CSDC Postdoctoral Fellowship Program

The Centre for the Study of Democratic Citizenship (CSDC) is offering one (1) postdoctoral fellowship valued at $45,000 for one year. This fellowship aims to support research training, develop knowledge on one of the Centre’s research axes and support the dissemination of knowledge.

Located in Quebec, the CSDC is an interdisciplinary and interuniversity research centre whose mission is to support research, training and policy development on complex, urgent and important issues concerning democratic citizenship. More specifically, its objectives are:

•     to promote scientific research of national and international calibre on fundamental questions relating to democratic citizenship from a variety of disciplinary perspectives;
•     to contribute to political debates on the strengthening of democracy at home and abroad;
•     to take a leadership role in the development of large-scale (trans)national research projects;
•     and to provide an enhanced training environment for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows.

The scientific program of the CSDC is organized around three research axes:

•     Learning democratic citizenship in an unequal world;
•     Practicing citizenship in a world of skepticism;
•     Representing and governing citizens in critical times;

The postdoctoral fellowship has to be supervised by a CSDC faculty member. We encourage applicants to identify and quickly contact the CSDC faculty member they want to support their application for the CSDC postdoctoral fellowship and a subsequent postdoctoral fellowship application from a major Canadian granting organization (FRQSC, CRSH or Banting) in the fall of 2022, which could cover an additional one or two years (2023-2024, 2024-2025).

The CSDC is funded by the strategic clusters program (Regroupement stratégiques) of the Fonds de recherche du Québec – Société et culture (FRQ-SC), its managing university (Université de Montréal) and its partner universities (Concordia, Laval, McGill and UQAM).

More detailed information on the members, activities and axes of research of the CSDC is available on its website: https://csdc-cecd.ca/en/

Eligibility criteria

Candidates must meet the following criteria:

•     have defended their PhD dissertation by 31 August 2022 at the latest;
•     have obtained their PhD (i) in September 2020 or after, or (ii) after September 2017 only if the application includes interruptions for relevant circumstances;
•     have Canadian citizenship, permanent resident status or, in the case of international students, a valid Canadian work permit at the time of the start of the internship;
•     not hold a permanent or tenured professor position;
•     have the support of a faculty member of the CSDC and who is not the candidate’s dissertation supervisor or co-supervisor.

This fellowship may not be cumulated with a postdoctoral fellowship from a major granting agency (e.g., SSHRC, FRQ-SC); however, postdoctoral fellowship supplements are permitted.

Application file

The application file must be presented in French or English. It should include the following:

•     a cover letter specifying, in particular, any relevant information to establish the eligibility of the application (see the section “Eligibility conditions”);
•     a research project of approximately 750 words specifying a short presentation of the relevant literature, the research question, the theoretical framework, the methodology and the timetable;
•     a curriculum vitae;
•     a publication representative of the candidate’s research work (article, book chapter, or a dissertation chapter);
•     a letter of recommendation;
•     an email from a faculty member of the CCSD indicating that they would agree to supervise the postdoctoral fellowship if the candidate is selected.

The candidate submits the first four elements of the file themselves. Please send all your documents in one PDF file to cecd-csdc@umontreal.ca.

The letter of recommendation, as well as the supporting email from a faculty member of the CSDC, must be sent directly to the CSDC by the signatories at cecd-csdc@umontreal.ca

Timeline:

•     Deadline for submitting applications: 31 March 2022 (11:59 p.m., Montreal time)
•     Competition result: 15 May 2022 (at the latest)
•     Beginning of the internship: 1 September 2022 – 1 January 2023