The Queensland Bioethics Centre at Australian Catholic University is looking for an outstanding scholar to participate in the development of a solidarity index for global health research and funding. Funded through a Wellcome Trust Discovery Award, the Research Associate will join an international collaboration aiming to push actors in the global health space to go beyond rhetoric to thinking and enacting measures for the practice of solidarity in global health. S/he/them will join a research team spanning Ghana, South Africa, Vienna, the USA, Australia, Canada, and Costa Rica that will develop an actionable tool that will allow actors and the public to measure how actors are living up to solidarity ideals and standards in global health.

For this exciting two-year position, the Research Associate will lead a critical interpretative synthesis of conceptualisations of solidarity manifest in the global health literature. The synthesis will be published and used to articulate a set of core shared actionable goals for the practice of solidarity in global health. The Research Associate will also be lead organiser of a regional workshop to be held at the Queensland Bioethics Centre aimed at surfacing different understandings of what solidarity means in different traditions within the Asia-Pacific. The Research Associate will help develop and carry out a research uptake strategy for the solidarity index for global health research and funding being developed by the consortium.

The Research Associate will be supervised by Dr Bridget Pratt, Queensland Bioethics Centre, and co-supervised by Professor Barbara Prainsack, University of Vienna. The role offers a fantastic opportunity for recent PhD graduates and early career researchers to both undertake independent and collaborative ethics research and to work with a great team of ethics researchers who are passionate about unearthing less heard conceptions of solidarity. Being based at the Queensland Bioethics Centre at ACU will further enable applicants to join a growing ethics centre that is committed to furthering values of social justice, environmental sustainability, and engagement.