Description
Area: Racialized Peoples' Health
Duration: 1 year
Start Date: May 1, 2025
Salary: $60,000 $CAD per annum, plus University of Calgary Plan C health benefits
The Department of Community Health Sciences in the Cumming School of Medicine at the University of Calgary is accepting applications for a Postdoctoral Scholar in Racialized Peoples¿ Health. This position is for a project on climate justice, mobility justice, and health of racialized people in Canada.
Job Description:
This is a full-time position based in Calgary. This position is for one year only. The postdoctoral scholars must be able to work in person five days a week onsite in Calgary. The applicant must also be able to travel across sites.
Application to postdoctoral scholarships, such as CIHR and SSHRC award will be expected.
Duties will include the following
- Conduct literature reviews, literature search, scoping review, and systematic review
- Engage with racialized communities
- Recruit research participants
- Collect interview data
- Analyze data including with NVivo qualitative data analysis software
- Write papers for publication
- Develop and submit research proposals
- Apply advanced theoretical and/or analytical techniques
- Develop presentations for events, conferences and other knowledge mobilization products
- Manage ethics submissions, modifications and renewals
- Mentor and train research assistants and graduate students
- Coordinate and participate in community and stakeholder engagement sessions
- Develop data collection instruments including interview instruments
- Assist with research data management
- Attend research team meetings
- Liaise with community organizations
Qualifications:
- PhD degree in fields related to climate justice, mobility justice, immigrant health
- PhD must have been awarded within the last seven years
- In-depth knowledge of climate justice, mobility justice and health
- Experience working on qualitative research projects with racialized communities in Canada
- Experience conducting scoping reviews or systematic reviews
- Track record of journal publications
- Outstanding writing skills in English
- Experience with qualitative data analysis including use of NVivo software
- Strong motivation to submit papers for publication in peer reviewed journals
- In-depth theoretical knowledge
- Ability to mentor undergraduate and graduate student
- High level of effective time management, personal initiative, and teamwork
- Demonstrated leadership, communication, organization, problem solving, and interpersonal skills
- Bilingual applicants (English and French) will be prioritized in the selection process
Application Details:
Application deadline is April 4, 2025. Send cover letter, CV, contact information for three references and a writing sample (e.g. peer reviewed publication) to Dr. Bukola Salami at black.racialized@ucalgary.ca
The terms and conditions of employment are covered under the UCalgary and PDAC Collective Agreement. To find out more about postdoctoral scholar program at the University of Calgary visit our Postdocs website.
To learn more about postdoctoral scholar opportunities at the University of Calgary, view our Postdoc Careers website.
About the University of Calgary
UCalgary is Canada's entrepreneurial university, located in Canada's most enterprising city. It is a top research university and one of the highest-ranked universities of its age. Founded in 1966, its 36,000 students experience an innovative learning environment, made rich by research, hands-on experiences and entrepreneurial thinking. It is Canada's leader in the creation of start-ups. Start something today at the University of Calgary. For more information, visit ucalgary.ca.
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 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.
As an equitable and inclusive employer, 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 academic and professional success while they are here. In particular, we encourage members of the designated groups (women, Indigenous peoples, persons with disabilities, members of visible/racialized minorities, and diverse sexual orientation and gender identities) to apply. To ensure a fair and equitable assessment, we offer accommodation at any stage during the recruitment process to applicants with disabilities. Questions regarding [diversity] EDI at UCalgary can be sent to the Office of Institutional Commitments (equity@ucalgary.ca) and requests for accommodations can be sent to Human Resources (hrhire@ucalgary.ca).
