Research Fellow Futures Anthropology (closing 19 Aug)
We are recruiting a Research Fellow, FUTURES anthropology
The Emerging Technologies Research Lab (ETLab) is co-located across the Faculties of Art, Design and Architecture and Information Technology. ETLab is an interdisciplinary and international research and knowledge community. We investigate the futures, present and past of our social, experiential and political worlds.
This Research Fellow position is an exceptional and exciting opportunity for an outstanding, innovative, and flexible researcher with experience and qualifications in anthropology and an interest in developing futures anthropology, and a commitment to theoretical, methodological and ethnographic innovation. The successful candidates will participate in generating ground-breaking theoretical and empirical research, engagement and impact. They will be amongst the first appointments to Professor Sarah Pink’s Laureate Fellowship group which will ultimately involve four Research Fellows, three PhD students and a professional staff member.
The Research Fellows will undertake research related to digital and net zero transitions across one or more of the themes of home, work and urban futures. They will employ and innovate in approaches developed in visual, design and futures anthropology, including literature based, ethnographic, video and photography-based, design futures, workshop and speculative methods. In addition to delivering top quality academic research and scholarship they will lead, contribute to or participate in diverse modes of dissemination including industry- and government-accessible reports, video and photographic, public scholarship, and academic peer refereed publications.
The Research Fellows will be active participants in FUTURES Hub, a communication, meeting and dissemination point for Futures research and activity connected to Sarah Pink's ARC Laureate Fellowship 'The Impact of Future Human Values and Practices on Australia's Digital and Net Zero Transitions'. FUTURES Hub also connects related futures focused work of ETLab and its FUTURES community of engaged scholars and partners from industry, government, not-for-profit and other sectors.
The Laureate Fellowship programme involves fieldwork across Australia. It is a requirement of this position that the Research Fellow should be able and available to be based at Monash University in Melbourne and undertake fieldwork for extended periods of time in Victoria, New South Wales and Western Australia.