The Centre for Research on Ethics (CRE) located at Université de Montréal invites applications for a postdoctoral research fellowship in ethics and environment (gross salary of $36 000/year) for a 12-month period starting January 1, 2017. Subject to evaluation, the position is renewable for an additional nine months.

Applications must be submitted no later than September 15, 2016.

General rules:

• Candidates must have obtained their Ph.D. after September 1, 2011.
• Candidates must have defended their thesis before January 1, 2017.
• Candidates must have sufficient knowledge of the French and English languages to be able to participate in the activities of the centre.

Target audience:

Researchers who are working on topics related to ethics and the environment. The proposed research must focus on a subject related to the environment that raises ethical issues. The choice of topics includes issues that affect human behaviour and moral duties towards the non-human world; analysis of the nonhuman; the use and distribution of environmental goods and services; environmental regulation, etc.

The CRE will offer to its fellows:

• A gross salary of 36 000.00$ per year[2];
• An individual workstation;
• Access to the university services (libraries, etc.);
• Assistance for material organization of the stay.

In return, the fellows are expected to:

• Pursue the research project as submitted;
• Participate in CRE and GREEA’s (Groupe de recherche en éthique environnementale et animale) activities (conferences, seminars, lectures);
• Using those activities to present their ongoing research to their fellow researchers (CRE and GREEA)
• Be present on a regular basis where the postdoc will be located (e.g. at CRE).

Applications will be evaluated according to the following criteria:

• The nature and quality of the research project and its relevance to the mission of the ethics and environment axis of CRE;
• The quality of previous research by the applicant and the potential benefits to the applicant of a stay in the ethics and environment axis of CRE.

Candidates should send the following documents to the CRE:

• their curriculum vitae;
• an article written or published over the last three years;
• a research project of up to 1500 words;
• two letters of reference (to be sent directly to the CRE before the deadline);
• A doctoral academic transcript (if possible);
• The properly filled out Postdoctoral fellowship form.

[2]  Please note that provincial and federal taxes, as well as other deductions, will be withheld from paycheck, for a total deduction of about 6 to 7% of the salary.

Please send your dossier, by email, to Valéry Giroux, coordinator, at valery.giroux@umontreal.ca. If you do not receive an acknowledgment within 3 days, please resubmit your application to this email address valery.giroux@gmail.com

Informations:

Valéry Giroux
Coordonnatrice
Centre de recherche en éthique (CRÉ)
2910, boul. Édouard-Montpetit, app.17 bureau 313
Montréal, Qc H3T 1J7
valery.giroux@umontreal.ca

Kathryn Furlong
Professeure agrégée en géographie
CRC en eau et urbanisation
Université de Montréal
514-343-6111 poste 28499
kathryn.furlong@umontreal.ca
www.urbanwater.ca