Postdoc Opportunities in International Relations in Australia

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...

The Australian National University is offering a fixed-term postdoctoral fellowship within the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, based in the Department of Political and Social Change and connected to the ANU Philippines Institute. The successful fellow will contribute to the ANU Philippines Project, an initiative designed to strengthen research partnerships between Australia and the Philippines and to improve access to high-quality policy research and analysis for policymakers in both countr...

This Research Fellow position at The University of Queensland sits within UQ Business School in the Faculty of Business, Economics and Law at the St Lucia campus. The role is part of a research initiative focused on the future of green and sustainable finance across the Asia-Pacific region, with particular attention to transition finance for heavy industry. The successful researcher will contribute to applied, policy-relevant work on pathways for heavy industry transition, especially the iron an...

This position is part of a new industry-linked research project at The University of Queensland focused on how AI data centres and critical minerals infrastructure can be planned more intelligently together. The role sits in the School of Chemical Engineering within the Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology, and is based at UQ’s St Lucia campus in Brisbane. The successful appointee will develop research on geospatial modelling and interactive decision-support tools for ...

The Research Officer will join the Anaemia Research (Pasricha) Laboratory at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, a leading biomedical research institute in Melbourne. The role supports an international research program carried out in collaboration with icddr,b in Bangladesh , with work centred on themes including nutrition , child development , and women’s health . This is a research-focused position within a lab that is engaged in collaborative studies spanning Melbourne an...

The University of Sydney is seeking a Postdoctoral Research Fellow to join the Centre for Education and Research on Ageing (CERA), within the Department of Geriatric Medicine at Concord Hospital and The University of Sydney Concord Clinical School. The Fellow will support the NHMRC-funded program “Optimising Care for Older Adults in Hospital: Innovative Education & Consumer Voices in Junior Doctor Education” . The research addresses ageing, geriatric care and medical education, with a strong emp...

This part-time postdoctoral fellowship sits within the Centre for Education and Research on Ageing at the University of Sydney and supports an NHMRC-funded program focused on improving care for older adults in hospital. The project, “Optimising Care for Older Adults in Hospital: Innovative Education & Consumer Voices in Junior Doctor Education” , combines ageing research, geriatric care, and medical education to strengthen how junior doctors learn about the care of older people. The successful c...

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...

This postdoctoral fellowship sits in the ANU Law School and supports an ARC Discovery Project on the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and its evolving role as the “World Court.” The project examines how the ICJ has become a global institution through an innovative blend of empirical, archival, qualitative and sociolegal research. The successful fellow will contribute to several strands of the project, including archival research, qualitative interviews, and the development of a novel dataset...