Research Fellow – Philosophy

Job No.: 640593

Location: Clayton campus

Employment Type: Part-time, fraction (0.7)

Duration: 3-year fixed-term appointment

Remuneration: Pro-rata of $72,927 – $98,975 pa Level A (plus 17% employer superannuation)

• Be inspired, every day
• Drive your own learning at one of the world’s top 80 universities
• Take your career in exciting, rewarding directions

Everyone needs a platform to launch a satisfying career. At Monash, we give you the space and support to take your career in all kinds of exciting new directions. You’ll have access to quality research, infrastructure and learning facilities, opportunities to collaborate internationally, as well as the grants you’ll need to publish your work. We’re a university full of energetic and enthusiastic minds, driven to challenge what’s expected, expand what we know, and learn from other inspiring, empowering thinkers.

The Opportunity

The successful candidate for this position will help realise the aims of the Australian Research Council Discovery Projects grant DP220102952: Artificial Intelligence, Robots, and Agriculture: Social and ethical issues. In particular, they will draw on their expertise in empirical bioethics and/or deliberative methods to assist in running dialogue groups and citizens’ juries and analysing the data they produce in order to help: investigate the social and ethical issues that key stakeholders anticipate from the applications of AI and robotics in agriculture; and, determine what farmers, consumers, and rural communities want from AI and robotics when it comes to their use in agriculture.

Key responsibilities include: 

• The conduct of research under limited supervision either as a member of a team or, where appropriate, independently and the production or contribution to the production of conference and seminar papers and publications from that research
• Involvement in professional activities including, subject to availability of funds, attendance at conferences and seminars in the field of expertise
• Limited administrative functions primarily connected with the area of research of the academic.

The appointee will have a doctoral qualification in Philosophy, in the area of applied ethics, or bioethics, or a closely related field. Demonstrable expertise in empirical bioethics and/or deliberative methods, or demonstrable capacity to acquire such expertise within 6 months of appointment and familiarity with debates about the ethics of robotics and/or agricultural ethics is highly desirable. This position will report directly to the lead Chief Investigator on the project but will also be expected to work closely with the other CIs.

This role is a part-time position; however, flexible working arrangements may be negotiated. 

Your application must address the selection criteria. Please refer to  “How to apply for Monash Jobs “.

Enquiries

Professor Robert Sparrow, Philosophy, +61 3 9905 3244

Position Description

 Research Fellow

Closing Date

Thursday 13 October 2022, 11:55pm AEDT

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