"Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Participatory Design)"

Job Description:

• School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
• Part-time (40%), fixed-term position through to April 2027
• Base salary will be in the range $82,057.75 - $109,246.18+ 17% Superannuation (Academic Level A)
• Based at our St Lucia Campus

About This Opportunity

We’re looking for a passionate Postdoctoral Research Fellow (Participatory Design) to join a national concussion research initiative. You’ll lead participatory design sessions and co-create interactive prototypes with a wide range of stakeholders—from patients and clinicians to children—in a major study supporting the uptake of the new Australian and New Zealand Concussion Guidelines (https://anzconcussionguidelines.com).

Working with a world-class team of neurologists, GPs, neuropsychologists, implementation scientists, and human-centred designers, you’ll help translate cutting-edge research into real-world clinical impact across Australia. This is a unique opportunity to shape a transformative health initiative with national significance.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Research:
  • Planning and facilitating in-person and online participatory design activities involving diverse stakeholders.
  • Designing and prototyping interactive technologies and systems for evaluation with clinicians, patients, health professionals, parents and children.
  • Working closely with healthcare professionals, researchers, and industry partners to promote the uptake of the guidelines, foster relationships, and ensure effective knowledge translation to end-users.
  • Authoring high-quality research publications, contributing to competitive grant applications, and supporting the supervision and development of students and early career researchers in the field.
• Supervision and Researcher Development: Supervise honours and higher degree students, provide performance feedback and training, and resolve conflicts.
• Citizenship and Service: Develop partnerships, demonstrate leadership through mentoring, engage in internal service roles and committees, perform administrative functions, provide support to colleagues, and uphold university values.

This is a research focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ’s Criteria for Academic Performance.

About You

• Completion of a PhD in human-centred design or a closely related field.
• An emerging profile in research in participatory design, interaction design, or a closely related field.
• Experience creating participatory design and analysis methods tailored to specific contexts of technology use.
• Evidence of technical ability to develop interactive prototypes for design, research and evaluation.
• Leading authorship of publications in esteemed peer-reviewed journals and/or highly-ranked conferences.
• Evidence of contributions towards successfully obtaining external research funding.
• Some experience in meaningful internal service roles and contributions towards external activities.

The successful candidate may be required to complete a number of pre-employment checks, including: right to work in Australia, education check, mandatory immunisations, blue card check. You must maintain unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this appointment to apply. Employer sponsored work rights are not available for this appointment.

Want to Apply?

We welcome applications from all individuals and are committed to an inclusive and accessible recruitment process. To be considered, please ensure you upload: Resume, Cover letter responding to the ‘About You’ section.