Canada research chair in Climate policy and clean growth at the University of Ottawa
Matthew Paterson
Dear all
My previous university in Ottawa has a great opportunity for a new position. See details below. I think stewar...@uottawa.ca would be very happy to field informal enquiries about this.
Cheers
Mat
Canada Research Chair (Junior) in Climate Policy and Clean Growth
University of Ottawa
Deadline: January 11, 2024
Location: Ontario, Canada
The University of Ottawa [uottawa.ca] and its Faculty of Social Sciences[uottawa.ca] invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a Junior (Tier 2) Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Climate Policy and Clean Growth.
Chairholders must be exceptional, emerging researchers who have demonstrated the potential to achieve international recognition in their fields within five to ten years. This Chair will implement an ambitious, policy-relevant research program, secure external funding, and be actively involved with graduate student training and teaching. They will be jointly appointed to the inter-disciplinary Institute of the Environment [uottawa.ca] (IE) and the Graduate School of Policy and International Affairs [uottawa.ca] (GSPIA), and will teach and supervise graduate students in both units.
The candidate’s research should address climate policies that enable a clean, innovative, inclusive and prosperous economy. It can focus on any aspects of this area (e.g. energy, transport, nature-based solutions, circular economy, clean innovation, etc.). The Chairholder is expected to have a particular focus on policy-relevant research that actively informs policy and/or economic development in Canada (as part of the IE’s mandate). There is opportunity to collaborate with Smart Prosperity Institute [institute.smartprosperity.ca] – Canada’s largest green economy research centre and think tank, based at the IE. Applicants should have relevant expertise, for example in policy studies, political science, law, economics, business, innovation, etc.
Located in the heart of the nation's capital, on the unceded territory of Anishinaabe Algonquin people, the University of Ottawa is one of Canada's top ten research-intensive universities and is the largest bilingual university in North America. It offers its 47,000 students and 5,500 employees a dynamic and stimulating environment where research and knowledge are fundamental to all aspects of university life. The University is situated close to the Parliament of Canada, multiple national agencies, NGOs, business associations and embassies, as well as various provincial and municipal agencies.
Tier 2 Chairs, tenable for five years and renewable once, are for exceptional emerging researchers, acknowledged by their peers as having the potential to lead in their field. The Chair comes with teaching release and a generous funding package.
Candidates should, at a minimum, be assistant or associate professors, or possess the necessary qualifications to be appointed to these levels. Candidates who are more than 10 years from their highest degree must contact the University of Ottawa for questions aout their potential eligibility for a Tier 2 Chair. (Candidates who have experienced legitimate career interruptions [chairs-chaires.gc.ca] may be eligible.) CRC nominees are also eligible for infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation [innovation.ca] (CFI) to help acquire state-of-the-art equipment essential to their work.
Standard Hiring:
The University of Ottawa is committed to ensuring equity, diversity and inclusion in the scholarly and leadership environments of our students, staff, and faculty.
Accordingly, we strongly encourage applications from skilled and experienced members of the four designated groups (such as Indigenous peoples, racialized individuals, persons with disabilities, women and gender equity-seeking groups, as defined in the CRC
Program method
for establishing equity targets [chairs-chaires.gc.ca] and
the Employment
Equity Act [laws.justice.gc.ca]), as well
as from all qualified candidates with the skills and knowledge to productively implement equity measures that ensure and retain diverse teams and promote inclusive practices for team members. All candidates are asked to complete the confidential self-identification
form during the application process online (Employment Equity Questionnaire). Internal candidates are not eligible.
Skills requirements:
- Education : Ph.D. in a discipline relevant to climate policy and clean growth, or Ph.D. expected by July 2024.
- Required Qualifications: superior research achievements in the Chair’s area, evidence of interdisciplinary collaboration, a solid record in teaching and training of graduate students, experience or interest in policy engagement, and the ability to obtain external research funds (all considering the applicant’s career stage). English-French bilingualism is an asset. Active knowledge of both Official Languages in Canada is required for tenure (training is provided).
Rank and salary: Regular tenure-track academic appointment in the Faculty of Social Sciences. Salaries are competitive and commensurate with qualifications and experience.
Benefits package: The University of Ottawa provides a complete benefits package which includes long- term disability, basic group life insurance, supplemental health insurance, University of Ottawa Pension Plan, optional life insurance, and relocation expenses. The position comes with a funding package to support the Chair and its research and training program.
