Senior Research Fellow

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Join the University of Sydney as a Senior Research Fellow in the team of Professor Robert Sanders , Nuffield Chair of Anaesthetics, and play a leading role in advancing high-impact research that strengthens the University's standing as a national and international leader in health and clinical research. This is an outstanding opportunity for an established researcher with a strong scholarly track record, national recognition in their field, and a passion for translating research into meaningful outcomes across healthcare, policy, and practice. Working with a high degree of autonomy, you will lead strategically aligned research initiatives, build and sustain impactful collaborations across academia, industry, and government, and secure competitive research funding to support innovative programs of work. As a recognised subject matter expert, you will provide intellectual leadership, exercise independent judgement on complex matters, and contribute to shaping the research direction and broader strategic priorities. Beyond research excellence, you will play an important leadership role within the academic community - mentoring researchers, contributing to governance and faculty initiatives, and fostering a collaborative, inclusive, and high-performing culture. Through your scholarship, partnerships, and translational research activities, you will help deliver outcomes that influence clinical practice, policy development, and future research innovation. Your key responsibilities will be to: lead and deliver innovative, independent neuroimaging, EEG and patient data research that advances knowledge and practice within the discipline, while building a strong reputation for academic excellence drive research impact through high-quality publications, knowledge dissemination, scholarly engagement, and contributions to national and international academic forums secure and lead competitive research funding opportunities, including grants and other research income streams, to support strategic research initiatives foster research excellence by maintaining high standards of quality, compliance, and integrity across all research activities and outputs provide leadership, mentoring, and academic guidance to early and mid-career researchers, supporting capability development and career progression build strategic partnerships across academia, industry, government, and the broader community, while contributing to governance, faculty initiatives, and a collaborative, high-performing culture. About you Completed PhD in a relevant discipline with significant published experience in neuroimaging research, including normative modelling, machine learning and track-weighted functional connectivity analyses Demonstrated significant experience conducting original research and scholarly activity, with a strong track record of advancing knowledge within your discipline familiarity with delirium research, including longitudinal cohort data health research experience: ideally with population or other large datasets recognised at a national level for your research expertise, academic leadership, and influential contributions to your field proven experience supervising, mentoring, and developing researchers and academic staff across varying career stages extensive experience in developing and working on research projects, including expertise in preparing research protocols, experimental design, ethics submissions and grant applications an established network of academic, industry, and professional partners and stakeholders, with the ability to leverage strategic relationships to enhance institutional impact and reputation sound understanding of the strategic priorities and emerging issues within the higher education and research sectors, with the ability to align research initiatives to broader organisational goals. Sponsorship / work rights for Australia You must have unrestricted work rights in Australia for the duration of this employment to be eligible to apply. Visa sponsorship is not available for this appointment. Pre-employment checks and declarations Your employment is conditional upon the successful completion of all pre-employment or background checks required for the role in terms satisfactory to the University. Also, to meet the University's obligations under the National Higher Education Code to Prevent and Eliminate Gender-Based Violence you will be asked to declare if you have been investigated for, or found to engaged in, sexual harm or gender-based violence in the course of previous employment or in a legal process. Similarly, your ongoing employment is conditional upon the satisfac

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Part time 0.4 FTE fixed term until 31/12/26 Lead nationally recognised clinical research, influence health policy and practice, and shape the future of translational research at The University of Sydney Central Clinical School Academic Level C Base Salary $162,347- $ 187,198 pro-rata p.a. + 17% superannuation

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