Lecturer or Senior Lecturer - One Health Microbiology

About the role

Based at UNSW’s Sydney campus, this Lecturer (Level B) / Senior Lecturer (Level C) position in the School of Biotechnology and Biomolecular Sciences, Faculty of Science, focuses on establishing a distinctive research and teaching program in One Health microbiology with an emphasis on environmental and planetary health. The role involves developing an independent research platform to study microbiomes using field, experimental, culture‑based, genomic, multi‑omic, computational, modelling or engineering approaches, and contributing to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in microbiology and related disciplines.

Responsibilities

• Establish internationally competitive research in environmental One Health microbiology, producing high‑quality research outputs and competitive grant applications.
• Develop new understanding of microbiome connectivity across environmental, plant, animal‑associated systems, with environmental and planetary health as the primary focus.
• Collaborate across disciplines, Schools and Faculties, and develop productive partnerships with government, industry, environmental managers, agriculture, research organisations, communities and other research end‑users.
• Contribute to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in microbiology, microbial ecology, environmental biotechnology, genomics, One Health, planetary health or related areas.
• Develop research‑led learning activities and resources and contribute to curriculum innovation, including the potential development and coordination of a 'Frontiers in Microbiology' course.
• Mentor and guide students and colleagues, develop the next generation of academics through involvement in supervision of HDRs and contribute to a collegial, inclusive and safe research culture.
• Apply a well‑defined teaching philosophy and a critically reflective teaching practice that inspires student learning, and provide assessment and feedback using suitable approaches and learning environments.
• Make a positive contribution to School meetings, seminars and committees and to Faculty and University service as required.
• Align with and actively demonstrate the Code of Conduct and Values.
• Cooperate with all health and safety policies and procedures of the university and take all reasonable care to ensure that your actions or omissions do not impact on the health and safety of yourself or others.
• Supervise HDRs to timely completion as primary supervisor; and contribute to HDR review panels.
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