Early-Mid Career Researchers Association (EMCRA)

The School of Biomedical Sciences' Early-Mid Career Researchers Association (EMCRA) was formed to support level A and B postdoctoral researchers in our School, across all three departments. We offer opportunities for postdocs to network with each other, and most importantly run an inter-department collaborative seed-funding grant once a year, called the EMCRA Collaborative Award. We are also actively involved with the School of Biomedical Sciences' Research Committee, and Executive Committee, providing a voice for early and mid-career researchers to the senior members of the School.

Please reach out via email or our social channels, so we can keep you up to date with events and opportunities that specifically benefit YOU, our School's postdocs! We are also eager to engage with other postdoctoral early-mid career associations in Victoria. If you represent any such organisation, please don't hesitate to contact us.

Email: sbs-emcra@unimelb.edu.au

Twitter: @sbsemcra

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sbsemcra/

Meet the Steering Committee

The EMCRA committee meets monthly to discuss ways we can help support the level A and B postdoctoral research in the School of Biomedical Sciences. We have 34 members in 2021.

Microbiology & Immunology	Biochemistry & Pharmacology	Anatomy & Physiology
Annabell Bachem	Claire Weekley	Mariana Del Rosso De Melo
Aimee Tan	Jeffrey Liddell	Justin Hardee
Sapna Devi	Emma McHugh	Ayenachew Bezawork-Geleta
Maria Nogueira de Menezes	Patrick Shriek	Paula Miotto
Svenja Fritzlar	Amar Abdullah	Kristy Swiderski
Katharina Hochheiser	Hamid Soleimaninejad	Ric De Paolai-Iseppi
Catherine Kennedy	Andrew Watt	Aung Aung Kywe Moe
Pin Shie Quah		Cameron Adams
Louise Rowntree		Michael Morgan
Samantha Grimley		Stacey Keenan
Claire Gorrie
Lee Yeoh
Stephanie Neville
Jane Oliver
Hyon Xhi Tan
Pin Shie Quah
Rubaiyea Farrukee
Ashleigh Porter

We have formed three subcommittees to champion our goals for the year:

Communications, Development, Scientific & Social

Communications Subcommittee

The Communications subcommittee keep us all connected, whether it's via email, social media or this website! Contact us with any of your burning questions, or if you need to get the word out about any upcoming events or achievements in the School.
Members: Amar Abdullah (project lead), Hamid Soleimaninejad, Mariana Del Rosso de Melo, Rubaiyea Farrukee, Sapna Devi, Ashleigh Porter, Stacey Keenan.
Development Subcommittee

The Development working group are here to create and support opportunities for professional skills development for EMCRs within the School.
Members: Justin Hardee (project lead), Claire Weekley, Kristy Swiderski, Aimee Tan, Maria Nogueira de Menezes, Ric De Paolai-Iseppi, Svenja Fritzlar, Emma McHugh, Paula Miotto, Louise Rowntree, Samantha Grimley.
Scientific & Social Subcommittee

The Scientific & Social subcommittee is the driving force behind our EMCRA Collaborative Award and our annual research symposium, beyond keeping us all networked face-to-face, organising regular social activities for EMCRs to catch-up and relax. These activities are a great way for new staff to make friends when they join our School!
Members: Claire Gorrie (project lead and EMCRA co-chair), Annabel Bachem (project lead), Patrick Shriek, Pin Shie Quah, Katharina Hochheiser Aung Aung Kywe Moe, Cameron Adams, Jeff Liddell, Michael Morgan, Stephanie Neville, Hyon Xhi Tan.
Co-chairs

The EMCRA committee has three co-chairs in 2021:
Justin Hardee, Claire Gorrie and Amar Abdullah
Other ongoing projects

VISA information sessions: Pin Shie Quah (project lead) and Patrick Shriek
Pitch and networking event for the collaborative award: Claire Gorrie (project lead), Hyon Xhi Tan, Ayenachew Bezawork-Geleta

Researcher Profiles

Are you an SBS EMCR who would like to publish a Researcher Profile? Please complete this form and notify a member of the Communications sub-committee.

