The University of Ottawa and its Faculty of Social Sciences invites highly qualified candidates to apply for a 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 Graduate School of Policy and International Affairs (GSPIA) and the interdisciplinary Institute of the Environment (IE), 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 – 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 on the unceded territory of Anishinaabe Algonquin people, in the heart of the nation's capital, the University of Ottawa is one of Canada's top ten research-intensive universities and is the first and 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 and business associations, 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. For each Tier 2 Chair, the institution receives $100,000 annually for five years, with an additional $20,000 annual research stipend for first-term Tier 2 Chairs.
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 directly for questions related to their potential eligibility for a Tier 2 Chair. The institution may nominate a professor or a researcher who is more than 10 years from their highest degree at the time of nomination and has experienced legitimate career interruptions (see acceptable justifications). In such cases, the institution must submit to the Secretariat a formal justification (using the Tier 2 Justification Screening Form), explaining why the nominee is still considered to be an emerging scholar.
The University recognizes the legitimate impact that leaves (e.g., parental leave, leave due to illness) can have on a candidate’s record of research achievement and that these leaves will be taken into careful consideration during the assessment process. New CRC nominees are also eligible for infrastructure support from the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) to help acquire state-of-the-art equipment essential to their work.