PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Film Studies in Australia

The Australian National University is seeking two Postdoctoral Fellows at Academic Level A or B in Canberra, Australia. The positions are based in the ANU College of Law, Governance and Public Policy and are funded for up to three years by a National Critical Research Infrastructure grant. The interdisciplinary project focuses on ethical governance of stem cell lines in Australia, particularly consent processes for historical samples and prospective stem cell lines. Research areas include law an...

UNSW is advertising a Postdoctoral Fellow position on the ARC Discovery Project Artists and Generative AI: Copyright and Private Regulation of Creativity . The role is based at the UNSW Paddington Campus, Sydney, NSW, Australia , and is a full-time fixed-term appointment from May 2027 until 3 November 2028 . The successful candidate will join a project that examines generative AI , AI media generation, system behaviour, and content or “inspiration” attribution. The work involves systematic compu...

Research Fellow – Climate Adaptation, Grief and Loss at Southern Cross University (Lismore, NSW, Australia) is a fixed-term research position focused on climate change adaptation, grief and loss, Indigenous studies, human geography, social science, and wellbeing. The successful candidate will work within the Gnibi College of Indigenous Australian Peoples on the REVIVE project, an international collaboration with Southern Cross University and King’s College London. The project examines how commun...

PhD opportunity in Evaluating Clinical AI in Real-Time at The University of Queensland , through the Queensland Digital Health Centre and the NASCENT initiative (National Infrastructure for Real-time Clinical AI Trials). This funded doctoral project focuses on how artificial intelligence can be safely and effectively evaluated in real-world healthcare settings. The position is designed for a student interested in clinical AI , digital health , and the responsible deployment of AI in practice. Po...

PhD opportunity at the University of Sydney in the Early-life Microbiome and Immunity group led by Archita Mishra . The project explores the foundations of human immunity before birth and how the developing immune system is shaped during fetal life. Research themes include immunology , microbiome , human development , and fetal development , with methods such as spatial transcriptomics , single-cell approaches , and tissue imaging . This is a strong fit for students interested in developmental b...

Fully funded 3.5-year PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne , School of Computing and Information Systems, in Australia . Research topic: Strategy extraction and generalisation for AI agents . The project focuses on developing new methods for AI agents to learn strategic knowledge from observed behaviour and transfer that knowledge to new tasks with different representations. The work builds on sequence alignment techniques, ontological reasoning, strategy transfer, and policy learning....

PhD opportunity at the University of Newcastle, Australia on Progressive Voices/Movements in Islamic Theology in the (Post-)Secular Society of 21st Century . This project invites research in Islamic theology , especially Islamic liberation theology approaches, with an evidence-based (rather than faith-based) methodology in the Humanities or Social Sciences . The topic is framed around progressive/reformist movements in Islam and their responses to contemporary challenges such as radicalization, ...

University of Canberra is advertising a Postdoctoral Fellow position in the Centre for Deliberative Democracy within the Faculty of Business, Government and Law. The project is titled Foreign Conflicts, Domestic Divides: Advancing a Deliberative Response and is funded by the Australian Research Council Discovery Project . The research examines how major international conflicts, especially Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine , shape public debate, social cohesion, and democratic life in Australia...

La Trobe University and IIT Kanpur are offering a Joint PhD Program Scholarship for research in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, smart grids, electrical engineering, IoT, and data analytics . The featured project focuses on AI-based anomaly and vulnerability detection of smart grids , with a specific emphasis on defending against GAN attacks and developing robust countermeasures for cyber-physical power systems. This is a PhD opening for candidates who want to work across Australia and In...