*This person may not be working at University of Melbourne anymore

Name	Research Focus	Key Skills	Departments and Centres
Dr Catarina F Almeida	NKT cells, TCR-Ag Recognition, ligand discovery	cell culture, flow cytometry, single cell PCR (TCR repertoire), structural biology	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Paul Angel	Bioinformatics, data integration, transcriptomics, stemcells	bioinformatics, transcriptomics, computational modelling, statistics	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Annabell Bachem	Microbiota and T cells	flow cytometry, mouse/rat models, cell culture	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Stephanie Neville	Chemical biology of host-pneumococcal interactions	molecular biology, protein biochemistry, bacteriology, metallobiology	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Alice Brandli	Systemic health and eye disease	immunohistochemistry, molecular biology, mouse/rat models, meta analysis and systematic reviews	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Zhenjun Chen	MAIT immunity and microbe infections	mouse/rat models, flow cytometry, molecular biology, immunotherapy	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Steffi Cheung	Structural biology	crystallography, structural biology, protein purification, biophysical assays	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Michelle P Christie	Pore-forming proteins, protein interactions, structural biology, infection, biosensors	protein biochemistry, structural biology, protein-interaction studies	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Brendon Chua	Design and development of vaccine and therapeutic interventions, host protection against infectious diseases	cell biology, flow cytometry, vaccine design, peptide chemistry	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Bliss Cunningham	Metal ions in pneumococcal infections	mouse/rat models, molecular biology, microbiology	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Dezerae Cox	Proteome (mis)foldedness in neurodegenerative disease	cell culture, proteomics, recombinant protein production, kinetic assays	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Ricardo De Paoli-Iseppi	Nanopore sequencing in neuropsychiatric disorders	genomics, PCR, long-read sequencing, non-model organisms	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Sapna Devi	Neural regulation of lymphocyte migration	microscopy, flow cytometry, intravital microscopy, whole organ imaging	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Maximilien Evrard	Resident-Memory T cells	mouse/rat models, flow cytometry, bioinformatics, 2-photon microscopy	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Daniel Fernandez-Ruiz	Immunology, malaria, vaccines	cell biology, flow cytometry, vaccine adjuvants, liver immunology	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr William Figgett	Therapeutics development for B-cell malignancies	mouse/rat models, bioinformatics, omics and multivariate statistics, machine learning, molecular dynamics simulations, B-cell biology	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Jess Fletcher	Glial cell biology, neurotrophins, multiple sclerosis, neurodegeneration	cell biology, fluorescence microscopy, image analysis, animal models of demyelinating disease	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Raissa Fonseca	Resident memory T cell development	flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Jaime Foong	Mature and developing enteric nervous system	neuroscience, immunohistochemistry, calcium imaging of live cells, in vitro gut physiology assays	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Katherine Ganio	Metalloproteomics of host-pathogen interactions	mass spectrometry, protein biochemistry, bioanalytical chemistry, ICP-MS	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Nicholas A. Gherardin	T cell Immunology	flow cytometry, protein biochemistry, human immunology, nanobody production	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Justin P. Hardee	Regulation of skeletal muscle plasticity	cell biology, mouse/rat models, neuromuscular stimulation, immunohistochemistry	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Damián Hernández	Diseases modelling with cerebral organoids	stem cells, CRISPR, induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), neuroscience	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr James Hilton	Mechanisms of neurodegeneration	protein biochemistry, mouse/rat models, mass spectrometry, neuroscience	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Katharina Hochheiser	T-cell mediated immune responses in peripheral tissues	mouse/rat models, CRISPR, flow cytometry, gene editing	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Darryl Johnson	Innate T cell biology	fluorescence microscopy, flow cytometry, mouse models, cell culture	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Jennifer Juno	Unconventional T cells and Tfh	flow cytometry, RNA seq, cell cultures, Macaque models of human infections	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Mohsen Kazemi	Cryo-electron microscopy (Single Particle Analysis, Sub-Tomogram Averaging)	cryo-electron microscopy, structural biology, Single Particle Analysis, Sub-Tomogram Imaging	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Stacey Keenan	Metabolism, fatty liver disease, type 2 diabetes, lipid metabolism, obesity	mouse/rat models, surgery, in vitro/in vivo/ex vivo metabolic measurements, radiometric and tracer studies	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Catherine Kennedy	B cell mediated pathologies	mouse/rat models, molecular biology, microbiology	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Hui-Fern Koay	T-cell development, biology and immunology	flow cytometry, primary cell and cell line culture, mouse models, thymic organoids, RNAseq	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Marios Koutsakos	