Mark Grosjean Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026 (up to $70,000 CAD) – YOA

Deadline: November 1, 2026

Applications are open for the Mark Grosjean Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026. The Mark Grosjean Postdoctoral Fellowship honours Mark Grojean’s exuberance for all times and studying. The 2017 Silver Medallion winner in Political Science and BA Honours graduate, Mark was set to start the direct-entry PhD program on the University of Toronto in political philosophy when he tragically handed away in March 2018. The Department of Political Science is proud to play a part in honouring Mark’s legacy by way of this Postdoctoral Fellowship.

As a finest-in-variety fellowship, the imaginative and prescient and goal of the Mark Grosjean Postdoctoral Fellowship in Political Science is to present very important early-profession assist to exceptionally promising students permitting the Fellow to develop an authentic analysis agenda and contribute to political science.

During the interval of the Fellowship, the profitable candidate should perform a program of impartial analysis, be an energetic, in-individual, full-time participant in official departmental features and occasions the place doable, and disseminate the analysis undertaken throughout the Fellowship in a public discussion board in Calgary.

Benefits

• $70,000 CAD each year, plus University of Calgary Plan C well being advantages, and $6,000 of analysis funds

Eligibility

• Applicants working in any space of political science are eligible.
• Unrestricted citizenship, candidates will need to have earned their PhD in political science lower than 4 years earlier than the beginning date of the place in any given competitors 12 months.
• Applicants might not concurrently maintain one other postdoctoral fellowship or every other full-time place.

Application

An entire application will encompass the next:

• Cover letter: max. 2 pages.
• CV: no web page restrict.
• Project proposal: max. 4 pages, plus bibliography. The mission proposal ought to embody a press release about match with the division.
• Letters of reference: names and make contact with data for 3 potential referees. Letters of reference will solely be requested from quick-listed candidates.
• List of potential school mentors: List up to three potential school mentors who maintain a seamless place with the Department of Political Science. The school mentor would be the departmental level of contact for the guy, offering steerage to UCalgary assets and alternatives related to the fellowship.
• Proof of PhD completion: For candidates and not using a PhD in hand, proof of completion is required by applicant’s chosen Fellowship begin date.
• Optional paperwork: max. 1 web page (might embody particular circumstances; Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, and Accessibility and/or Indigenization assertion).

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For extra data, go to Mark Grosjean Postdoctoral Fellowship.