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PhD opportunities for International Students in the Centre for Transformative Work Design, UWA Business School

The Centre for Transformative Work Design is looking to recruit two exceptional international PhD candidates with a passion for work design research to commence in 2017 or early 2018. Applications are open from1 September to 31 October 2017.

Summary of the Centre’s Research

Good work design is essential for a productive and healthy workforce. Here at the Centre for Transformative Work Design (CTWD), we conduct rigorous and relevant research focused on four streams.

Stream 1 - Future Work investigates how change in technology, business, the economy and society shape the ‘what’, ‘how’, ‘where’, ‘when’ and ‘who’ of work. This research stream asks: ‘What is the role of work design in delivering the benefits, or mitigating against the detriments, of this radical change occurring in work and society?’

Stream 2 - Transforming individuals focuses on the role that work design has in enhancing cognitive complexity, fostering moral reasoning and promoting identity change across the lifespan. Important questions asked include: ‘What is the role of work design in accelerating individual learning and development, including enhancing brain plasticity and preventing cognitive decline?’

Stream 3 - Transforming teams and organisations centres on the critical role that teams have for delivering services, infrastructure and innovative products. In particular, this stream asks how work design can be used to co-ordinate agility within and across teams to achieve both efficiency and innovation.

Stream 4 - Drivers of transformative work design seeks to understand the multilevel reasons for why poor quality jobs persist, and how this situation can be changed. Key questions are: ‘Which global, national, organisational, and individual processes shape, and are shaped by, work design options and choices’; and ‘What knowledge, skills, and motivation do stakeholders need to actively design good work?’

A key component of our research involves setting up a new, national 20-year longitudinal study, Working Across the Life Span (WALS). This study will contribute to research across all four streams.

Further information on each of the streams, the Centre in general, and current and past PhD projects can be found at www.transformativeworkdesign.com

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Eligibility Criteria

Applicants must be international students* and meet the eligibility requirements for studying a PhD at UWA, which includes adequate research preparation and a minimum English language competence (please see UWA’s webpages on adequate research preparation and English requirements – links are included below).

(*Is a person who is not an Australian or New Zealand citizen or an Australian Permanent Resident)

Requirements specific to this project are as follows:

Preference will be given to applicants with a passion for work design research and the qualifications, skills and experience to match.

Applicants should typically have a background in organisational psychology/organisational behaviour, or a closely related area such as cognitive, health or social psychology.

The successful applicants will be resident in Perth WA, or prepared to move to Perth for the duration of candidature and will be ready to commence their candidature in 2017 or early 2018.

Readings

The following readings will give you an essential background introduction to the Centre’s research:

Parker, S. K. (2014). Beyond motivation: Job and work design for development, health, ambidexterity, and more. Annual Review of Psychology, 65, 661-691.

Parker, S. K., Morgeson, F. P., & Johns, G. (2017). One hundred years of work design research: Looking back and looking forward. Journal of Applied Psychology, 102(3), 403.

Parker, S. K., Van den Broeck, A., & Holman, D. (2017). Work design influences: A synthesis of multilevel factors that affect the design of jobs. Academy of Management Annals, 11(1), 267-308.

The Centre Director

Professor Sharon Parker is an Australian Research Council (ARC) Laureate Fellow, a Professor of Organisational Behaviour at The University of Western Australia Business School and an Honorary Professor at the University of Sheffield. She is a recipient of the ARC’s Kathleen Fitzpatrick Award, and the 2016 Academy of Management OB Division Best Mentoring Award.

Sharon’s research focuses particularly on job and work design, and she is also interested in proactive behaviour, change, well-being, development and job performance. She has published more than 80 internationally refereed articles, including in top tier journals such as the Journal of Applied Psychology, Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review and the Annual Review of Psychology.

Sharon is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Social Sciences and a Fellow of the US Society for Industrial and Organisational Psychology. She is also an Associate Editor for Academy of Management Annals, a past Associate Editor of the Journal of Applied Psychology and she has served on numerous editorial boards.

Sharon has attracted competitive research funding worth over $40 million. She has worked as a researcher and consultant in a wide range of public and private organisations, and has contributed to policy development in the USA, Australia and the UK.

For Sharon’s publications and a full résumé, visit https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sharon_Parker5

Funding

The Centre and UWA will be able to provide each successful candidate a support package with a value of over $70,000 p.a. (subject to conditions) including:

Scholarship for International Research Fees

A living allowance of $29,000 p.a. for up to 3.5 years

Overseas Student Health Cover insurance (single person coverage)

A laptop and a budget for travel, conference and project costs

Mentoring and development opportunities throughout the candidature, including involvement in the Centre’s Collaboratory activities that are designed to ensure the Centre’s research has impact in industry and government.

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How to Apply

There are 3 steps to apply:

1. Ensure you meet the eligibility requirements detailed above

2. Contact the Centre and prepare a proposal – please see instructions below

3. Apply through UWA’s iAthena web portal - it is open from 1 September to 31 October 2017

Prepare a Proposal

Applicants are required to make contact with the Centre and draft a proposal prior to submitting their application.Once you have ensured that you meet the eligibility criteria, please email the following information to Abbe Rorrison, Centre Manager ([email protected]) as soon as possible (by Friday 13 October 2017 at the absolute latest, but earlier submissions are strongly encouraged):

Full name

Country of birth and citizenship

Email address

Contact address

Curriculum vitae

Original copies and English translations of your tertiary academic transcripts

A title and statement of not more than 250 words describing your proposed project (including specific aims, potential significance, and proposed technologies relevant to your research if applicable).

Further Information

Professor Sharon Parker

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sharon_Parker5

Centre for Transformative Work Design

https://www.transformativeworkdesign.com

UWA Future Students

https://study.uwa.edu.au/courses-and-careers/postgraduate/research

UWA’s PhD entrance requirements in regard to research preparation http://www.postgraduate.uwa.edu.au/staff/schools/research-preparation

UWA’s Postgraduate Research minimum English language requirements

https://study.uwa.edu.au/how-to-apply/english-language-requirements

UWA’s Application Portal - iAthena

https://iathena.grs.uwa.edu.au

About Perth

http://www.web.uwa.edu.au/study/campuses/perth