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The Australian National University, Canberra Australia
Faculty of Science
School of Psychology
Research Fellow
Academic Level B (similar to the level of Assistant/Associate Professor in the US system)
Fixed Term – 5 Years
Salary Range: $ 62,985- $ 74,313 pa plus 17% superannuation
Reference: FS 3144
The School of Psychology at The Australian National University wishes to appoint a research-only social psychologist for a period of five years. The successful applicant will work as part of a team of researchers led by Professor John C Turner and will play a high-level role in carrying out, managing and facilitating the conduct and publication of innovative experimental research including working on current and future Australian Research Council grants and supervising research students.
Applicants should hold a PhD in an area of experimental social psychology, be familiar with social identity and self-categorization theories and have an excellent record of publication and research in one or more relevant areas such as intergroup relations, social change, prejudice, illegitimacy, intergroup power relations, intergroup emotions, social influence, and self-categorization, personal identity and personality.
This is an exceptional opportunity for a talented researcher to strengthen their research expertise and profile as part of and fully supported by an enthusiastic and active research group. (Applicants with exceptional qualifications may be considered for appointment at Level C.)
The position is available immediately but the starting date is negotiable.
Selection Criteria: http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/jobs/ or from Jenny Sutton, T: +612 6125 2796, E: Jenny.Sutton@anu.edu.au
Enquiries: Professor John C. Turner E: John.Turner@anu.edu.au
Closing Date: Tuesday, 31 January 2006
Information for applicants: http://info.anu.edu.au/hr/Jobs/How_to_Apply/index.asp
Job Application Cover sheet: http://info.anu.edu.au/policies/Forms/Human_Resources/Recruitment/HR86.asp.
Further particulars:
General information: ANU and School of Psychology
The Australian National University is located in Canberra, the Australian Capital. Canberra is a medium-sized city with an educated population and very pleasant living conditions, including affordable housing close to the University and excellent public schools. Both the coast (with superb beaches) and the mountains (with excellent skiing) are within easy reach, as are the major cities of Sydney and Melbourne.
The Australian National University is consistently ranked as the leading university in Australia and one of the world’s top universities (e.g., ranked 56th in the Shanghai Jiao Tong University Institute of Higher Education’s Academic Ranking of World Universities). It has a unique history and structure, comprising the Faculties and the Institute of Advanced Studies linked by higher–order Colleges. It is the premier institution of higher education in Canberra and surrounding districts, and attracts well-qualified students. Psychology is a School within the Faculty of Science. The School emphasises the scientific basis of psychology, and strives for excellence in both teaching and research. It offers a full undergraduate program in psychology to honours level, covering broad areas of scientific research in psychology. It also offers general postgraduate training at Masters and PhD level, a specialised program in clinical psychology leading to the degrees of MClinPsych., DPsych (Clinical) and PhD (Clinical), and a graduate program in applied social and organizational psychology.
The School of Psychology has an academic establishment of 18 positions and eight support staff, plus a number of research-only grant-funded positions. It is broadly oriented toward scientific psychology, with particular research and teaching strengths in the areas of experimental social psychology, perception and cognition, clinical and health psychology and physiological psychology. Particular interests of staff members include social identity and self-categorization processes, intergroup relations and prejudice, social change and perceived illegitimacy, group processes, social cognition, power and justice, memory and attention, perceptual, linguistic, and cognitive development, visual cognition, movement control, behaviour and cardiovascular disease, drug and alcohol dependence, the psychophysiology of stress determinants and prevention of adolescent smoking, and child clinical psychology. Good computational, audio-visual, mechanical and electronic workshop facilities are available for research purposes. The University Library has a first class collection of journals and monographs and the National Library is conveniently close.
The Institute of Advanced Studies includes a number of groups in areas related to psychology, including the Centre for Visual Sciences in the Research School of Biological Sciences and the John Curtin School of Medical Research, the Research School of Social Sciences, and the Mental Health Research Centre. Members of the School of Psychology maintain close links with these groups and there are good opportunities for collaborative research.
Professor Turner’s research group
Professor Turner’s research group is currently funded by two Australian Research Council (ARC) grants for the period of the position: “From the inevitability of prejudice to the origins of social change: The emergence of perceived illegitimacy in intergroup relations” 2003-2007 inclusive (John Turner and Kate Reynolds) and “Self-categorization and personal identity: Integrating group and personality processes” 2006-2011 inclusive (Kate Reynolds, John Turner, Ken Mavor and Nyla Branscombe). Professor Turner is currently an Australian Professorial Fellow on the former grant and Kate Reynolds will be an Australian Research Fellow for the duration of the latter. Together these two grants represent approximately $1,400,000 of funding. The appointee will inter alia be working on these grants. The former is addressed to the problem of social change between groups of different status and power in society, in particular, how do subordinate groups who have hitherto accepted their position of inferiority come to reject it as illegitimate? What are the processes by which the legitimate authority of an institution or society comes to be redefined as illegitimate, provoking defiance and protest? The problem is approached from an intergroup perspective building on social identity theory and the self-categorization analysis of power. The latter grant is addressed to the development and elaboration of a new way of thinking about personality, one that sees it as created and shaped by contemporary group, social and ideological processes. It will have implications for understanding both the variability and stability of personality and how personality processes are intimately bound up with contemporary political and societal forces. The problem is approached from the perspective of the self-categorization analysis of personal identity.
The appointee will play a leading role in the design, conduct and authorship of publications of studies arising from these grants, and they will also be able to conduct collaborative and/or independent research in the School. They will be strongly encouraged to and supported in the publishing of their research. They will also be financially supported in attending relevant international conferences in social psychology. The appointee will join an active research group and contribute to and benefit from the work being done, but they will also have a exceptional opportunity to develop their research career and raise their international research visibility. The position is designed for and to benefit an outstanding researcher who wishes to take a significant step forward in their career.
The research group is located within the School of Psychology and there will be excellent opportunities for the applicant to work with other experimental social psychologists at ANU through joint publications, grants and supervision. In addition to Professor Turner, Dr Kate Reynolds and Dr Ken Mavor, social psychological researchers in the School of Psychology include Dr. Craig McGarty, Dr. Michael Smithson, Dr. Michael Platow, Dr. Barbara David and Dr. Rachael Eggins.
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