Location of work: Graduate School of Public and International Affairs and Institute of the Environment, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5.
Application Package:
- A cover letter;
- An up-to-date curriculum vitae (Please include any personal circumstances and/or career interruptions such as parental or sick leaves that may have impacted your research trajectory. These will be taken into consideration in the selection process.);
- A research plan (2 to 3 pages);
- A statement of teaching interests (1 page);
- A statement on interest and experience in informing policy development (1 page)
- A statement on equity, diversity, and inclusion philosophy and concrete practices (1 page);
- The names of three people whom may be contacted by the University for letters of reference, which will follow the Canada Research Chairs guidelines [chairs-chaires.gc.ca] (i.e. at least one arm’s length and two who are not affiliated to the University of Ottawa unless they are the candidate’s PhD or postdoctoral supervisor); and
- Self-identification: Complete the confidential Employment equity questionnaire on the web portal during the application process. The Canada Research Chairs Program requires institutions to collect self-identification data from all applicants, following the program’s best practices [chairs-chaires.gc.ca].
Deadline: January 11, 2024
Applications should be submitted electronically through the University of Ottawa Careers portal [uottawa.wd3.myworkdayjobs.com].
The selection process will begin immediately after the closing date and will continue until the position is filled. Only candidates selected for an interview will be contacted.
Please address your cover letter to the following person:
Dr. Sylvain Charbonneau, Vice-President, Research and Innovation
University of Ottawa
550 Cumberland St., room 246
Ottawa, ON K1N 6N5 CANADA
For questions, please email: rcca...@uottawa.ca
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Matthew Paterson
Director, Sustainable Consumption Institute/Dept of Politics
University of Manchester
New book out - In Search of Climate Politics
Recent articles: Climate change and international political economy: between collapse and transformation
Climate Governance Antagonisms: Policy Stability and Repoliticization (with Paul Tobin and Stacy VanDeveer)
National climate institutions complement targets and policies (with Navroz Dubash and 10 others)
Dale W Jamieson
Director, Center for Environmental and Animal Protection
285 Mercer Street, 7th floor
New York NY 10003-6653
Kathleen Mcafee
Dale, here are a few relevant publications. The first one is my favorite.
Re US finance of conservation: from what I’m seeing, it is increasingly linked to promoting carbon markets: private investments in forest-conservation and other land-based carbon-sink projects that generate offsets.
Kathy
Prakash Kashwan, Rosaleen V. Duffy, Francis Masseì, Adeniyi P. Asiyanbi,
& Esther Marijnen (2021) From Racialized Neocolonial Global Conservation to an Inclusive and Regenerative Conservation, Environment: Science and Policy for Sustainable Development, 63:4, 4-19, DOI: 10.1080/00139157.2021.1924574
Allen, K. (2018). Why exchange values are not environmental values: Explaining the problem with neoliberal conservation. Conservation and Society, 16(3), 243-256.
Büscher, B., & Fletcher, R. (2020). The conservation revolution: radical ideas for saving nature beyond the Anthropocene. Verso Books.
Büscher, B., W. Dressler & R. Fletcher. 2014. Nature Inc.: Environmental conservation in the neoliberal age. Tuscon, AZ: The University of Arizona Press.
IPBES (2022). Methodological Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Balvanera, P., Pascual, U., Christie, M., Baptiste, B., and González-Jiménez, D. (eds.). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.6522522
James, A., & Broome, N. P. (2023). A Fine Balance? Value-relations, Post-capitalism and Forest Conservation—A Case from India. Conservation and Society, 21(3), 188-199.
Pascual, U., Adams, W. M., Díaz, S., Lele, S., Mace, G. M., & Turnhout, E. (2021). Biodiversity and the challenge of pluralism. Nature Sustainability, 4(7), 567-572
Kathleen McAfee
Professor Emer., San Francisco State University
COP28: Climate Finance and Carbon Colonialism
New Study: Why REDD+ carbon offsets are failing
Article: Why we should not endorse carbon offsets
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Dale W Jamieson
Director, Center for Environmental and Animal Protection
285 Mercer Street, 7th floor
New York NY 10003-6653
Maniates, Michael Fields
Hello all,
Just a gentle reminder (as they say in Singapore) about a much-appreciated norm: email suggestions directly to the colleague who has made the request, knowing that the colleague will later compile the suggestions they’ve received and post them to the list.
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