Cadieux-Léger Fellowship 2026-2027: Research Affiliate Program (up to $54,000) – YOA

Deadline: January 30, 2026

Applications are open for the Cadieux-Léger Fellowship 2026-2027: Research Affiliate Program. The Cadieux-Léger Fellow is built-in throughout the Open Insights Hub of Global Affairs Canada (GAC) as an analyst. The Open Insights Hub goals to create an engaged, strategic, rigorous, collaborative and revolutionary surroundings, in part by information-sharing and interplay with a various and ever-rising vary of inner and exterior specialists.

Accordingly, the Fellow is predicted to construct networks inside GAC, the Government of Canada and with exterior specialists for the profit not solely of their analysis however of different departmental employees. The Fellow ought to place specific emphasis on figuring out and fascinating new units of stakeholders whose good concepts could be leveraged as part of the Fellow’s analysis and evaluation on worldwide coverage analysis points (e.g. international and safety coverage, worldwide financial and commerce coverage, and worldwide help coverage).

Benefits

• The Cadieux-Léger Fellowship will final up to 12 months. The Fellow will obtain a complete bursary not higher than $54,000 contingent on length.

Eligibility

• Open to Persons residing in Canada, and Canadian residents and Permanent residents overseas.
• The candidate should:
  • be accessible for a interval of 12 months between September 2026 and August 2027;
  • conform to the eligibility standards of the Research Affiliate Program. Shortlisted candidates might be required to get hold of a Secret safety clearance so as to finalize the choice process.
• The candidate have to be enrolled in a doctoral program as a full-time scholar in a acknowledged publish-secondary establishment, in Canada or overseas, with a specialization in Political Science or International Relations, or Economics, History, or Law or a associated program*. Furthermore, the candidate will need to have efficiently attained candidacy standing** on the time of application, together with having accomplished all course work and examination necessities, as well as to an accepted dissertation proposal.

*The candidate have to be acknowledged as having full-time scholar standing by the educational establishment during which they’re presently enrolled and keep this standing throughout the entire fellowship interval. Part-time college students engaged on their thesis or acknowledged by the educational establishment during which they’re presently enrolled as having a incapacity may also be thought of.

**The candidacy of PhD college students of their third or fourth yr, or these whose thesis is properly superior however not but finalized.

Application

Applicants should present the next:

• Your résumé
• A canopy letter – A masking letter of 1,000 phrases explaining how your information and expertise align with Global Affairs Canada’s mandate.
• A whole transcript.
• A pattern paper or publication.
• Proof of enrolment in a acknowledged educational establishment on the Ph.D stage throughout the fellowship interval.
• Contact data for 3 references

Click here to apply

For extra data, go to Cadieux-Léger Fellowship.