CSIRO - Data61 (View other jobs from this organisation)
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The Opportunity
CSIRO Early Research Career (CERC) Postdoctoral Fellowships provide opportunities to scientists and engineers who have completed their doctorate and have less than three years relevant postdoctoral work experience.
The role of the CSIRO Postdoctoral Fellowship in Text and Social Media Analysis for Mental Well-being develop algorithms to automatically analyse posts from a mental health forum. This CSIRO Postdoc will have the opportunity to address important preventative health issues for Australians, through innovative research in text, social media and statistical analysis informed by and contributing to theories from psychology.
The postdoc will join a project that is a collaboration between CSIRO Data61, Macquarie University (Departments of Computer Science and Psychology) and CSIRO Health and Biosecurity, bringing together experts from the required different disciplines. An industry partner is also likely to be involved. This project has great potential to contribute with innovative ideas and methods for emotional mental health and wellbeing through text processing and social media analysis, representing a great opportunity to have impact on health outcomes.
Your duties will include
Location: Marsfield, NSW
Salary: AU$83k - AU$94k plus up to 15.4% superannuation
Tenure: Specified Term of 3 years
Reference: 61819
To be successful you will need
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About CSIRO
At CSIRO you can be part of helping to solve big, complex problems that make a real difference to our future. We spark off each other, learn from each other, trust each other and collaborate to achieve more than we could individually in a supportive, rewarding, inclusive and truly flexible environment.
Who we are
CSIRO’s Data61 business unit is the largest data innovation group in Australia, bringing together approximately 600 research and development staff working in digital technologies to create benefit for Australia. Data61 develops Australia's future leaders with its strong 300+ PhD student program in collaboration with our best universities across Australia.
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Applications Close
23:00 AEST 19th June 2019