Posted: 17 June
The role
Graduate Researcher Academic Associate
Position Number: 0064136
Location: Parkville
Role type: Part‐time; Fixed‐term for 12 months (full‐time: min. FTE 0.2, max. FTE 0.3; part‐time: min. FTE 0.1, max. FTE 0.15)
Faculty: Melbourne Law School
Salary: Level A.2 – $88,228 pro rata for part time, p.a. plus 17% super (pro rata for part time)
Benefits
- Career‐advancing professional development, including minimum 30 hours paid professional development
- Salary packaging, subsidised health and wellbeing services, fitness and cultural clubs, Myki discounts
- 25% discount on graduate courses for staff and immediate families
About the Role
The Graduate Researcher Academic Associate (GRAA) will support one or more of the MLS Research Hubs during 2025 and contribute to teaching and academic life at the School.
- Environmental Rights and Responsibilities (Semester 1)
- Intellectual Property Law (Semester 1)
- Legal Language (Semester 1)
- Sport and the Law (Semester 1)
- AI, Ethics and the Law (Semester 2)
- Free Speech and Media Law (Semester 2)
- Global Human Rights Law (Semester 2)
- Public Trials (Semester 2)
- JD Remedies
- JD Media Law
- Digital Platform Regulation (Summer Intensive) – 27/01/2025 to 07/02/2025
- Consumer Law (Winter Intensive) – 09/06/2025 to 20/06/2025
- Science, Technology and the Law (Winter Intensive) – 30/06/2025 to 11/07/2025
Research Hubs
- Asian Law Centre (ALC)
- Centre for Comparative Constitutional Studies (CCCS)
- Centre for Employment and Labour Relations (CELRL)
- Centre for Indonesian Law, Islam and Society (CILIS)
- Law and Ethics Network (HLEN)
- Institute for International Law and the Humanities (IILAH)
- Melbourne Centre for Commercial Law (MCCL)
- Melbourne Centre for Law and the Environment (MCLE)
- Peter McMullin Centre on Statelessness (PMCS)
- Constitutional Transformation Network (CTN)
- Disability Law Network (DLN)
- Intellectual Property Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA)
- Melbourne Climate Futures (MCF)
- MLS Human Rights Program (MLSHR)
As a GRAA, you will contribute positively both individually and as part of a team, supporting students and providing research assistance to MLS Research Hubs.
Teaching Responsibilities
- Participate in a compulsory induction session prior to the start of teaching and a follow‐up session during the teaching semester.
- Provide a minimum of two hours of tutorials per week or equivalent teaching.
- Offer teaching administrative support—prepare reading guides and class materials, develop assessment formats (including innovative forms), schedule classes and tutorials, and coordinate other activities.
- Consult students and assess student work.
- Complete the Online Induction for Sessional Teachers and, where possible, additional teacher training offered by the Melbourne CSHE.
- Attend relevant sessions run by the Melbourne Law School's Research Support Program and other training sources.
- Engage with a designated teaching mentor each year—mentor attends at least one class, meets across the semester, and writes a report that informs future Fellowship extension decisions.
- Actively participate in Melbourne Law School teaching seminars.
Research Support Responsibilities
- Assist the Research Hub Director with governance, planning and strategic direction.
- Initiate, develop, write, edit and manage research content on the Hub website, liaising with Hub members and professional IT, web and marketing teams.
- Prepare and deliver content for the Hub's newsletter.
- Support research conferences, seminars and other engagement events—liaison with Hub members, speakers, audiences and MLS staff.
- Maintain the database of Hub members and stakeholders for communication of Hub research and activities.
- Undertake research under the direction of the Hub Director and contribute to Hub projects as directed.
- Carry out additional duties as required by the Hub Director.
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