The McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowship Scheme has been established to attract outstanding recent doctoral graduates to the University of Melbourne in areas of research priority for the university and its faculties, and in particular to recruit new researchers who have the potential to build and lead cross-disciplinary collaborative research activities inside and across faculties. The University offers a leading and lively research environment that is internationally engaged, public-spirited, and with many outstanding areas of research strength.

The objectives of the scheme are to:

• assist the university to build an ambitious program of research activity, and
• attract outstanding postdoctoral researchers to be part of that and to begin to build the next generation of research activity.

Applicants must have evidence of the award of a PhD, with the date of award considered to be the date of the official notification letter, from a university other than the University of Melbourne by either the closing date or, if not available at that time, by 1st November 2013.  The PhD must have been awarded no earlier than 1 January 2011. Please see the Guidelines for exemptions from this ruling. The McKenzie Postdoctoral Fellowships are intended for applicants who do not hold a fixed term or continuing appointment of greater than one year duration at the University of Melbourne.

• Applicants may be drawn from any field in which the University of Melbourne has research strength, and must have an ability to contribute to research collaborations and programs across faculties or disciplines.
• Applicants will be required to provide a declaration of support from the department/school in which they would be located if successful but the criteria for selection will be university-based.
• Assessment will take account of achievement relative to opportunity.

Applications close: 9 September 2013

For full details, including how to apply visit the following website: http://mro.unimelb.edu.au/content/mckenzie-fellowships