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

Griffith University Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme (GUPF) supports early career researchers to develop and lead their own research projects at Griffith University. The scheme is organised through the university’s internal research grants process and is positioned as a recurring opportunity for researchers at an early stage after PhD completion. The program is managed across Griffith’s academic groups, including Arts, Education and Law , Griffith Business School , Griffith Health , Griffith Scien...

Centre for Deliberative Democracy, University of Canberra This postdoctoral fellowship sits within the University of Canberra’s Centre for Deliberative Democracy in the Faculty of Business, Government and Law. The project examines how major international conflicts shape public debate, social cohesion, and democratic life in Australia, with a particular focus on the ways the Israel-Palestine and Russia-Ukraine conflicts spill over into the Australian public sphere. The fellowship is part of an Au...

The Australian National University is seeking a Research Fellow for the School of Demography to support an ARC project on Delivering Anindilyakwa data governance . Working under the direction of the project CIs, the successful candidate will contribute practical and reliable research to strengthen the capacity of the Data Unit, including research support, analysis, write-up of project results, and presentation of findings at domestic and international conferences. The role sits within the ANU Sc...

CSIRO Industry PhD Program Project 2 is a four-year research training opportunity at Monash University focused on enabling migration to post-quantum cryptography (PQC). The project addresses the challenge of securing critical infrastructure against quantum attacks by developing techniques and frameworks that support trusted PQC migration. The PhD is part of the CSIRO Industry PhD Program, which combines university research with CSIRO and industry participation. The student will work in an applie...

Monash University is offering a PhD opportunity through the Monash Energy Institute and its sponsoring faculties in Information Technology, Monash Business School, and Engineering. The project is based at the Caulfield or Clayton campuses and is designed for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates whose research will advance First Nations peoples’ interests in the Australian energy transition. The advert invites proposals that engage with the energy transition in ways that are meanin...

This PhD stipend scholarship at Monash University invites a student to develop an original research project in human-animal interactions . The opportunity is based in the School of Primary and Allied Health Care at Monash’s Peninsula campus , and is shaped around the supervisory expertise of Dr Em Bould and a broader multidisciplinary team. The project direction is intentionally open, allowing the successful candidate to propose their own research program while building on existing work in anima...

This PhD project sits within the CSIRO Industry PhD scholarship program and is hosted at Monash University in collaboration with CSIRO and Maincode. The research focuses on self-evolving agentic AI : autonomous AI agents that can continue learning, reorganise how they collaborate, and improve as their environments, tasks, and information change over time. The project addresses a major limitation of many current agent frameworks: they are largely static, with predefined knowledge and coordination...

Monash University is offering a Research Fellow position based in the Warren Centre for Civil Justice within the Faculty of Law at Clayton campus and the Monash University Law Chambers. The successful candidate will join a team working on Redesigning Digital Justice , an ARC Discovery Project focused on improving the design methods and technologies used in online hearings. The project brings together law and human-computer interaction research to advance online justice systems by developing desi...

The University of Sydney is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate in Digital Humanities and Philosophy of Science to develop computational methods for analysing how concepts are used in academic writing, news media, social media, and other large text collections. Based in the School of History and Philosophy of Science, the researcher will contribute to the ARC Discovery Projects Genes, germs and gender: the rise and impact of bioessentialism and Symbiotic Synergies: How the Body Became a Ch...