2024-2025 POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
2024-2025 POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP: CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
The Canadian Defence and Security Network invites applications for its 2024-2025 Post-Doctoral Fellowship. Applicants from across the social sciences who study defence and/or security and whose research focuses on one of the CDSN’s four eligible themes (operations, security, civil-military relations, and global health) are welcome to apply. The successful applicant will be expected to pursue a research project that contributes to the broader goals of one of the CDSN’s themes in either French or in English. The Post-Doctoral Fellowship is a twelve-month, non- renewable appointment that must be held at one of the institutions hosting the relevant theme (see www.cdsn-rcds.com) for a description of the CDSN’s five thematic centres and pays a total stipend of $50,000CAD. The fellowship will run from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 and will be based at one of the CDSN’s academic partners (https://www.cdsn-rcds.com/partners).
The deadline for applications is EOD 15 March 2024. Notification e-mails will be sent April 2024. Late, incomplete, and not properly formatted applications will not be considered.
Applicants need not contact theme leaders in advance.
Application Materials
· Cover Letter (maximum one page), including which theme one wants to work within.
· Research Proposal (maximum two pages)
· Curriculum Vitae
· The names of two confidential letter writers. Confidential letter writers will only be contacted if the applicant is short-listed (one of the confidential letter writers must be the candidate’s PhD supervisor)
· Graduate Transcripts (copies or scans are acceptable)
Eligible Applicants
· The successful applicant must have completed their PhD by the time they hold the fellowship. Fellowships cannot be deferred.
· Applicants who received their PhD prior to 1 January 2020 are ineligible to apply.
· Applicants from outside of Canada are eligible to apply, but Canadian citizens and permanent residents will be favoured.
· The successful applicant cannot hold another SSHRC funded Post-Doctoral Fellowship award at the same time as the CDSN fellowship.
The cover letter should describe the applicants’ suitability to hold the award, as well as any relevant professional and personal experience that the candidate might have in the field of security and defence. The research proposal should include a puzzle to be addressed, a clear research question, a discussion of what the contribution and outputs (scholarly and otherwise) of the project will be, and how the project fits into the broader CDSN mandate. Applications will be evaluated based on their relevance, contribution, and feasibility.
Applications can either be in English or in French. The Cover Letter, Research Proposal, and CV should be submitted as a single PDF document to info@cdsn-rcds.com. Please include “CDSN Post-Doc Fellowship Proposal 2023” in the subject line.
All research proposals must be written in 12pt, Times New Roman font with 1” margins and a minimum single line spacing.
Bourse postdoctorale 2024-2025 : appel de propositions
Le Réseau canadien de la défense et de la sécurité est à la recherche de candidats pour une bourse postdoctorale 2023-2024.
Les candidats en sciences sociales, étudiant sur la défense et/ou la sécurité, avec un projet de recherche portant sur l’un quatre domaines du RCDS (opérations, sécurité, relations civiles-militaires, approvisionnement et santé mondiale), sont encouragés à soumettre leur candidature. Le récipiendaire de la bourse doit s’attendre à mener un projet de recherche qui contribuera à l’un des objectifs liés aux domaines du RCDS, soit en anglais ou en français. Le poste non renouvelable est d’une durée de douze mois et la valeur de bourse est de 50 000 $CAD. La recherche pour la bourse débutera le 1er juillet 2023 et terminera le 30 juin 2024. Cette dernière doit être réalisée dans l’un des partenaires académiques du RCDS (https://www.cdsn-rcds.com/partners).
La date d’échéance pour les demandes est le 15 mars 2024, à la fin de la journée. Les candidats seront informés des résultats du concours par courriel, en avril 2024. Les candidatures tardives, incomplètes, ne respectant pas les critères de soumission, ne seront pas considérées.
Les candidats ne doivent pas contacter les chefs des établissements au préalable.
Documents requis :
· Une lettre de motivation (maximum d’une page) qui inclut le thème de recherche
· Un projet de recherche (maximum de deux pages)
· Votre curriculum vitae
· Le nom de deux références. L’une des références doit être le ou la superviseure de doctorat du candidat. Seules les références des candidats finalistes seront contactées.
· Relevé de notes (les relevés scannés sont acceptés)
Candidats éligibles:
· Les candidats doivent avoir complété un doctorat avant le début de la bourse. La bourse ne peut être reportée.
· Les candidats ayant complété un doctorat avant le 1er janvier 2017 ne sont pas éligibles
· Les personnes qui résident à l’extérieur du Canada peuvent appliquer, mais la priorité sera accordée aux citoyens canadiens et aux résidents permanents
· Le lauréat ne peut détenir une autre bourse subventionnée par le CRSH en même temps que celle du RCDS
La lettre de motivation doit clairement indiquer les aptitudes du candidat et expliquer toutes expériences professionnelles ou personnelles dans le domaine de la défense et de la sécurité. Le projet de recherche doit inclure l’enjeu du sujet à l’étude, une question de recherche claire, une discussion des contributions et des résultats du projet (académiques ou non-académiques). Cette partie doit aussi expliquer l’apport du projet au mandat du RCDS. Les demandes seront évaluées en fonction de leur pertinence, la contribution et la faisabilité.
