track record in one or more relevant areas, including: computational creativity, creative AI, co-creativity, intelligent user interfaces, mixed/augmented/virtual reality, or other forms of novel human-centred computing.

At the Design Lab you will:

  • Develop an original, innovative and high-impact research program,
  • Advise higher-degree research students,
  • Design and deliver units of study at both the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, including in the Bachelor of Design Computing, the Master of Interaction Design and Electronic Arts, and the university-wide Major in Design (relevant units of study include: Design Programming, Programming for Designers, Interactive Product Design Studio, Web Design, & Technologies, Physical Computing, IDEA Studio  and Designing for VR)
  • Engage with industry, your discipline and the broader community, and
  • Work with staff and students from a wide range of cultural, social and professional backgrounds.

About you

The University values courage and creativity; openness and engagement; inclusion and diversity; and respect and integrity. As such, we see the importance in recruiting talent aligned to these values in the pursuit of research and teaching excellence.

If applying as an Associate Lecturer (Level A), you will have recently completed or will soon complete a PhD. If applying as a Lecturer (Level B), you will have begun developing an independent and original scholarly career since completing your PhD.

Additional qualities that would be a positive at both levels include:

  • Experience in designing and delivering project-based units of study in a university context
  • A track record of applying for competitive research funding schemes
  • Skills in both qualitative and quantitative research methods
  • Prior engagements with industry and other external organisations in your research and/or teaching
  • Experience in the design and/or technology industries

About us

From the appointment of its first Chair in 1918, the University of Sydney School of Architecture, Design and Planning has been an internationally acknowledged centre for intellectual, scientific and aesthetic research in architecture and the built environment, attracting the highest quality applicants in Australia. Founded in 1968 as the Computer Applications Research Unit, the Design Lab has for decades been an international research leader in how computers can be used to design and create. In the 2019 QS World University Rankings by Subject, the School was first in Australia, and ranked 15th in the world for Architecture/Built Environment.

Since our inception 160 years ago, the University of Sydney has led to improve the world around us. We believe in education for all and that effective leadership makes lives better. These same values are reflected in our approach to diversity and inclusion, and underpin our long-term strategy for growth. We’re Australia's first university and have an outstanding global reputation for academic and research excellence. Across 9 campuses, we employ over 7600 academic and non-academic staff who support over 47,000 students.

We are undergoing significant transformative change, which brings opportunity for innovation, progressive thinking, breaking with convention, challenging the status quo, and improving the world around us.

How to apply

For more information on the position and University, please view the candidate information pack available from the job’s listing on the University of Sydney careers website.

All applications must be submitted via the University of Sydney careers website. Visit sydney.edu.au/recruitment and search by the reference number 971/0519C to apply.

Closing date: 18 June 2018 (11:30pm Sydney time)

The University of Sydney is committed to diversity and social inclusion. Applications from people of culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds; equity target groups including women, people with disabilities, people who identify as LGBTIQ; and people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent, are encouraged.

© The University of Sydney

The University reserves the right not to proceed with any appointment.

Company

The University of Sydney was established in 1850 and is consistently recognised, both locally and internationally, for its outstanding teaching and research excellence. Sydney alumni include Prime Ministers, Governor Generals, Nobel Prize winners and leaders in every field of endeavour.

The University offers a comprehensive range of courses, including a number of disciplines unique in Australia. Teaching is spread across nine different state-of-the art campuses, located across New South Wales.

The University of Sydney’s commitment to excellence in research has resulted in an outstanding record in national competitive funding and underpins an approach to teaching which has won nominations for excellence and resulted in high student satisfaction ratings. The University has 78 research centres and institutes and is home to three ARC Centres of Excellence.

The teaching, research and cultural life of the University is supported by extensive facilities, including the largest library collection in the Southern Hemisphere, the world-class Nicholson Museum of archaeological antiquities, the Macleay Museum of natural history and ethnographic collections and the University Art Gallery. Its outstanding sporting and recreation facilities provide a training centre for students and Olympic athletes.

The University of Sydney is a key member of the Group of Eight Australian major research-intensive universities, and the Worldwide Universities Network.

Campuses

The University of Sydney has nine official campuses.

1.         Camperdown/Darlington Campus.

2.         Cumberland Campus. Home to the Faculty of Health Sciences (based in Lidcombe).

3.         Mallett Street Campus. Home of the Sydney Nursing School.

4.         Sydney Conservatorium of Music Campus. In Macquarie Street, central Sydney.

5.         Rozelle Campus. Home to Sydney College of the Arts.

6.         Surry Hills Campus. Home to the Faculty of Dentistry.

7.         Camden Campus. Contains facilities connected to the Faculty of Veterinary Science and the Faculty of Agriculture and Environment.

8.         Burren Street Campus. Facilties are currently under development.

9.         Sydney Medical School campuses. These include the School of Rural Health (in Dubbo and Orange), the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital, Concord Hospital, Westmead Hospital, the Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Nepean Hospital, Northern Clinical School, Sydney Adventist Hospital, Broken Hill University Department of Rural Health, and Northern Rivers University Department of Rural Health.

Faculties

The University of Sydney has 16 faculties.

1. Agriculture and Environment

2. Architecture, Design and Planning

3. Arts and Social Sciences

4. Business (Business School)

5. Dentistry

6. Education and Social Work

7. Engineering and Information Technologies

8. Health Sciences

9. Law (Sydney Law School)

10. Medicine (Sydney Medical School)

11. Nursing and Midwifery

12. Pharmacy

13. Science

14. Sydney College of the Arts

15. Sydney Conservatorium of Music

16. Veterinary Science

Number of Employees

Full-time employees: 7616

For more information, please visit: http://sydney.edu.au/

Company info
Telephone
+(61) 2 9351 2222
Location
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
NEW SOUTH WALES
2006
Australia

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