PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Psychology in Australia

The Australian Government Research Training Program (RTP) provides fully funded research scholarship opportunities for eligible Master’s and PhD candidates at participating Australian universities. Research projects are defined by the host universities and may span science, technology, health, engineering, agriculture, business and the humanities. This broad programme supports students undertaking advanced research within university departments, laboratories, research groups and other academic e...

This research-focused Research Fellow role is based in the Minerals Industry Safety and Health Centre (MISHC) within the Sustainable Minerals Institute and Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology at The University of Queensland. The position combines academic leadership with applied impact in a multidisciplinary environment, supporting education, training and research across the resources sector and other high-risk industries. The appointee will lead the Professional Deve...

This postdoctoral fellowship sits within the ARC Discovery Project Health, Biological Fitness and Environmental Diversity and focuses on a tightly connected set of questions at the interface of philosophy and biology. The successful fellow will help develop conceptual tools for understanding how the organism–environment interface shapes biological fitness, adaptation, and health. The project is based in the Theory and Methods in Bioscience group within Macquarie University’s Philosophy Disciplin...

Senior Research Fellow in Health Policy at the University of Sydney’s Sydney School of Public Health supports a nationally relevant, policy-facing research project on diabetes screening in children. The successful candidate will work with Associate Professor Sarah Norris on an MRFF-funded national qualitative study that explores policymakers’ perspectives on the potential use of polygenic risk scores for Type 1 Diabetes screening in children. The role is positioned within Australia’s first and l...

The University of Melbourne’s School of Learning Sciences is seeking a part-time postdoctoral researcher to contribute to a major Australian Research Council Linkage project on student wellbeing, engagement and learning across schooling. The researcher will lead key activities within a longitudinal, big-data education research program. The work involves planning and delivering longitudinal research, managing and analysing large education datasets, applying advanced quantitative and person-centre...

The University of Queensland’s Queensland Brain Institute is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to join a collaborative neuroscience team developing therapeutic approaches for Alzheimer’s disease. The laboratory works at the forefront of low-intensity ultrasound and improved anti-tau antibodies. The central challenge is enabling anti-tau antibodies to reach their intraneuronal targets in the brain. The successful researcher will contribute to the development of novel monoclonal antibody therapies...

This postdoctoral appointment sits in the School of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney and contributes to two ARC Discovery Projects: Genes germs and gender: the rise and impact of bioessentialism and Symbiotic Synergies: How the Body Became a Chimera (1950-2000) . The project focuses on developing and deploying bibliometric methods and AI-powered text analysis to identify concepts and conceptual patterns in very large bodies of text. The successful researcher will bui...

The University of Sydney is seeking a Research Fellow in Psychology (Gambling) to join Professor Sally Gainsbury and a multidisciplinary team at the Brain and Mind Centre in Camperdown. The role sits within an internationally renowned gambling research centre and focuses on applied research with direct relevance to gambling harm reduction, policy, and practice. The fellow will contribute to and independently lead projects on gambling, problematic risk taking, and decision making related to emerg...

The University of Sydney is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Associate to join a leading addiction medicine research program based at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney. The role sits within the Faculty of Medicine and Health and supports clinically oriented research on mental health, substance use disorders, neuroimaging and psychopharmacotherapy. Working under the direction of Professor Kirsten Morley , the successful candidate will collaborate with clinical partners and multidisciplinary u...