There are many Ph.D. candidates who are near-submission or who have recently been conferred. For these brave souls, entering the workforce at such a tumultuous time is even more tricky with additional CORONAverse pressures.
Where I can, I share news of any Research Assistant (RA), Internships, Postdocs or Fellowship opportunities I come across here on the blog, like the PhD interns role offered by APR Interns working on young war vetrans medical support project or the opportunity to do a PhD in Transport and Equity (with a bike specific component) on a full scholarship.
I have also created some of these roles as part of this blog especially for overseas students, like the BCC 8-week Summer Internship Intensive I ran with the four amazing budding-professionals Sachie, Mauricio, Juliet & Gabriel as well as taking on Research Assistant Nao Kamakura.
This Summer, I’ve had three particularly interesting research opportunities sent to me which I am sharing below for anyone who might be interested.
These 3 research positions are based in Australia and have a good range of topics, disciplines, and locations. I’ve grabbed some key details from each to get started – see below.
It is difficult to find suitable postgrad RA, Internship, Post Doc or Fellowships – so if this is you, I wish you all the best!
1. Griffith Uni Peacebuilding Project: Research Assistant
Project: Local, place-based, and community-driven approaches to peacebuilding
A Research Assistant is needed for a research project: Local, place-based, and community-driven approaches to peacebuilding funded by the British Academy and Leverhulme Trust and co-led by the University of Glasgow (Scotland) and Griffith University (Australia).
The project will bring together the voices and perspectives of diverse actors working on building peace in their communities to share their experiences and advice and to learn from each other. Please see the attached document for the project description.
Duration: 30-35 hrs. Start date: Immediate. Salary: TBD re Griffith PayScale .
Duties:
- Involvement with and (networking opportunities with international stakeholders) in:
- collaborative and participatory research
- multiple phases or aspects of the larger research project including:
- Participant Recruitment
- Coordinating knowledge mobilization efforts with and to different stakeholder audiences
- Reviewing and synthesizing literature in relation to the project
- Participating webinars and note-taking for Focus Group Discussions
- In addition to the above, other tasks that arise may be included to advance the research and transforming practice agenda.
Qualifications:
- Strong communication capabilities with proactive attitude
- Ideally, in as many of the following areas:
- Peace, Conflict, Reconciliation, Indigenous Education, International Development, qualitative methods (Open to any HDR students in AEL)
- Excellent organizational skills.
Interested individuals, please send an email to (eun-ji.kim@griffith.edu.au) by March 5th, Friday by 3:00pm with CV.
2. Australian Parliamentary Fellowship
The Australian Parliamentary Fellowship open to PhD graduates who graduated within the last 3 years.
Do you have a PhD which has been awarded within the last three years with an interest in public policy, the environment, science & technology, natural resources, foreign affairs, social policy, law, statistics or economics? Would you like to apply your research skills in the parliamentary environment? The Australian Parliamentary Fellowship is managed by the Parliamentary Library on behalf of the Parliament.
The purpose of the Fellowship is to:
- contribute to scholarship on the Parliament and its work
- promote knowledge and understanding of the Parliament
- raise awareness of the role of the Library’s Research service
- provide a researcher with work experience in the parliamentary environment
- and support ECR (early career scholars/researchers).
The Fellowship is of flexible duration (up to 6 months full time with provision for part time or broken periods of employment) in the Research Branch of the Parliamentary Library.
A successful applicant for the 2021 Fellowship would be expected to take up the position in the second quarter of 2021.The Fellow will be required to research and write a monograph on an approved project.
Applications close 31st January, 2021.
3. 22 new WA & NZ Prospect Fellows positions
A new post-doctoral fellowship program, funded by the Forrest Research Foundation, will be offering up to 22 new post-doctoral fellowships of 18 months duration, to be held at any of Western Australia’s five universities.
The disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in reduced opportunities for recent Ph.D. graduates to pursue post-doctoral research. In response, the Forrest Research Foundation is investing $3 million in 22 new post-doctoral fellowships of 18 months duration – the Prospect Fellowships.
These Prospect Fellowships are open to Australian and New Zealand citizens and Australian permanent residents who have completed their PhD on or after 1 January 2019. Applicants must have an outstanding academic profile, and must provide evidence (e.g. Dean’s list, university or other prizes, publications and other outputs) that they are among the top 5% of recent PhD graduates in their field.
Applicants may come from any disciplinary background but their proposed research must be focused on one of six areas of Western Australian research excellence:
- Indian Ocean (to include e.g. marine science and engineering, geo-politics, economics)
- Agriculture, food and nutrition
- Environment and natural resources (to include e.g. extractive industries, ecology, conservation)
- Frontier technologies (to include e.g. space science, AI, bio-engineering, nano-technology)
- Mental and physical health and well-being (to include e.g. medicine, human bio-sciences)
- Arts and culture