Les candidatures peuvent être soumises en anglais ou en français. La lettre de motivation, le projet de recherche et le CV doivent être soumis dans un seul document PDF par courriel à l’adresse suivante : info@cdsn-rcds.com.
Toutes les demandes de recherche doivent être écrites avec une police de taille 12, Times New Roman, des marges d’une pouce et à simple interligne.
(N.B. Le masculin a été utilisé dans le seul but d’alléger la lecture du texte. Le RCDS prône l’inclusion de toutes les identités de genre)
2024 Call for Applications: Climate Security Association of Canada Research Fellowship Bourse de l’Association canadienne sur la sécurité climatique
The Climate Security Association of Canada/l’Association canadienne sur la sécurité climatique (CSAC-ACSC) is pleased to announce the inaugural call for applications for its Research Fellowship program. CSAC-ACSC is a professional association for scholars and practitioners of climate change and security that offers a forum to support the development of research, government policy, knowledge mobilization, and public outreach in this field.
Understanding the links between climate change and security is an urgent global priority for policymakers, scholars, civil society, and security and defence practitioners. Complex relationships exist between the unfolding crisis of human-caused environmental changes and phenomena such as armed conflict, violent extremism, migration, displacement, poverty, resource scarcity, political instability, economic prosperity, energy security, and community resilience. Effectively addressing these issues requires interdisciplinary and multi-method theorization, analysis, and policy development.
The security and defence policy challenges associated with climate change encompass changes in the international and domestic threat environments, political and operational pressures to decarbonize defence and national security activities, and dynamic tensions between and among competing national security priorities, domestic electoral considerations, and engagement with a diverse range of social movements. As climate-related hazards increase over the coming years, it will be increasingly important to identify and support emerging leaders in the field of climate change and security whose work helps address these concerns. CSAC-ACSC’s goal is to foster a professional network of scholars, analysts, and professional practitioners committed to understanding and responding to the inter-related social, political, economic, and ecological security challenges of our time associated with human-caused climate change.
The goal of the CSAC-ACSC Research Fellowship is to provide financial support and promote professional development for graduate students and early career researchers working in the field of climate change and security, broadly defined, in or related to Canada.
Each Fellowship consists of three components:
1. A $3000 stipend.
2. A research paper that the Fellow’s must write by the end of the Fellowship term and which will be published with one of our supporting MINDS research networks.
3. Training and professional development opportunities. These include mentorship from an experienced or senior scholar active in the field of climate and security, networking opportunities with expert practitioners, and full travel expenses to participate in CSAC-ACSC’s Pacific Climate Security Conference and Career Development Workshop on February 1-2, 2024 in Victoria, British Columbia.
Fellows are expected to:
a. Participate in the professional and scholarly activities organized by CSAC-ACSC during 2024.
b. Attend the Pacific Climate Security Conference and Career Development Workshop on February 1-2, 2024.
c. Complete a first full draft of their research paper by the end of September 2024.
d. Encouraged to support the work of fostering a professional community related to climate change and security in Canada.
The CSAC-ACSC Research Fellowship is organized and administered by the Climate Security Association of Canada/L’Association canadienne de la sécurité climatique. It is supported and funded by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) and three Department of National Defence Mobilizing Insights into Defence and Security (MINDS) research networks: the North American and Arctic Defence and Security Network/Réseau sur la defense et la sécurité nord-américaines et arctiques (NAADSN/RDSNAA), Réseau d’analyse stratégique/Network for Strategic Analysis (RAS/NSA), and the Canadian Defence and Security Network/Réseau canadien de défence et de sécurité (CDSN/RCDS).
APPLICATION INSTRUCTIONS
Eligibility Requirements:
The CSAC-ACSC Research Fellowship is open to:
i. All graduate (Master’s or PhD) students enrolled at a university in Canada whose research is related to the area of climate change and security.
ii. Early career professionals working in the field of climate change and security in or related to Canada who completed their post-secondary education not more than seven years before the application date.
Applicants must demonstrate a research interest and/or professional, service, or volunteer experience related to climate change and security. Fellows must be able to communicate verbally in English, but may produce written work in either English or French. Please note that full-time employees of the Government of Canada and Class-B and C Reservists in the Canadian Armed Forces are ineligible for this funding. Class-A reservists are eligible for this funding.
Application Requirements:
Applicants must provide the following materials:
• Completed application information form;
• Applicant CV;
• A cover letter outlining the applicant’s suitability for the Fellowship;
• A 2-page proposal for the research project/paper related to climate change and security to be supported by the Fellowship (should outline the area of inquiry, research question(s), methodology, general timeline, and progress to date).
Download the full instructions and forms HERE. All materials must be received by email at fellowship-bourse@csac-acsc.org by 5 pm PT on December 1, 2023.
Please direct questions about the CSAC-ACSC Research Fellowship to fellowship-bourse@csac-acsc.org
