[chisigmail] Job - Senior Research Fellow, The University of Melbourne

[Steve Howard]

SENIOR RESEARCH FELLOW
Position no.: 0019842
Employment type: Full-time Fixed Term
Campus: Parkville
Information Systems, Faculty of Science

Salary: $87,826 - $95,891 p.a. (pro rata) plus employer superannuation
contributions of 9%

A two-year (0.5FTE) or a one year (1 FTE) position is available for a Senior
Research Associate to work on an Australian-Research-Council-funded project
³Cross-Community Information Systems: Understanding Technology-Practice Fit
in Healthcare². The Senior Research Associate will work in collaboration
with the investigators A/Prof Rens Scheepers, A/Prof Steve Howard, Prof. Liz
Sonenberg (The University of Melbourne), and partner investigators Prof.
Robert Johnston (University College Dublin), and Prof. Sioban Nelson
(University of Toronto).

Australia is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in e-health
initiatives. Much of that money is spent on the technical side of
'connecting things up'. However, success in e-health delivery also depends
crucially on meeting the diverse human needs of the stakeholder groups that
will interact through these interconnected systems. This project studies
these systems' use and usability issues in two very different practice
communities within the health system. Discoveries made from the specific
healthcare setting will have broader application to other areas where large
scale, decentralized, information systems are transforming social
institutions, such as emergency services, education, and multinational
business.

The position will require a wide range of skills and experience, including
understanding the theoretical framework that drives the study, interviewing
participants (e.g. health practitioners, caregivers, and patients and their
families), and qualitative data analysis. Maturity, sophisticated
interviewing skills, and the capacity to relate to the health care context
are essential. These abilities are likely to be possessed by someone with
significant prior research experience.
Position Description & Selection Criteria

Date advertised: 15 Jul 2008 Aus. Eastern Standard Time
Closing date: 8 Aug 2008 11:55pm Aus. Eastern Standard Time

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Cheers

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Steve Howard
Head, Department of Information Systems
The University of Melbourne
T: (03) 8344 1512
F: (03) 9349 4596
E: showard at unimelb.edu.au
W: http://disweb.dis.unimelb.edu.au/staff//showard/