Call for applications

The Centre for Research on Ethics (CRE) located at Université de Montréal invites applications for its postdoctoral research fellowship (gross salary up to $43 000.00$/year) for the period of the academic year 2021-2022. Subject to evaluation, the position is renewable for an additional nine months.

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The mission of the CRE is to contribute to research in ethics and to the quality of graduate training in all fields of ethics from meta-ethics to applied questions. We encourage applications from researchers working on themes related to the research axes of the CRÉ : ethics and economics, ethics and health, ethics and politics, meta-ethics. A competition is held separately and jointly with the GRÉEA for research projects concerning environmental and animal ethics (www.greea.ca). We also admit applications from other disciplines, like ethics of artificial intelligence, feminist ethics or issues related to decolonization and racism, etc., provided their research is directly linked to questions in ethics. CRE is an interuniversity Center. Candidates must have sufficient knowledge of the French and English languages to be able to participate in the activities of the centre.

General rules :

• In order to apply, candidates must have obtained their Ph.D. after June 1, 2018.
• Applicants must have defended their thesis before the beginning of their fellowship;
• We strongly encourage applicants to apply for funding from external agencies such as the FRQ-SC or SSHRC.

The CRE will offer to its fellows :

• A gross salary of 43 000.00$ per year[1];
• An individual workstation, if the sanitary measures allow it ;
• Access to the services of a university (libraries, etc.) ;
• Assistance for material organisation of the stay.

In return, the fellows are expected to :

• Pursue the research project as submitted ;
• Participate in the Center’s activities (conferences, seminars, lectures) ;
• Using those activities to present their ongoing research to their fellow researchers.
• Be present at the Center on a regular basis, depending on the sanitary measures.

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 CRE ;
• The quality of previous research by the applicant and the potential benefits to the applicant from a stay at the centre.

Candidates should send the following documents to the CRE (.pdf) :

• 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 form.

Application deadline : April 16th, 2021.

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Please send your dossier, by email, to Valéry Giroux, CRÉ coordinator, at : valery.giroux@umontreal.ca. If your research project involves environmental or animal ethics, please send your file to Ely Mermans, GREEA coordinator, at: ely.mermans@umontreal.ca. If you or your respondants do not receive acknowlegment within 24hrs, please write to valerygiroux@gmail.com. 

[1] Please note that provincial and federal taxes, as well as other deductions (about 6 to 7% of the salary), will be withheld from paycheques.