Human immunology, influenza virology	flow cytometry, TCR repertoire analysis, influenza virus plaque assays	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Meina Li	Mechanopharmacology in lung health	cell biology, proteomics, RNAseq, CRISPR, animal models	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Jeff Liddell	Pathobiology of neurodegeneration	primary neural cell culture and co-culture systems, ICP-MS elemental analysis (anatomical, bulk and micro), metallobiology, live-cell imaging	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Grace Lidgerwood	Stem cell disease modelling	stem cells, cell biology, retinal biology, single cell RNA sequencing	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Haiyin Liu	Receptor ubiquitination in immunity	flow cytometry, CRISPR, ubiquitin analysis, biochemistry	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Jieqiong Lou	Chromatin organisation, light microscopy	fluorescence microscopy, cell biology, protein dynamics, membrane protein signaling and trafficking	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Christophe Macri	Dendritic cells, vaccination, checkpoint inhibitors	flow cytometry, CRISPR, mouse animal model, cell culture	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Alice McGovern	Respiratory Neuroscience	surgery, in vivo physiology, viral tracing, single cell RNAseq	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Emma McHugh	Alternative splicing in Plasmodium falciparum	fluorescence microscopy, cell biology, molecular biology, CRISPR	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Rachel McQuade	Brain-gut axis in Parkinson's Disease	mouse/rat models, neuroscience, ex vivo colonic motility and secretion, in vivo gastrointestinal transit	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Maria Menezes	Malaria, vaccine, memory, liver, cd8	flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, malaria, mouse models	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Aung Aung Kywe Moe	Central circuitry of vagal stimulation	behavioural assays, mouse/rat models, optogenetics, structural and functional MRI in rodents	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Michael Morgan	Pain, neuroscience, inflammation, pharmacology	behavioural assays, proteomics, mouse/rat models, high throughput assays	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Sara Nikseresht	Cell death mechanisms in neurodegenerative disease	mouse/rat models, cell culture	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Susan Northfield	Peptide and Medicinal Chemistry	peptide chemistry, medicinal chemistry, drug design, neuroscience	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Dalia Ponce	Proteomics and therapeutics development	protein biochemistry, molecular biology, mass spectrometry, pharmacology and toxicology	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Ruslan Pustovit	Enteric nervous system, bowel motility, ghrelin, constipation, spinal cord injury	neuroscience, surgery, animal physiology, neurogastroenterology	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Pin Shie Quah	Immune defence against Citrobacter rodentium	cell biology, flow cytometry, gene expression, mouse models	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Julio Rodriguez	Mosquito borne viruses	virology, cell biology, mosquito/insect models, cell culture	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Elena Schneider-Futschik	Pharmacology of respiratory disease treatments	cell biology, cell culture, pharmacology & toxicology, drug-drug interactions	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Mark B Schultz	Bioinformatics genomics antimicrobial resistance bacteria	bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, microbiomics	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Ashish Sethi	Solution NMR, protein structure and dynamics, protein-protein/peptide interaction, fragment based drug designing	protein biochemistry, structural biology, solution NMR, protein structure determination	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Lincon Stamp	Enteric nervous system stem cells	stem cells, neuroscience, cell biology	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Sanda Stankovic	NK cells, cancer immunology	cell biology, gene expression, flow cytometry, mouse models of infection and disease	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Aimee Tan	Metals in molecular microbiology	molecular biology, gene expression, animal model, PCR and cloning	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr David Thomas	Exploring Coxiella effector proteins	cell culture, fluorescence microscopy, molecular biology, cell biology	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Nancy Wang	T cell immunity against bacteria	flow cytometry, mouse/rat models, T cell stimulation assays, cytokine analysis	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Kevin Watt	Mechanisms regulating skeletal muscle growth	cell biology, molecular biology, mouse/rat models, surgery	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Claire Weekley	Metals and metalloproteins in biology	X-ray absorbance spectroscopy, X-ray fluorescence microscopy, protein biochemistry, structural biology	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Nicole Wiedmann	Neural circuitry	neuroscience, fluorescence microscopy, small rodent surgery	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Claire Gorrie	Microbiology, bioinformatics, genomics, computational biology	bioinformatics, genomics, antimicrobial resistance, hospital transmission analysis	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Angeline Ferdinand	Microbial genomics and public health	genomics, health program evaluation, health systems	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Eve Maunders	Metal ion homeostasis	molecular biology, transcriptomics, microbiology, gene expression	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Svenja Fritzlar	