RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Research Fellowships
Great minds. Real world impact.
Great minds. Real world impact.
For this round, our focus is on building a supportive, embracing, and safe environment for researchers, and transdisciplinary capability in Regenerative and Sustainable Futures, MedTech Innovation, and Digital Innovation. Positions are available for Indigenous Principal Research Fellows, Indigenous Senior Research Fellows, Indigenous Research Fellows, and Indigenous Postdoctoral Research Fellows.
The RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellowships program enables Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers to flourish and make a difference in areas that matter for our communities and our future. If you are ambitious and enjoy working in team environments to achieve impact from your excellent research, we invite you to apply to become an RMIT Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellow.
Acknowledging Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people’s care for Country over millennia, we live in a world that is undergoing great change and uncertainty. Over the coming decades, we will live and work through complex challenges in climate, security, inequality, health and wellbeing, technological evolutions, and emerging social movements. RMIT University is committed to work with our partners and communities to find new solutions and apply transdisciplinary approaches to help society navigate through these complex challenges.
Appointment of Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Research Fellows will be on merit, taking into account strong alignment with the areas of research focus and high-priority topics. These areas of research support RMIT's strategy for research and innovation for impact, which is expressed by way of six desired futures - all aimed at societal, environmental, and economic impact beyond academia.
Applications are now open at Academic levels A to D in three Strategic Research Priority Areas, as follows:
Advancing regenerative and sustainable practices to restore, renew and revitalise social, economic, and environmental systems.
Revolutionising health outcomes and health expectations through innovation in medical technologies.
Advancing world-leading and multidisciplinary digital innovation research for a prosperous and secure digital future.
RMIT’s Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellowships are open to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander researchers who are outstanding in their field and who meet the eligibility and selection criteria.
Vice-Chancellor’s Indigenous Research Fellowships are not offered to RMIT employees with current ongoing academic appointments.
Applicants must:
Additional eligibility criteria may apply. Please refer to the specific eligibility criteria under each of the Fellowship categories.
Applications close on Tuesday, 1 September
at 11:59 pm (before midnight) Australian Eastern Standard Time.
Applications for the RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Research Fellowships are now OPEN.
Pro Vice Chancellor for Indigenous Education talk about how RMIT is transitioning through Reconciliation to Responsible Practice.
If you have any questions about the VC Fellowship or application process, please contact the Vice-Chancellor's Indigenous Research Fellowships Team using the email below.
Email: researchfellowships@rmit.edu.au.
RMIT is a multi-sector university of technology, design and enterprise. The University’s mission is to help shape the world through research, innovation and engagement, and to create transformative experiences for students to prepare them for life and work. For more information on RMIT University explore the links below.
Our three main campuses in Melbourne are located in the heart of the City, Brunswick and Bundoora. Other locations include Point Cook, Hamilton and Bendigo, two campuses in Vietnam (Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City) and a centre in Barcelona, Spain. RMIT is a truly global university.
We are also committed to redefining our relationship in working with, and supporting, Indigenous self-determination. Our goal is to achieve lasting transformation by maturing our values, culture, policy and structures in a way that embeds reconciliation in everything we do. We are changing our ways of knowing, working and being to support sustainable reconciliation and activate a relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous staff, students and community. Our three campuses in Melbourne (City, Brunswick and Bundoora campuses) are located on the unceded lands of the people of the Woi Wurrung and Boon Wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation.
This initiative supports the HR Excellence in Research Award, which is recognised by the European Commission for institutions that make progress in aligning their human resources policies to the European Charter for Researchers and The Code of Conduct for the Recruitment of Researchers. The standards support researchers and includes general principles on the roles, responsibilities and entitlements of researchers, employers and funders, and a commitment to the advancement of research.
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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