Deadline: 5-Jul-23
The University of Sydney is accepting applications for the Sydney Horizon Fellowships that aims to create new research capacity by empowering early and mid-career researchers to undertake innovative research that will build the understanding of and resilience to climate change, improve health outcomes, and create a more sustainable world.
To build on this performance, the University’s Sydney Horizon Fellowships will establish an integrated and cohesive community of outstanding researchers to address the world’s greatest challenges. Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing their world today and affects not only the environment but all areas of human and environmental health and stability. A more sustainable and healthier world must be reimagined to improve lives, ecosystems, and the potential of future generations.
The Sydney Horizon Fellowship aims to attract and retain the best and brightest emerging academics, with outstanding research track records on a rising trajectory, who are deeply committed to research that has real world impact and who are willing to work across different disciplines to develop innovative solutions to global challenges. The Horizon Fellows will be appointed as continuing research and teaching academics. Upon commencement, the first three years of the five-year fellowship program will be focused on research, with a minimum of 80% dedicated to research and the final two years will see a transition to a balanced teaching and research workload, with more time dedicated to teaching.
The Sydney Horizon Fellowships will create scale and focus in areas of current and emerging research strengths of the University’s faculties and multidisciplinary initiatives. The Sydney Horizon Fellowships are open to all disciplines. Applicants must propose research that addresses at least one of the challenges of climate change, health or sustainability. Horizon Fellows will be supported to join existing Centres and form new communities of practice across the schools and faculties of the University.
To be successful in this role you will:
- be a researcher performing at the highest level of the equivalent academic level (Levels B/C), relative to opportunity, in at least one of the defined challenges
- be undertaking significant and innovative research which is aligned with the objectives of the Sydney Horizon Fellowship program and the host Faculty, and which is multidisciplinary in nature
- foster a culture of impactful collaborations and partnerships.
Research Challenges
- Climate change, health, and sustainability are three of their most pressing contemporary challenges. Drawing on and developing their disciplinary and multidisciplinary skills, Fellows will address these challenges and advance potential solutions. The latter may include the development of novel technologies, biomedical, legal, business, design, policy, and political instruments.
- Fellows will be supported to join existing Centres and form new communities of practice across the schools and faculties of the University, working together to address the three grand challenges.
- Climate change: Climate change is one of the most pressing issues facing their world today. A changing climatic system is already having impacts on societal and environmental health and on economic stability and sustainability.
- Health: Their Sydney Horizon Fellowship scheme also focuses on the challenge of creating and maintaining healthy societies in an increasingly complex and connected world.
- Sustainability: Sustainability is another critical area of focus for their Sydney Horizon Fellowship scheme, where they aim to address and impact the broad range of UN Sustainable Goals.
Fellowship Benefits
- Each successful applicant will receive:
- a continuing position (subject to confirmation) that starts with a five-year research-focused fellowship, which includes training and mentorship to develop academic leadership skills and up to AUD$100,000 per annum in research funding,
- a competitive salary, ranging from AUD$113,000-$160,000, + 17% superannuation (pension fund).
- Fellows will be supported to achieve their ambitions by an integrated and diverse ecosystem of researchers, spanning their many faculties, schools and dedicated research centres.
Eligibility Criteria
- Applicants must:
- be less than ten years since the award of their PhD (or equivalent) at the closing date of the application, relative to opportunity,
- commit to working on the Fellowship from the agreed start date of the award,
- obtain and maintain the right to work in Australia,
- apply via the Sydney Horizon Fellowships application page – applications, including attachments and questionnaire responses will not be accepted via other methods.
- Applicants will be asked to provide their ORCID iD (where available) in their application to assist with the assessment process.
- The Sydney Horizon Fellowships are open to all disciplines. Applicants must propose research that addresses at least one of the challenges of climate change, health or sustainability.
For more information, visit Sydney Horizon Fellowships.