Host-factors that restrict influenza infections	fluorescence microscopy, molecular biology, viral infections, flow cytometry	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Daniel Bird	Developmental biology, Reproductive Biology, Endocrinology	immunohistochemistry, mouse/rat models, molecular biology	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Paula Miotto	Mitochondrial function, skeletal muscle, liver, bone, metabolism/physiology	mitochondrial function, metabolism/physiology, biochemical adaptations	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Kathryn Munro	Neurons, synaptic plasticity, Alzheimer's disease	neuroscience, cell culture, behavioural assays, immunohistochemistry	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Amar Abdullah	TBI mouse model neurotoxicity assay	behavioural assays, cell culture, QPCR histology western blot microscopy, TBI model iv ip	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Lou Fourriere	Intracellular trafficking in Alzheimer's disease	cell biology, fluorescence microscopy, RUSH system, neurobiology	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Hamid Soleimaninejad	Optical microscopy and Imaging	microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, high end optical microscopy such as FRET/ FLIM / FAIM/ RICS /FCS	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Laura Cook	Human antigen-specific CD4+ T cells	flow cytometry, cell culture, functional T cell assays, cytokine detection	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr John-Paul Fuller-Jackson	Spinal cord innervation of pelvis	neuroscience, immunohistochemistry, Widefield microscopy, Lightsheet microscopy	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Veronica Uribe Sokolov	Cardiovascular developmental biology	microscopy, molecular biology, zebrafish embryology, cardiac development	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Lee Yeoh	Epigenetics and transcriptomics in malaria	bioinformatics, CRISPR, molecular biology, genomics	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Sonia Guilas*	Immunology, Vaccine, Malaria, Memory CD8+T cells	mouse/rat models, flow cytometry, fluorescent microscopy, cell culture	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Makhala Khammy	Cardiovascular Physiology and Pharmacology, Cannabinoids, Endocannabinoids, Hypertension	surgery, mouse/rat models, in vivo haemodynamic monitoring, ex vivo assessment of cardiac and vascular function, amperometry	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Nicole Siddall	Genetics Drosophila Stem Cells Reproduction	cell biology, fluorescence microscopy	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Calvin Eiber	Computational modelling peripheral neural interfaces	neuroscience, computational modelling, MATLAB and neuron anatomically-detailed models of neural cells, circuits, and systems, computational geometry	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Ellie Cho	Image analysis, Fluorescence Microscopy	Image analysis, fluorescence microscopy, Immunohistochemistry	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Wen Shi Lee	Antibodies against HIV and SARS-CoV-2	cell culture, flow cytometry, ADCC assays, Viral infection assays	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Jessica Briffa	Pregnancy, Developmental Biology, Interventions, Molecular Biology	mouse/rat models, molecular biology, histology	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Oanh Nguyen	Human immune responses to viral infections	cell biology, flow cytometry, clinical cohorts, single-cell transcriptomics	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Mariana Del Rosso de Melo	Central regulation of breathing and blood pressure	immunohistochemistry, neuroscience, rat models/electromyography, optogenetics/chemogenetics	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Maciej Daniszewski	Stem cell-based disease modelling	cell culture, stem cells, neuroscience, single-cell RNA sequencing	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Melinda Ashcroft	Genomic epidemiology of infectious diseases	bioinformatics, genomics, computational microbiology	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Patrick Schriek	Biology of dendritic cells and their antigen presentation	cell biology, flow cytometry, protein biochemistry, mouse models	Biochemistry and Pharmacology; Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Kevin John Selva	Mucosal antibody responses during infection	cell culture, flow cytometry, bead-based multiplex assays, activation/inhibition cell-based assays	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Kristy Swiderski	Regulation of skeletal muscle health	cell culture, mouse/rat models, protein analysis, cell biology	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Amelia Nash	Enteric nervous system glia, glioma	neuroscience, cell biology, Immunohistochemistry, Cell culture	Anatomy and Physiology
Dr Ash Porter	Zoonotic viral evolution, virus-host relationships	genomics, bioinformatics, Evolutionary biology, Virology	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Bethany Anderson	Proteases, Oral Cancer	protein biochemistry, cell culture, mouse/rat models, molecular biology	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Gabriela Segal	Imaging	fluorescence microscopy, immunohistochemistry, microscopy, Lightsheet microscopy, clearing,	Biochemistry and Pharmacology
Dr Calum Walsh	Bioinformatics, Microbiome, Metagenomics, Genomics, Transcriptomics	bioinformatics, genomics, metagenomics, microbial ecology	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Mitra Ashayeripanah	Mouse and Human Dendritic cells, mouse models of infection and inflammation	mouse/rat models, flow cytometry, fluorescence microscopy, protein skills	Microbiology and Immunology
Dr Naveen Vankadari	Cryo-electron microscopy and Infection biology	cryo-EM, molecular biology, protein biochemistry, virology	Biochemistry and Pharmacology

