Position Description
Areas:
Duration: Up to 2 years
Start Date: Between July 1, 2022 and September 1, 2022
Salary: $54,000 $CAD per annum, plus a research allowance (10,000 $CAD) and University of Calgary Plan C health benefits
The Faculty of Arts at the University of Calgary, located in the Province of Alberta at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains, is pleased to announce postdoctoral fellowship opportunities available in four areas of scholarship: Justice, Equity, and Transformation; Indigenous Research; Transdisciplinary Research; and Sikh Studies. We invite scholars with projects that span diverse areas of scholarship represented in the Faculty of Arts, from the visual, creative, and performing arts, the humanities, to social sciences.
Each appointment will be tenable for two years (non-renewable). Up to five postdoctoral fellowships are available to be distributed among the four research areas. The postdoctoral fellowships are open to research in all areas of research/creation in the Faculty of Arts. Supervisors for all projects must be affiliated with the Faculty of Arts. To learn more about disciplines and areas housed in the Faculty of Arts, please visit our website (https://arts.ucalgary.ca/).
Faculty of Arts is committed to equity, diversity, inclusion, and accessibility in recruitment, opportunities for training, and research environment.
Research Areas: clearly indicate the area of research you wish to be considered for in your application:
Area 1: Justice, Equity and Transformation
We invite projects that promise to transform our understanding and meaningfully address problems of justice and inequity in our culture and society. We seek outstanding applicants from diverse areas represented within the Faculty of Arts, from within and across the social sciences, humanities, and visual, creative, and performing arts. Such transformative projects might raise understandings of social inclusion/exclusion, structural or situational equity/inequity, justice/injustice, or diversity, or advance change through action-oriented research. Projects should be engaged with equity-deserving groups, including, but not limited to, women, racialized persons, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, and LGBTQ2S+ communities.
Area 2: Indigenous Research
We invite scholars with lived experience or strong connection to communities to propose projects that promote opportunities for culturally responsive and collaborative research, and which centre around Indigeneity in Canadian or global contexts. We seek outstanding applicants from diverse areas represented within the Faculty of Arts, from within and across the social sciences, humanities, and visual, creative, and performing arts. The Indigenous Research fellowships will support emerging scholars who are seeking to connect to Indigenous communities, for example within the Treaty 7 region, and who engage in research or creative/artistic activities that promote Indigenous knowledge, methodologies, and ontology, and which may focus on, for example, Indigenous futurism, health and wellbeing, land rights, culture and language, and Truth and Reconciliation.
The proposals must align with the following principles of conducting Indigenous research:
NOTE: A letter of support from Indigenous partners/communities with whom the scholar intends to work will be an asset. In the absence of a letter of support, the supervisor’s statement must clearly indicate how the work undertaken by the PDS will be supported by the community(ies) engaged in this research.
Area 3: Transdisciplinary Research
We invite projects that transcend the traditional disciplinary boundaries and combine approaches and theories intersecting multiple disciplines, especially those that typically do not work together, to bring novel perspective to a well-defined question, challenge, or opportunity. We seek outstanding applicants from diverse areas represented within the Faculty of Arts, from within and across the social sciences, humanities, and visual, creative, and performing arts. Applications should clearly demonstrate how the research integrates approaches from different disciplines to offer new ways of examining phenomena or issues.
NOTE: The primary supervisor must be from the Faculty of Arts. A letter of support from a co-supervisor is required. Both supervisors must be affiliated with the University of Calgary.
Area 4: Sikh Studies
We invite applications from scholars with projects that focus on Sikhs and Sikhism in a particular historical period or in a modern context. Projects might address issues around religious expression, pluralism and diversity, the Sikh diaspora, and/or Sikh engagement with social advocacy and social justice. Preference will be given to candidates with an interest in community relation-building, especially with the Calgary Sikh community. We seek outstanding applicants from any area or area represented within the Faculty of Arts, from within and across the social sciences, humanities, and visual, creative, and performing arts.
Position Description
APPLICATION REQUIREMENTS:
Please review the Postdoc Eligibility Guidelines for more information prior to applying for this opportunity
The Faculty of Arts Fellowship may not be held simultaneously with any other fellowship.
Presentation Standards
All Documents Listed Below Must Be Submitted as One PDF Document
Maximum file size: 10 MB
All applications must include:
Applicants to Area 2, Indigenous Research, should demonstrate a record of direct engagement with Indigenous communities in Canada or internationally.
Application Deadline: Please submit your application on or before March 14, 2022 MST at 11:59 pm MST
Results of the competition are expected to be announced by mid-June 2022. For more information, please contact Kinga Olszewska at [email protected].
Additional Information
To learn more about postdoctoral scholar opportunities at the University of Calgary and all we have to offer, view our Postdoc Careers website. For more information about the Faculty of Arts visit Careers in the Faculty of Arts.
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About the University of Calgary
The University of Calgary is Canada’s leading next-generation university – a living, growing and youthful institution that embraces change and opportunity with a can-do attitude. Located in the nation’s most enterprising city, the university is making tremendous progress on its Eyes High journey to be recognized as one of Canada’s top five research universities, grounded in innovative learning and teaching and fully integrated with the community it both serves and leads. The University of Calgary inspires and supports discovery, creativity and innovation across all disciplines. For more information, visit ucalgary.ca.
To succeed as one of Canada’s top universities, where new ideas are created, tested and applied through first-class teaching and research, the University of Calgary needs more of the best minds in our classrooms and labs. We’re increasing our scholarly capacity by investing in people who want to change the world, bringing the best and brightest to Calgary to form a global intellectual hub and achieve advances that matter to everyone. For more information visit research.ucalgary.ca/postdocs.
About Calgary, Alberta
Calgary is one of the world's cleanest cities and has been named one of the world's most livable cities for years. Calgary is a city of leaders – in business, community, philanthropy and volunteerism. Calgarians benefit from the strongest economy in the nation and enjoy more days of sunshine per year than any other major Canadian city. Calgary is less than an hour’s drive from the Rocky Mountains and boasts the most extensive urban pathway and bikeway network in North America.
The University of Calgary has launched an institution-wide Indigenous Strategy in line with the foundational goals of Eyes High, committing to creating a rich, vibrant, and culturally competent campus that welcomes and supports Indigenous Peoples, encourages Indigenous community partnerships, is inclusive of Indigenous perspectives in all that we do.
The University of Calgary recognizes that a diverse staff/faculty benefits and enriches the work, learning and research experiences of the entire campus and greater community. We are committed to removing barriers that have been historically encountered by some people in our society. We strive to recruit individuals who will further enhance our diversity and will support their professional success while they are here.