Xijing University

Part-time 21 hours per week (0.6 FTE), Fixed-Term position for 3 Years Based at Westmead campus with flexible working arrangements. Salary: Academic Level C or D determined based on the successful candidate’s skills and experience. Academic Level C pro-rata rates $90,048.60 – $103,435.20 plus 17% Super & Leave Loading  Academic Level D pro-rata rates $107893.20 – $118,596 plus 17% Super & Leave Loading  Lead a focused research stream in integrative health with a strong translational and clinical trials focus. The Opportunity You will develop and lead a research stream within the NICM Health Research Institute, with a focus on complementary and integrative health approaches that translate into practical healthcare applications. This is a 3-year fixed-term appointment based at Westmead campus, with appointment at Academic Level C or D determined by your skills and experience. You will design, oversee and conduct rigorous clinical research, including randomised controlled trials, to strengthen the evidence base for integrative healthcare across priority health areas such as cardiometabolic health, women’s reproductive health, cancer care, dementia and mental health. You will produce high-quality publications and reports, and actively contribute to the Institute’s research and translational programs through leadership and collaboration. You will secure external research funding and build productive partnerships with government, industry, not-for-profit and community stakeholders. You will supervise higher degree research students and contribute to training and mentoring across projects, while supporting governance and external engagement activities that enhance the Institute’s reputation and impact. What Success Looks Like: A defined research stream is established and delivered with clear translational outcomes. Competitive research funding is secured through grants and collaborative partnerships. High-quality peer-reviewed publications and reports are produced and disseminated. Strong stakeholder relationships are built to support clinical and translational activity. HDR students and project staff are effectively supervised to achieve timely outcomes. Please refer to the Position Description for full details. About You You hold a doctoral qualification (PhD) in a clinical and/or complementary medicine discipline aligned to integrative health. You possess a strong track record of securing research income through competitive grants and/or industry or community partnerships. You’ve demonstrated success in leading and delivering significant research projects, including the management of funded programs of work. You bring the ability to develop and sustain impactful research networks, with a focus on meaningful stakeholder collaboration. You have highly developed communication skills, enabling you to teach, present and translate research into real-world outcomes. Benefits We invest in the people who make our mission possible. Alongside a rewarding career, we offer a range of benefits designed to support your financial, personal and family wellbeing. Financial benefits: Access to staff-only products and offers with selected banking partners, salary sacrifice options for onsite parking, and novated motor vehicle leasing. Health and wellbeing support: Free Employee Assistance Program (EAP), complimentary annual flu vaccination, eligibility for Fitness Passport membership, and access to discounted private health cover. Onsite childcare: Long day care and early learning services operate at our Campbelltown, Hawkesbury, Parramatta, and Penrith campuses. Staff may be eligible for discounted fees and salary packaging, with places subject to centre capacity. Application Details Position Enquiries: Direct to Associate Professor Mike Armour, Principal Fellow – Reproductive Health via M.Armour@westernsydney.edu.au. Please include the job reference code REF1349H. Closing Date: 11:59pm, Monday 29 June 2026. Working Rights: You must provide evidence of working rights in Australia at application. How to Apply: Please note that only applications submitted via the University’s online recruitment system will be considered. As part of your online application, you will be asked to respond to screening questions addressing the key qualifications, experiences and skills required for this position. Belonging at Western We are committed to substantive equality as outlined in our Equal Opportunity Policy. We actively encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, candidates of all gender identities and expressions, people of all abilities, and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. For Reasonable Adjustments during the application process, please contact talentacquisitionteam@westernsydney.edu.au. About Western This is your opportunity to be part of something bigger. By joining Western Sydney University, you become a valued member of our community. As our region changes, so too does our university. Western is boldly different, energetic, global, diverse, dynamic, and youthful. Our mission is to deliver student success, impactful research, and stronger communities. As part of our team, you will have a stake in shaping the future of education, broadening horizons, and changing lives. Making a difference starts at Western. For the latest please visit our website and LinkedIn.