*This person may not be working at University of Melbourne anymore

To request an edit or the removal of a Researcher Profile please contact the Communications co-chair or sbsemcra@unimelb.edu.au

EMCRA Collaborative Award

Applications for the 2021 EMCRA Collaborative Award round are now open

One of the primary goals of EMCRA is to promote research independence of the brilliant and talented postdoctoral researchers in the School of Biomedical Sciences (SBS). Once a year we open a call for the EMCRA Collaborative Award, a seed-funding grant available to level A and B postdocs in SBS, who submit projects of their own devising, and must include collaboration across SBS departments.

This funding is intended to promote collaborations at the postdoctoral level in the School, and to help our postdocs gain research independence ahead of larger funding applications to the ARC and NHMRC. There is a total funding pool of $60k available, and awarded funds are estimated to be $10-20k per funded project.

Now in its fourth year, the EMCRA Collaborative Award has fostered lasting inter-department collaborations, contributed to manuscripts and grant applications, supported establishment of new techniques, and facilitated successful funding applications to the University and the NHMRC.

Winners of the 2020 round of the Award were announced in November 2020. Please click here for the announcement.

Important dates:

- Application open: Monday 21^st of June 2021

- Networking event: details TBC

- Applications close: extended to 3^rd of September at 5 pm

-Notification of outcomes: October 2021

Award rules and Application form:

To start your search for potential collaborators, check out Researcher Profiles from EMCRs across the school and add your own.

Best of luck and happy networking!

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Twitter: @sbsemcra

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sbsemcra/

Mentoring

In 2020, the Development sub-committee of SBS EMCRA is piloting a mentoring scheme for Level A and B researchers in the School of Biomedical Sciences with the aim of improving career development and support. In this scheme, EMCRs have been paired with Level C and above academics outside of their Department, further enhancing cross-Departmental connections.

The pilot scheme will run throughout 2020. Feedback from participants will be used to assess its impact and plan future mentoring programs. Expressions of interest for the 2020 program closed on Oct 31, 2019.

Further information on the design of the pilot scheme and expectations of mentees and mentors can be found in the documents below. Please direct concerns and suggestions to sbs-emcra@unimelb.edu.au or a member of the Development subcommittee.

