Full-time fixed-term position for 3 years. Level of appointment subject to appointee's research record, qualifications, experience.

The Melbourne Institute is a partner in an Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence which will identify the pathways through which social and economic disadvantage are perpetuated over the life course, within communities, and across generations. The newly-established Centre is comprised of an inter-disciplinary team of renowned social scientists based at four Australian universities, NGOs, government departments, and eminent international research affiliates. This position is based at the Melbourne Institute at the University of Melbourne in the research program on human capability formation and encompasses a broad range of issues, including child health and development; education; health; youths and risky behaviour; employment outcomes; and family formation.

You will work closely with colleagues based at the Melbourne Institute and elsewhere within the Centre to provide leadership and foster excellence in research and further the goals of the Centre. You must be an accomplished researcher with an established track record in publications and applied policy work in one or more of the following fields: labour economics; social policy; health economics; applied microeconomics; the economics of education; family economics; or behavioural economics.

Members of the research team will be attending several major international conferences in the US and Europe over the next six months and would be happy to meet with interested candidates at those venues.

Enquiries only: Professor Deborah Cobb-Clark, Director and Ronald Henderson Professor, Melbourne Institute, Tel +61 3 9035 4266 Email melb-inst-director@unimelb.edu.au
Close date: 8 June 2014

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