Job opportunity in a multidisciplinary research project at the Department of Architecture, Aalto ARTS (a postdoctoral researcher or an almost finished doctoral student) Aalto University is where science and art meet technology and business. We shape a sustainable future by making research breakthroughs in and across our disciplines, sparking the game changers of tomorrow and creating novel solutions to major global challenges. Our community is made up of 16 000 students and 5 200 employees, including 446 professors. Our campus is in Espoo, Greater Helsinki, Finland. Diversity is part of who we are, and we actively work to ensure our community’s diversity and inclusiveness. This is why we warmly encourage qualified candidates from all backgrounds to join our community. The Department of Architecture at Aalto University is an internationally renowned education and research unit (within app. top 2% in the world of architecture). With Finland’s esteemed architectural heritage, we search for new solutions to the challenges of sustainable development. To us, architecture is an art form that requires practical skills and individual artistic development, as well as knowledge on sustainability relevant to design and planning. We educate critical thinkers who accept their responsibility to research and design a socially, culturally, and ecologically sustainable built environment. The Department of Architecture offers degree programs in architecture, landscape architecture, and interior architecture. For more information, please see http://architecture.aalto.fi/en/. We are now looking for a postdoctoral researcher or an almost finished doctoral student. We are seeking a researcher with a doctoral degree (or almost that) in building or interior architecture to join an EU-funded research project concerning interior architecture and textiles at Aalto University’s Department of Architecture. In this position, you will have the opportunity to contribute to the transformation of the interior textile industry by leveraging design as a driver of sustainable competitiveness. This practice-led material innovation project addresses interior textiles, which amount to 30% of all textile production. By changing the colouration process early in production, the use of water and chemicals could be reduced by 50%. To implement this change though mayor barriers need to be overcome. We propose system-level changes across design, decision-making, business ecosystems, and policy in the interior textiles sector. The project will equip designers and industry decision-makers with a comprehensive set of guidelines for design, aesthetics, production, and business models. The work is part-time and requires working from Finland also when in remote mode: 40% workload (2 days per week) for the first 1,5 years (August 2026 – January 2028) and 10% workload (0,5 day per week) for the second 1,5 years (February 2028 – July 2029). The work should start on the 26th of August latest, if not agreed otherwise. The starting salary for an entry-level postdoc is approximately 4150€ per month (for 100% work). Your role and goals The role combines high-level analytical responsibility with collaborative engagement in design-led research processes, ensuring integration between academic rigor and practice-based innovation, analyzing and benchmarking built interior design examples that successfully incorporate sustainable textile practices synthetizing findings from textile manufacturing heritage research to interior design documenting the aesthetic dimensions of sustainable transitions, as well as applying life cycle assessment, cradle-to-cradle thinking, and material circularity indicators to the project participating to create an approach for esthetic acceptance, emotional durability, and aesthetics of imperfection shaping aesthetic paradigms and current values producing aesthetic and technical guidelines for interior designers enabling them to make informed and more sustainable fabric selections participating creating a design-business-marketing transformation framework  identifying and recommending industry standards and policies: contributing to integrated recommendations together with industry partners producing expert insight presentations to professional audiences disseminating the results and communicating the project especially with video-based knowledge resources through relevant platforms and publications throughout the interior textile industry participating to develop the concept for a spatial demonstration of the findings of the project …and supporting professors Katrin Greiling and Antti Ahlava in other parts of the project Your network and team Aalto's multidisciplinary team includes prof. Antti Ahlava and assistant prof. Katrin Greiling from the Department of Architecture. The leader of the whole project is prof. Maarit Salolainen from Aalto's Dept. of Design. Your supervisor would be Katrin Greiling. Other schools from Aalto include SCI (assist. prof. Lauri Saarinen), and BIZ (PoP Antti Vassinen). The partners from the textile industry cover all relevant parts of the interior textile value chain from fiber production and yarns to fabrics. Your experience and ambitions Qualified candidates for the postdoctoral position should hold a doctoral degree (or almost that) and have sufficient research experience and interest in fields and themes relevant to the position. Adequate skills in qualitative and/or artistic research methods are required, and ability for multidisciplinary research is considered to be highly advantageous. Excellent English language skills are required. You need to have a genuine interest in interior textiles. Selection process The evaluation will be based on the assessment of the candidate’s relevant past research and creative/artistic background and achievements, as well as their potential for contributions to the proposed research. Applications will be reviewed by a team of researcher-practitioners, and shortlisted candidates will be invited for an