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Twitter: @sbsemcra

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sbsemcra/

Resources

We're in the midst of planning this page. We'd like it to be the go-to place for SBS EMCRs to find the information they need to succeed while working in the School. Think career development, funding opportunities, grant writing tips, connecting with other EMCR organisations and where to find support during challenging times.

Let us know if there are resources you want to see on this page or if you have links and content that you think we should be sharing. Contact us at sbs-emcra@unimelb.edu.au with the subject line: Resources Page.

Promotions

We realised that many of the EMCRs applicants don't know the pathways that will lead them to get a promotion. To help you plan and manage your academic career, we listed here some websites that can help you to find the information you need.

Promotions

Human Resource
Academic Careers: Staff Hub: https://staff.unimelb.edu.au/human-resources/academic-careers
** Main HR site for Academic Careers @ Melbourne. Contains information related to ‘academic performance framework’, ‘performance development framework’, ‘performance relative to opportunity’, ‘promotion’ and further career development opportunities.
Service now ‘Academic Careers @ Melbourne – Promotion information’: https://unimelb.service-now.com/hr?id=kb_article&sys_id=ce30c90d871545103e4e86280cbb35a0
** Contains ‘promotion guidelines’ and ‘how to guides’.
Service now ‘ACM - Academic Promotions Timetables’: https://unimelb.service-now.com/hr?id=kb_article&sys_id=58ef768c878989d03e4e86280cbb350f
Faculty of MDHS
MDHS website: https://mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/beyond2018/people-and-culture/recognition-and-reward/academic-recognition-and-reward/promotion
Promotion to level B: https://mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/beyond2018/people-and-culture/recognition-and-reward/academic-recognition-and-reward/promotion/promotion-to-level-b
Promotion to level C: https://mdhs.unimelb.edu.au/beyond2018/people-and-culture/recognition-and-reward/academic-recognition-and-reward/promotion/promotion-to-level-c
Other relevant information
Appropriate Use of Research Metrics: The Appropriate Use of Research Metrics (unimelb.edu.au)
Fellowship salary gap process: https://gateway.research.unimelb.edu.au/resources/funding/grant-resources/fellowship-salary-gap-management-process

Mental Health Resources

We have recently found ourselves in a challenging time amid COVID-19 restrictions. Having to face career uncertainties, social disconnection and carers’ responsibilities for some, it is understandable that many of us will be feeling stressed, anxious, lost and overwhelmed. To better support EMCRs, we have put together a list of mental health resources below. Please note that this is a general guide; visit your GP for professional advice and call ‘000’ for urgent assistance.

Mental Health Resources

UoM- Health and Wellbeing Directory
This University webpage covers a wide range of internal and external health and wellbeing support services and resources.
Additional resources
UoM COVID-19 Managing Stress and Anxiety Webpage
This University webpage covers the mental health reactions associated with COVID-19, coping strategies and recommended resources and support available in Australia.
UoM Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
This is a confidential support service available to UoM employees and their immediate family members. It is delivered by an external provider, Benestar through telephone, video, online, or the BeneHub app. Appointments can be made by calling 1300 360 364 (Australia) or +61 2 8295 2292 (International). Alternatively, visit https://benestar.com/, click on the ‘BeneHub Login’ button and enter the following details in the ‘Use your company token’ and create your personal profile’ section:
ID: UOM
Token: UOM01
Head to Health
An excellent website created by the Australian Government Department of Health that provide step-by-step guide to help you find the right digital mental health resources that suit your needs.
Lifeline Australia
Provides telephone counselling and referral to local mental health support services.
Telephone: 13 11 14
Mental Health in Multicultural Australia (MHiMA)
Provides mental health and suicide prevention information to cater for people from various cultural and language background.
QLife
Provides anonymous and free counselling and referral services tailored for the LGBTI community.
Telephone: 1800 184 527
Relationship Matters (formerly LifeWorks)
Non-for-profit organisation which provides relationship counselling and mediation.
Telephone: 1300 543 396
Wire
Provides free support, referral and information for all Victorian women, non-binary and gender-diverse individuals.
Telephone: 1300 134 130