Members of the Centre for Research in Ethics (CRÉ) would be happy to support the application of researchers interested in doing a postdoctoral fellowship funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) or the Fonds de recherche du Québec (FRQ). If you are preparing an application for one of these organizations’ competitions, if your postdoctoral research project has a significant ethical component and if you would like to do your internship under the direction of one or two of CRÉ’s co-researchers, we invite you to contact us for a pre-selection by sending us your CV and the draft of the research project you plan on submitting to SSHRC and/or FRQ.

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The Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ) brings together researchers from numerous universities as well as from one affiliated school in Quebec, visiting researchers, post-docs, and graduate students working on subjects related to the mission of the Centre.

The CRÉ offers, since its foundation in 2002 as CRÉUM, a research environment that successfully combines the research agendas of its members. One of the strengths of the Centre lies in mobilizing all available resources to help its members to develop their projects in the priority research areas of the centre (metaethics, ethics and politics, ethics and economics, ethics and health, ethics and the environment, animal ethics and ethics of artificial intelligence). The Centre organizes and hosts numerous academic events in these fields. A majority of its postdoctoral fellows go on to tenure-track positions when leaving the CRÉ.

Conditions of participation :

• Meet all criteria for the SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship and/or FRQ competition;
• Have sufficient knowledge of English and French to be able to participate in the activities of the CRÉ.

The CRÉ undertakes to offer the selected candidate :

• A formal letter of support signed by the Director of the CRÉ to be join to the application;
• Integration into the CRÉ network, access to its resources, as well as privileged access to its members and administrative team;
• An individual workstation in the university to which the candidate will be affiliated;
• Access to the infrastructure of the university to which the candidate will be affiliated;
• Assistance with the organisation of the stay.

In return, the selected candidate undertakes to : 

• Continue the research project for which the postdoctoral fellowship was granted and ensure an assiduous presence at the CRÉ;
• Regularly participate in activities organized by the CRÉ (workshops, seminars, conferences, symposiums);
• Make at least one presentation of his/her ongoing work as part of the activities of the CRÉ.

Criteria for evaluating files : 

•     Quality of the research project and relevance to the mission of the CRÉ;
•     Excellence of the applicant’s academic record and ability to contribute to the activities and outreach of the CRÉ.

Contact (documents must be submitted in .pdf format) :

• A CV;
• Draft of your research project submitted to SSHRC and/or FRQSC, specifying whether you intend to submit a file in both competitions.

Submission of the file :

Please send your application, in electronic format, to Valéry Giroux at: valery.giroux@umontreal.ca. If you do not receive an acknowledgement of receipt within one week of sending your documents, contact Valéry Giroux at (514) 343-6111, ext. 2958.

Timeline :

• Deadline for contacting the CRÉ: August 31, 2019;
• Deadline for applications to the SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowships competition: September 2019 / Deadline for applications to the FRQ Postdoctoral Fellowships competition: October 2019 ;
• Announcement of SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition Results: February 2020; Announcement of FRQSC Postdoctoral Fellowship Competition Results: End of April 2020 ;
• Duration of the internship, if funded by the FRQSC or SSHRC: September 2020 to end of June 2021.