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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychology

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

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Academic Discipline
Psychology, Social Sciences
Job Type
Academic Posts, Research Fellowships, Postdocs
Contract Type
Fixed Term
Hours
Full Time

Job Details

Work type: Fixed Term
Location: Parkville
Division/Faculty: Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences
Department/School: Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences
Salary: $73,669 - $99,964 (Level A)
Role & Superannuation rate: Academic - Full time - 17% super

About the role

The Melbourne School of Psychological Sciences, within the Faculty of Medicine, Dentistry and Health Sciences, is one of the leading schools of Psychology in Australia, with active research programs in Cognitive and Behavioural Neuroscience, Clinical Science, Cognitive and Mathematical Psychology, and Social and Personality Psychology. We have a large undergraduate and fourth-year teaching program and an extensive postgraduate program providing research and professional training.

The School also has an active research cohort encompassed in several broad research themes. The School has recently established four research hubs in Complex Human Data, Decision Science, Ethics and Well-being, and Translational Clinical Science, and has also developed a major initiative in Behaviour Change.

The Research Fellow will undertake research under the supervision of Dr Scott Griffiths, who leads the Physical Appearance Research Team together with Drs Isabel Krug and Khandis Blake. The appointed Research Fellow will contribute to research projects in the area of body image and appearance-related psychological disorders, including eating disorders.

We foster a values-based culture of innovation and creativity to enhance the research performance of the University and to achieve excellence in teaching and research outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

RESEARCH AND RESEARCH TRAINING

  • Oversee Gay Bodies Worldwide, a 5-year longitudinal panel study of sexual minority men (N~8000) due to finish in 2024
  • Design and conduct two large (N~200) ecological momentary assessment studies of individuals with body image and eating disorder diagnoses, employing both active and passive (i.e., sensor) data collection
  • Contribute to WIRED, an app-based intervention to ameliorate eating and body image disorders among gay men (N~600)
  • Analyse longitudinal data from EveryBODY, a longitudinal panel study of Australian adolescents (N~4000)
  • Contribute to a school-based prevention program to prevent eating and body image disorders among adolescents
  • Serve as Managing Editor of Ugly Duckling, a forthcoming print magazine publishing intelligent and critical articles about physical appearance
  • Write, submit, and revise manuscripts based on the above studies
  • Assist with advising honours and postgraduate students in the Physical Appearance Research Team (https://tinyurl.com/y828dn82)
  • Identify and apply for future research funding opportunities

LEADERSHIP AND SERVICE

  • Attend team meetings and relevant School and Faculty committee meetings
  • Support the broad ethos of the School and the School’s compliance with University policies and procedures.

ENGAGEMENT

  • Maintain an active, research-focused social media profile (Twitter, preferably!)
  • Participate in activities that strengthen the links between the University and the community and which help in the dissemination and utilisation of psychological knowledge

About you

ESSENTIAL

  • A PhD or near completion of a PhD in body image, or more broadly, in social psychology or clinical psychology
  • Demonstrated commitment to Open Science research principles
  • Ability to design and conduct methodologically thoughtful quantitative research
  • Ability to analyse complex quantitative data Demonstrated commitment to thoughtful data visualisation
  • An active, research-focused social media presence
  • Ability to articulate and publish research in peer-reviewed journals
  • Demonstrated organisational and project management skills

DESIRABLE

  • Skills in R
  • Skills in longitudinal data analysis, including multi-level models
  • Skills in the designing and conduct of ecological momentary assessment studies, randomised controlled trials, and planned missing data designs
  • Skills in the design, conduct, and analysis of qualitative research

For information to assist you with compiling short statements to answer the selection criteria, please go to:

https://about.unimelb.edu.au/careers/selection-criteria

Position Description

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Applications close: 10 Dec 2020 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Daylight 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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