online interviews. What we offer Meaningful and inspiring environment. We are proud of our purpose to shape a sustainable future. We spark the game changers of tomorrow, and renew society with research-based knowledge, creativity and an entrepreneurial mindset. Culture that inspires and includes everyone. All our work is guided by the values of the university: responsibility, courage, and collaboration. It’s the people that create Aalto. We want to be an open community where equality and inclusion enable curiosity, innovation, collaboration, and wellbeing. Responsible and meaningful role with impact in our university’s and school’s success, and in the end, in the wellbeing and development of our society. We value work-life balance and well-being in all aspects of life. We work in a hybrid model, with the primary workplace located at the Otaniemi Campus in Espoo, Finland. Life on the revitalized campus is vibrant, featuring stunning architecture, tranquil nature, and a variety of cafes, restaurants, and services, all complemented by excellent public transportation connections. How to apply: Please upload your PDF application including your cv, motivation letter and a brief overview of your research projects, to our recruitment site. Please note: Aalto University’s employees should apply for the position via our internal HR system Workday (Internal Jobs) by using their existing Workday user account (not via the external webpage for open positions). If you are a student or visitor at Aalto University, please apply with your personal email address (not aalto.fi) via Aalto University open positions. The deadline for submitting your application is 21st of June 2026 at 23:59 (Eastern European time UTC +2) Applications will be reviewed by a team of researcher-practitioners, and shortlisted candidates will be invited for interviews. For more information about the role please contact Assistant Professor Katrin Greiling (Interior Architecture) +358 50 453 1453 / katrin.greiling@aalto.fi or Professor Antti Ahlava (Emergent Design Methodologies) +358 50 324 1179 / antti.ahlava@aalto.fi. For questions related to the application process, please contact HR Partner Enni Ailoranta, hr-arch@aalto.fi. Want to know more about us and your future colleagues? You can watch these videos: This is Aalto University! Aalto University – Towards a better world and Shaping a Sustainable Future. Read more about working at Aalto: https://www.aalto.fi/en/careers-at-aalto and check out our new virtual campus experience: https://virtualtour.aalto.fi About Finland Finland is a great place for living with or without family – it is a safe, politically stable and well-organized Nordic society. Finland is consistently ranked high in quality of life and was listed again as the happiest country in the world: World Happiness Report 2025 For more information about living in Finland: Aalto Careers for International Staff. More about Aalto University: Aalto.fi youtube.com/user/aaltouniversity linkedin.com/school/aalto-university/ www.facebook.com/aaltouniversity instagram.com/aaltouniversity To view information about Workday Accessibility, please click here. Please see more of our Open Positions here.

Liverpool John Moores University (LJMU) is a distinctive, unique institution, rooted in the Liverpool City Region and with a global presence. Our students and staff, past, present, and future, are the beating heart of our city and can be found in every corner of every industry and community. We couldn’t exist anywhere else and have shaped the city in which we belong. Working with the people of Liverpool to improve lives and support communities is at the heart of why we were founded and why we exist today. The School of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences is at the forefront of higher education in Biomedical Science, Forensic Science, Pharmacy and related areas, and has excellent working relationships with NHS, industry, law enforcement agencies and pharmaceutical providers. We are looking for a highly professional, enthusiastic and committed individual to join our team in Biomedical Sciences, with a specific interest in Immunology. You would have expertise in the immunological basis of disease and its investigation. You will have a PhD in Biomedical Science, Immunology or related area, together with research and teaching experience in the immune basis of disease and its investigation. You will be expected to contribute to teaching and administration of the School’s Foundation, BSc and MSc Biomedical Science programmes, in addition to teaching on other relevant undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in the school. You will complement existing research/teaching activities in the above areas within the school. You will be encouraged to develop your own research in conjunction with other members of the school, utilising the world-class research facilities available in the Life Science Building as well as in the James Parsons Building. In return, we offer an excellent benefits package including generous annual leave entitlement, pension scheme, induction and development support as well as family-friendly policies. This is an exciting time to join the university as we deliver the LJMU Strategy 2030 and its vision of LJMU as an inclusive civic university transforming lives and futures, by placing students at the heart of everything we do. If you feel that this is the role you have been looking for and your skills and experience can make a real difference at LJMU, we look forward to hearing from you. Informal enquiries can be made to Dr Garry McDowell g.mcdowell@ljmu.ac.uk LJMU is an equal opportunities employer and welcomes applicants from all backgrounds and communities irrespective of age, transgender status, disability, gender, sexual orientation, ethnicity and religion or belief. All our appointments are made on merit. Please note all of our vacancies will be closed to applications at midnight on the advertised closing date, unless otherwise stated.