Sydney Fellowship – Computing and Mental Health

Project supporting mental health with technology
Opportunity to develop your research profile in human-computer interaction, mental health and wellbeing
3 year contract.

The purpose of the Sydney fellowship is to attract talented recent doctoral graduates who can contribute to our whole-of-university multidisciplinary initiatives, broadly construed. In particular we are looking for young researchers to work at the intersection of computing and mental health.

We are seeking to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to develop and evaluate the new technologies for mental health and wellbeing. The specific project to be agreed with the supervisor/s but likely in the area of mobile interventions or virtual reality

assist in further development of Internet based mental health interventions, based on findings and outcomes in the literature and other projects.
assist in the design, development, and evaluation of a website for the deployment of mental health interventions.
take the lead in the writing up of reports, peer reviewed journal articles and conference papers/presentations.
assist in obtaining ethics clearance for the qualitative and quantitative phases of the research and evaluation.
liaise with the various stakeholders on the project informing them of project progress and that the research is directly related to end user needs.

To secure this role you must have: