JOB OPPORTUNITY
Job title: Postdoctoral Fellowship in Urban Sustainability – Sustainable Cities Initiative (University of Ottawa)
Hiring institution: University of Ottawa
Location: Ottawa, | Canada
Application deadline: 01/31/2024
Position Description
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Ottawa is seeking an outstanding early-career scholar to join our community of researchers as a postdoctoral fellow in urban sustainability within the context of the Sustainable Cities Initiative. This initiative brings together a critical mass of experts, researchers, and graduate students to engage in collaborative, solution-oriented research that will help cities in Canada and around the world become more sustainable within the context of environmental change.
The postdoctoral fellow will benefit from a stimulating intellectual environment and will pursue their own projects that integrate ideas and scholarship across disciplines. Working with Faculty members who will assume a mentorship role, the fellow will also contribute to coordinating and encouraging collaborative research activities within the Faculty. In addition, the fellow will support teams that use an array of methodologies to examine interdisciplinary research questions. The fellow may be involved in activities that range from project conceptualization and grant writing to knowledge dissemination. Information on the areas of inquiry that will drive this research activity can be found at: https://www.uottawa.ca/faculty-arts/news-all/postdoctoral-fellowship-urban-sustainability
Qualifications:
The candidate should have completed a PhD within the past four years. PhD thesis must be submitted for examination before fellowship can be taken up.
Ideal candidates will demonstrate their ideas and capacity for sustaining conversations across conventional disciplinary boundaries. We especially value scholarship that poses new questions and methodologies, engages with communities, and connects to audiences inside and outside academia.
Submission guidelines
The University of Ottawa is a bilingual (French-English) institution. Applicants are encouraged to submit their application in the official language of their choice.
To apply, please compile the following documents into a single PDF file and send it to the Vice-Dean of Research in the Faculty of Arts, Brian Ray Vice-Doyen.Recherche.Arts.Vice-Dean.Research@uottawa.ca
- Cover letter that describes your current research
- A two-page description of how your research as a postdoctoral fellow in urban sustainability will cover one of the research areas outlined above and what your approach to collaborative research will be
- Curriculum vitae
- A recent publication that illustrates your research field
- Names and contact information of three references
We will be accepting applications until January 31, 2024; we will solicit letters of reference only after we have reviewed the applications.
Located in the capital of a G7 country, the University of Ottawa is at the doorstep of federal and local governments and has ready access to some of the most influential Canadian institutions. With experts working in both official languages, the University is uniquely positioned to build connections between thought leaders and practitioners and to drive progress by creating and sharing knowledge that will change the way we live.
