Job No.: 675240
Location: Clayton campus
Employment Type: Full-time
Duration: 3.5-year fixed-term appointment
Remuneration: $36,063 AUD tax-free stipend (for 3.5 years, subject to annual indexation)
The Opportunity
Expressions of interest are sought for a full-time scholarship to study for a PhD supervised by the Faculty of Information Technology and the Faculty of Law at Monash University. The candidate will work as part of a team (including 2 PhDs, 1 Research Fellow and 1 Research Engineer) on an ARC Discovery Project to improve the design methods and technologies used for online hearings. The project brings together leading Human-Computer Interaction, Law and Psychology researchers at Monash University.
The scholarship comprises:
The project aims to bring advances in human-computer interaction to the forefront of online justice systems. We will centre the needs and experiences of litigants in designing effective systems and processes and developing a set of design principles, methods, and technologies for online hearings. This work tackles the challenge of creating systems consistent with legal standards acceptable to justice institutions and actors and inclusive of all stakeholders, particularly people with disabilities. Achieving these aims requires fundamental innovations in interaction design methods bespoke for the legal context, demonstrating their utility and understanding their potential in broader legal processes.
The overall project (of which the PhD project is a component) will achieve this through the pursuit of four objectives:
The PhD project: Legal design for online hearing processes
The project will focus on the design and evaluation of online hearing prototypes that facilitate open, effective and participatory justice. The project has been configured to ensure the candidate gains a wide range of research experience and will position them as a future leader in online justice design, research, and innovation.
The project requires the candidate to:
The PhD project will develop the evidence base needed to support a better understanding of this important topic. Support is available for the research approach to be socio-legal, empirical, transdisciplinary and comparative. Comparison across Australian and international jurisdictions will be encouraged.
Additional benefits
The package of benefits available for the successful candidate includes:
Candidate Requirements
The successful applicant will have:
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strong written and verbal communication skills
familiarity, expertise and/or interest in empirical research methods and preparedness to further develop these skills; and
Submit an Expression of Interest (EOI)
EOIs should be submitted by email to:
Associate Professor Genevieve Grant (Faculty of Law): [email protected] AND
Professor Patrick Olivier (Faculty of IT): [email protected].
Please request a confirmation of receipt to ensure that your EOI will be considered. Shortlisted applicants will be invited to an interview by 31 March 2025.
EOIs should include the following attachments:
Enquiries should be directed by email to Associate Professor Genevieve Grant (Faculty of Law): [email protected]
Applications Close : Friday, 21 March 2025, 11:55pm AEDT
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