Post-doctoral Fellow - Mount Lawley, Australia - Edith Cowan University
Description
Teachers of tomorrow choose ECU's School of Education because we are leaders in teacher education and education research.With over 5000 students and a proud history of teacher education since 1902, the School has consistently been recognised as one of the highest-ranking schools of education in Australia for student satisfaction.
Our dedicated staff is committed to equipping aspiring and practicing teachers with the skills, knowledge and experiences to positively impact the lives of students and communities.
Our teaching and research addresses the most critical challenges in the field, including teaching and learning; educational leadership; sport, health, and wellness; language, literacy, and numeracy; higher education pedagogy and curricular development; interdisciplinary and innovative research approaches; and educational equity in local, national, and international contexts.
An opportunity has arisen for suitably experienced and motivated emerging and early career researchers to join the School of Education.
The School of Education at Edith Cowan University has a research vision to transform lives through robust, engaged, and responsive research that positively impacts local and global education futures.
We believe that knowledge, when harnessed creatively and ethically, has the power to bring about profound change.Our research is committed to addressing the most critical challenges in education and fostering innovation that directly improves the wellbeing of individuals and communities on both a local and global scale.
Within the School of Education, you will be actively participating in a research community that focuses on Wellbeing and Education.
In this field, you will collaborate with a team that is at the forefront of research related to wellbeing, self-care and resilience within a range of educational contexts.
Our overarching goal is to emphasise proactive measures based on a wide range of evidence-based wellbeing science, aimed at promoting wellbeing at local, regional, national and global levels.
From this perspective, we consider wellbeing education within and across various sectors, including initial teacher education, schools, higher education, vocational education, and its impact on teachers, students, as well as society and the broader community.
Flourishing with our wellbeing
Growth and fixed mindset in wellbeing and self-care
Indigenous community and educator relationships/partnerships
Rural and regional teaching and wellbeing literacy
Interactions of arts, wellbeing and education in indigenous communities
Making, craft, and/or arts for/as wellbeing and self-care
Wellbeing literacy in educational contexts
Self-care and proactive ways of being
Wellbeing education
Initial teacher education wellbeing and self-care
Teacher wellbeing and self-care
Interdisciplinary approaches to wellbeing
Systems thinking and approaches to wellbeing and self-care
Positive education
Positive psychology and education wellbeing and self-care
Coaching education
Resilience education
Teacher resilience
Postdoctoral research fellowship:
Each Post-Doctoral Fellow will lead a program of work, informed by wellbeing science and located in the context of wellbeing education with alignment to qualitative methods or mixed methods.
Working with the ECU Vice Chancellor's Professorial Research Fellow and Executive Dean will contribute to research capacity building initiatives while working cooperatively with research partners and other key stakeholders.
Research dissemination and publication of results is expected with alignment to Field of Research (FOR) 39 as well as other interdisciplinary areas as relevant.
Potential research topics could include:
Wellbeing literacy in educational contexts
School wellbeing
Trauma-informed pedagogy
Mental health
Pedagogy of Belonging or Pedagogy of Care or Pedagogy of Kindness for systems approaches to wellbeing
Strengths based education and wellbeing and self-care
Educational leadership wellbeing
Higher education wellbeing and self-care
Community education wellbeing and self-care
Proposals are invited for a research project that aligns with the research community and work in the area of Wellbeing and Education and methodology that involves a one of or a combination of creative methods, qualitative methods, and/or mixed methods.
This full time Postdoctoral (x2) fixed term position attracts remuneration of $110,065 to $130,045 pa (ALEV B) plus 17% University superannuation contribution.
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