Role Requirements
As this is a continuing (permanent) role, you will require permanent work rights in Australia to be considered. Successful applicants are subject to a National Police Clearance, and background, integrity, and reference checks to Curtin’s satisfaction.
The closing date is Sunday the 19th of October at 3.00pm AWST.
Your New Team: The Faculty of Humanities
Curtin’s Faculty of Humanities is home to transformative learning and research across a diverse range of disciplines. The Faculty comprises three schools:
School of Education - renowned for preparing educators and educational leaders across various sectors and communities.
School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry - promoting creativity, critical thinking, and job-readiness through socially engaged education.
School of Design and the Built Environment - focused on shaping urban, cultural, and environmental futures through sustainable design and practice.
Driving Strategic Impact through Futures Platforms
This role is strategically aligned with the Faculty’s Futures Platforms, which bring together interdisciplinary research and teaching to drive transformative change:
Learning Futures - Reimagining education for excellence and equity.
Global Futures - Addressing complex global challenges through research and innovation.
Sustainable Futures - Building fair, low-carbon, and prosperous societies.
Indigenous Futures - Embedding Indigenous knowledges and leadership in education and research.
In this role, you will contribute to both the Learning Futures and Global Futures Platforms, ensuring human-centred, evidence-informed learning is embedded across Curtin’s education ecosystem. As an academic leader in our Faculty, you will be part of a vibrant research culture supported by nationally and internationally recognised research centres, networks and initiatives. For more information please visit: https://research.curtin.edu.au/humanities/
This is a continuing teaching and research appointment within Curtin’s Faculty of Humanities. The successful candidate will join the University as a professorial academic leader, with the opportunity to shape the future of education through both scholarship and practice.
For at least the first three years, the appointee will lead and undertake a dynamic program of action research, centred on the curation and application of high-quality, evidence-based research from psychology, neuroscience, and education.
The program of action research will be based on three priority areas:
• Agentic AI and Learning Modalities
• Challenge-Based Learning
• Peer-to-Peer Learning and Feedback
This work will directly inform and evolve two of Curtin’s flagship initiatives: a developed Agentic AI System and Challenge Learning Program. You will play a key role in applying research to shape learning experiences that are scalable, inclusive, high-impact, and grounded in what we know about how humans learn.
At the conclusion of the three-years, the role will continue as a professorial teaching and research position, contributing to the Faculty of Humanities through sustained research leadership, curriculum innovation, and high-quality teaching. This dual structure ensures that while the first three years are dedicated to pioneering research and transformation, the long-term appointment embeds the successful candidate as a core member of Curtin’s academic community.
Reporting to the Pro Vice-Chancellor, this professorial appointment offers a unique opportunity to lead both thought and systems innovation at Curtin. You will play a central role in Curtin’s transformation toward agentic, personalised, and participatory education. Acting as an intellectual custodian of this shift, you will embed cutting-edge learning science into the University’s digital tools, curriculum frameworks, and teaching practices - bridging research and real-world educational impact at scale.
Key Responsibilities
• Curate the Human Learning Evidence Base
• Lead and Undertake Action Research across Three core fields
• Drive Research-Enabled Systems Development
• Lead Research Teams and Secure Funding
• Collaborate Strategically with Leadership and Educators
• Collaborate with key stakeholders to design evidence informed learning experiences
• Disseminate Research and Build Institutional Reputation
Agentic AI and Learning Modalities
You will play a foundational role in curating the research base that informs Curtin’s developed Agentic AI system - an AI environment designed to support students and teachers symbiotically. The system draws from validated research on how humans learn, including learning modality clustering, influences on learning, and evidence-based strategies for self-regulation, cognitive scaffolding, and formative feedback.
Challenge-Based Learning
Through Curtin’s Futures Platforms, the Faculty of Humanities delivers cross-disciplinary, challenge-based units for both university and high school students. You will lead the design and undertaking of research into these challenges - exploring how students learn through inquiry, collaboration, and public contribution.
Peer-to-Peer Learning and Feedback
You will advance research-informed peer learning strategies that enable students to give and receive meaningful peer feedback; collaborate in reciprocal learning communities, and gain graduate capabilities such as evaluative judgement, critical thinking, and collaborative responsibility.
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