[csaa-forum] Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) Scheme now open

Fri Apr 28 10:31:48 ACST 2017

The Macquarie University Research Fellowship (MQRF) Scheme is now open for initial Expressions of Interest.

Macquarie University (Sydney, Australia) will offer up to 10 full-time Research Fellowship positions commencing in 2018. Fellowships will be awarded on a competitive basis and will be fixed-term for three years. Applicants must have been awarded their PhD on or after 1 March 2014, or submit their thesis on or before 7 August 2017 (or make a convincing case for early career researcher status).

If you have an interest in applying for a Fellowship in the 2018 round through the Department of Philosophy<http://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-arts/departments-and-centres/department-of-philosophy>, please send:

  1.  Your current CV with list of publications, as an email attachment with your surname in the file name. Publications should be listed under the headings:  books, book chapters, peer-reviewed journal articles and other.
2. Provisional project title and a brief (200-word) project description, also as an attachment with your surname in the file name.

To Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au) by Friday 5 May 2017.

If the Department is able to sponsor your application, you will be notified by 10 May 2017. Sponsored applicants will then be invited to work with their sponsors to develop their formal Expressions of Interest which must be submitted to the University by 24 May 2017.

The Department has an excellent record of attracting successful MQRF postdoctoral applicants who have developed impressive research careers. A list of past and current postdoctoral fellows can be found here<http://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-arts/departments-and-centres/department-of-philosophy/research> (under the sub-headings ‘Postdoctorate’ and ‘Macquarie Postdocs’).

It is important that there is a good fit between the research interests of applicants and sponsors as well as with the University's Research Strengths<http://www.mq.edu.au/research/about-research-at-macquarie/research-strengths> or priority areas and the Faculty's transdisciplinary Research Themes<http://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-arts/research/faculty-research-themes> and Streams, which make a major contribution to the University Research Priority Areas of Resilient Societies<http://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/resilient-societies/centres/macquarie-university-research-centre-for-agency,-values-and-ethics> and Healthy People<http://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/healthy-people>.

For this reason, potential applicants are strongly advised to take these research priorities into account and to review the research profiles of potential sponsors from within the specific areas of research specialization in the Department of Philosophy. These can be viewed via the Department staff list at:

http://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-arts/departments-and-centres/department-of-philosophy/research

A list of academic staff including their individual research interests can be found here:

http://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-arts/departments-and-centres/department-of-philosophy/about-us/staff

As well as being the home of the Centre for Agency, Values, and Ethics (CAVE<http://www.mq.edu.au/research/research-centres-groups-and-facilities/resilient-societies/centres/macquarie-university-research-centre-for-agency,-values-and-ethics>), staff in the Department of Philosophy have research expertise in the following areas:

  *   Mind, Meaning, and Metaphysics
(Philosophy of mind and cognition, the philosophy of biology and philosophy of science, pragmatism, philosophy of race, epistemology and scientific metaphysics)

  *   Social Philosophy, European Philosophy, and Aesthetics
(Existential phenomenology and hermeneutics, social and political philosophy particularly in the Hegelian/post-Hegelian tradition, continental aesthetics and poststructuralism, ‘Frankfurt School’ critical social theory, recognition theory and theories of work, aesthetics and philosophy of film)

  *   Ethics and Applied Ethics
(Moral psychology and moral cognition, autonomy, moral responsibility, conceptions of selfhood and agency, neuroethics, Kantian ethics and political philosophy, human dignity, moral evil, normative and applied ethics focusing on philosophy of the family, parenting, and child welfare, feminist philosophy, ethics and regulation of innovative surgery and surgical research, definitions of disease and the ethics of overdiagnosis)

For further information about the Department please consult our website<http://www.mq.edu.au/about/about-the-university/faculties-and-departments/faculty-of-arts/departments-and-centres/department-of-philosophy/about-us> or for any other queries concerning the MQRF scheme please contact Dr Robert Sinnerbrink.

Dr Robert Sinnerbrink

Senior Lecturer & Australian Research Council Future Fellow

Department of Philosophy  |   Level 7, W6A Building
Balaclava Rd
Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia

T: +61 2 9850 9935  |  F: +61 2 9850 8892 | robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au<mailto:robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au>

Staff Profile<http://www.mq.edu.au/about_us/faculties_and_departments/faculty_of_arts/department_of_philosophy/staff/robert_sinnerbrink>

Academia Page<https://mq.academia.edu/RobertSinnerbrink>

New Book: Cinematic Ethics<https://www.routledge.com/products/9781138826168>

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