Two-year Postdoctoral or Research Associate based at the City Region Studies Centre
The University of Alberta Faculty of Extension’s City-Region Studies Centre, Edmonton Alberta Canada, in association with the Intermedia Research Studio and the Space and Culture Research Group welcomes applications from both Canadian and international applicants for a one to two year postdoctorate or research associate position. Successful candidates will be expected to contribute approximately 50% of the time to engaged socio-economic research on urban and rural regions, governance, identity and planning and 50% of their time to their own theoretical research project which aligns with the focus of the Faculty on the scholarship and practice of engagement, the urban/rural/regional mandate of the Centre and contributes to the work of the Space and Culture Research Group. Please submit a 1 page project proposal, indicating collaborators, partners and/or support in hand. A background in political economy, public administration and/or small town and rural community development and policy research is an asset. Edmonton, the provincial capital, offers regional economic clusters in food processing, networks of organic food cultivation and farmers’ markets, nanotechnology, health research and videogame production.
Areas of current interest at the University of Alberta’s Intermedia Research Studio align with those of the Space and Culture Research Group but also include recent areas such as visual culture and ’second geographies’, participatory, arts-based methods, and embodiment. Areas being written up (including fieldwork on syncretism, race and communication in Salvador Bahia Brazil) and upcoming research is projected at many scales from the virtuality of sovereignty and the case of the Northwest Passage, to airport design, to cyborg identities, to the socio-economic aspects of nanotechnology and the material culture and regional impact of Canada’s National Institute for Nanotechnology.
This is a full time position based in Edmonton, competitively remunerated on a postdoctoral scale. A fully complete Ph.D. is required at time of application. A formal announcement will be available shortly on the University of Alberta website. The University offers an accessible and diverse workplace. This position will remain open until filled.
Fully funded Masters and Ph.D awards and visiting doctoral studentships in urban culture are also available in sociology, interdisciplinary studies, and in art and design at the University of Alberta: application deadline early Dec. Contact the Department concerned. The University is a global top 100 centre of research and features a vibrant cultural studies and social theory scene, as well as one of the best libraries, archives and data repositories (including GIS) in North America. The Space and Culture Research Group meets bi-weekly and provides a framework for research by faculty, students and postdoctoral researchers across the social sciences and humanities, concerned with any aspect of social space, place, urban culture or design.
Please contact: Space and Culture Research Group c/o Maryanne Wynne, Manager, City-Region Studies Centre, University of Alberta, Enterprise Square, 2-184 10230 Jasper Ave. Edmonton AB Canada T5J 4P6 Tel +1 780.492.9957