The Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship

To be eligible for the Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship - RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellowship, you must:

• be an Australian citizen
• not be a dual citizen of the U.S.
• be residing in Australia at the time of application (exceptions may apply)
• not have already commenced this degree or project in the U.S.
• not have held a J1 or J2 visa in the 24 months before program commences
• hold an undergraduate degree

• Applicants must provide a statement of how their research aligns with one or more of RMIT's Strategic Research Priority Areas and which Academic School best aligns with the research
• Must have a letter of invitation from proposed U.S. institution
• Must not hold a continuing academic appointment at RMIT University
• If awarded, must commence the fellowship at RMIT University prior to departure for Fulbright program

* Applicants may be in their final year of PhD research. PhD must be conferred before commencing. Career breaks may be considered.

Female-Only Recruitment Conditions

RMIT proudly holds an Athena SWAN Bronze Award for our commitment to improve gender equity and diversity.
Vice-Chancellor's Research Fellows are hosted in one of RMIT's Schools within one of our three academic Colleges.

To address the under-representation of women, there are some Schools where we will only appoint women, including those who identify as women or are gender diverse. This condition currently applies to the following Schools, noting these can be subject to change when RMIT reviews gender representation data on an annual basis:

• School of Computing Technologies
• School of Engineering
• School of Design

Section 12 of the Victorian Equal Opportunity Act 2010 permits the University to conduct female-only recruitment in addressing the substantive imbalance of female representation in the Schools listed above.

Appointment of the Vice-Chancellor's Postdoctoral Research Fellow will be on merit, taking into account strong alignment with RMIT’s areas of research focus and capability for impact linked to one or more of RMIT's Enabling Impact Platforms. 

We live in a world that is undergoing great change and uncertainty. Over the next decade, we will live and work through complex challenges in climate, security, inequality, health and wellbeing, technological revolutions, 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, the environment, and the economy, navigate these challenges.   

There are three areas of research priority for this round:  Regenerative Futures, Digital Innovation, and MedTech Innovation. 

Regenerative futures moves knowledges and practices beyond a sustainability framing to advance and accelerate societal efforts to restore, renew, reconstruct and revitalise human, ecological and material systems for inhabitable planetary futures. At RMIT researchers are building visionary interdisciplinary approaches to regenerative futures across the fields of technology, design, enterprise and society. 

The effort is oriented towards inclusion and justice, located in places on First Nations country, and centred on collaboration and partnerships with diverse stakeholders. Such collaborative approaches imply new approaches to local and planetary civics that can transform the structures and processes that shape how we govern our entangled planet. 

Medical technologies are revolutionising health outcomes and health expectations.  RMIT leads, and is investing in, areas including better disease diagnosis via advances in imaging, biosensors and biomarkers, as well as harnessing state-of-the-art smart materials such as optoelectronics, new bioinformatics and digital health AI-enabled tools. We are also engaging nanotechnology for health in areas ranging from nutrition to cancer, supporting community health across the lifespan. 

In all these areas, RMIT has a deep commitment to ensuring medical technologies are designed to make a practical contribution to clinical outcomes and health providers, supported by our range of partnerships and co-location initiatives with major hospitals, health providers, and community organisations. RMIT also has its own supporting infrastructure including the Micro Nano Research Facility (MNRF), Advanced Manufacturing Precinct (including digital manufacturing), and The Victorian Medical Device Prototyping and Scale-Up Facility – Discovery to Device, and the Accelerator for Translational Research in Clinical Trials (ATRACT) Centre, central to human clinical trials in cancer, ageing and infectious diseases with collaborators Australia-wide.  

Digital innovation is pivotal to our shared digital futures. Emerging digital technologies have created new businesses, pushed automation deep into economic administration and operations, and disrupted industries and ways of working. RMIT is deeply involved in shaping this digital future. We have national leadership in digital technologies for artificial intelligence, information retrieval, digital design, and digital manufacturing, coupled with a focus on human behaviour, digital harms reduction, digital care technologies, enhancing security and resilience with digital technologies, and digital technologies in education. In a future where businesses, governments, and citizens interact in previously unimagined ways, RMIT’s commitment is to advance world-leading and multidisciplinary digital innovation research for a prosperous and secure digital future.