Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Coastal Restoration Law Full-time

UQ Law School Research Position

This is an exciting opportunity to join a visionary, multidisciplinary team working on an Australian Research Council-funded project examining regulatory permitting for marine and coastal restoration. Embedded within a collaborative research environment spanning law, ecology, modelling and social science, you will undertake purposeful legal research that traces existing regulatory requirements, identifies opportunities for reform and helps evaluate how proposed reforms could support effective restoration. You will work closely with academic colleagues, computational modelling experts, government and industry collaborators to create research with practical and globally relevant impact.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Research: Undertake high-quality applied legal research aligned with the aims of the ARC Discovery Project, contribute to the co-design and delivery of the project, and produce research outputs for highly regarded law and environmental policy journals.
• Research collaboration and engagement: Work collaboratively across law, ecology, modelling and social science, communicate legal research effectively to multidisciplinary audiences, and engage constructively with government, industry and other research end users.
• Supervision and Researcher Development: Contribute to the effective supervision and development of Honours and Higher Degree by Research students, as appropriate, and support a responsible, inclusive and collaborative research culture.
• Citizenship and Service: Demonstrate UQ values through active participation in priority activities, internal service and administrative processes, support for colleagues, and the development of partnerships with government, industry, professional bodies and the wider community.

This is a Research Focused position. Further information can be found by viewing UQ's Criteria for Academic Performance.

The greater benefits of joining the UQ community are broad: from being part of a Group of Eight university, to recognition of prior service with other Australian universities, up to 26 weeks of paid parental leave, 17.5% annual leave loading, flexible working arrangements, access to exclusive internal-only vacancies, and genuine career progression opportunities via the academic promotions process.