Senior Research Fellow

• Part time (0.6FTE) fixed term until 31 Dec 2027 for a Senior Research Fellow

• Opportunity to lead co-design and digital health research with direct impact across workplace inclusion, mental health, insurance, and rehabilitation systems

• Base Salary $97,408.20 + 17% superannuation

About the opportunity

This role sits within a multidisciplinary research team focused on improving workplace inclusion, mental health, and participation outcomes for people with disability and chronic health conditions through enhancing autonomy and decision making. The successful applicant will drive nationally significant projects including Pathways, THRIVE@WORK and Beyond the Tick Box, involving co-design, stakeholder engagement, implementation research, and translation across academic, health, and industry settings. The role offers the opportunity to contribute to research with direct policy, workplace, and community impact.

Your key responsibilities will be to:

• work closely with researchers, lived experience contributors, insurers, rehabilitation providers, employers, and digital design partners across workplace and insurance sector projects

• lead the co-production of digital decision support tools to improve workplace inclusion, insurance and compensation systems for people with invisible disabilities

• develop and evaluate better consent processes for mental health and clinical research settings

• undertake systematic reviews and other data syntheses in these areas to inform policy

• manage stakeholder engagement, workshops, and co-design activities with industry and lived experience partners

• lead ethics, governance, evaluation, reporting, publications and mixed-method research outputs including reports, presentations, publications, and funding applications.

About you

• a PhD in Medicine, Psychology or Health Sciences

• expertise in co-designing and evaluating digital tools focused on workplace inclusion, informed consent, and disability disclosure (including experience with Articulate)

• demonstrated experience working with insurers, rehabilitation providers, employers, lived experience contributors, and health service stakeholders to embed tools within real-world systems

• expertise in human research ethics and governance processes, including HREC committee membership, HREC applications, consent design, participant-facing materials, and ethical implementation within mental health and clinical research settings

• experience conducting systematic reviews and meta-analyses using software such as CMA (Comprehensive Meta-Analysis) and R Studio and applying evidence synthesis to intervention and tool development

• demonstrated track record in leading mixed-methods research, publications, competitive grant applications, and translation-focused research programs.

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 satisfactory maintenance of all relevant clearances and background check requirements. If you do not meet these conditions, the University may take any necessary step, including the termination of your employment.

As this position is located on an NSW Health site, it is a regulatory requirement to complete compulsory employment checks prior to starting in this position. For more information and instructions, please visit: NSW Health employment requirements

EEO statement

At the University of Sydney, our shared values are trust, accountability and excellence and we strive to be a place where everyone can thrive. We are committed to creating a university community that thrives through diversity and reflects the wider community that we serve. We deliver on this through our commitment to diversity and inclusion, evidenced by our people and culture programs, as well as key strategies to increase participation and support the careers of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people living with a disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and those who identify as LGBTQIA+. We welcome applications from candidates from all backgrounds.

We are proud to be recognised as an Australian Workplace Equality Index (AWEI) Platinum Employer. Find out more about our work on diversity and inclusion.

How to apply

Applications (including a cover letter, CV, and any additional supporting documentation) can be submitted via the Apply button at the top of the page.

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For a confidential discussion about the role, or if you require reasonable adjustment or any documents in alternate formats, please contact Danielle Selinger, Recruitment Consultant by email to [email protected]

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Applications Close

Friday 22 May 2026 11:59 PM