The Gordon F Henderson Postdoctoral Fellowship is given to a researcher with a good and innovative research project which falls within the order of the Human Rights Research and Education Centre (HRREC) at the University of Ottawa and who will profit from developing that project at the HRREC.
However, multidisciplinary and interdisciplinary strategies for the proposed research project will be given selection.
About the University
The University of Ottawa is a bilingual public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is discovered on 42.5 hectares (105 acres) in the heart of Ottawa’s Downtown Core, adjacent to the residential neighborhood of Sandy Hill, adjacent to Ottawa’s Rideau Canal. The university was first founded as the College of Bytown in 1848 by the first bishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Ottawa, Joseph-Bruno Guigues. Placed under the direction of the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, the university has renamed the College of Ottawa in 1861 and received university status five years later through a royal charter. On the 5th of February 1889, the University of Ottawa was granted a papal charter by Pope Leo XIII, promoting the institution to a pontifical university. Thereafter, the university was reorganized on July 1, 1965, as a corporation, independent from any outside body or religious organization.
As a result, the civil and pontifical charters were kept by the newly formed Saint Paul University, combined with the university. The remaining civil faculties were then controlled by the reorganized university. The University of Ottawa is the biggest English-French bilingual university in the world. The university offers a broad variety of academic programs, allocated by ten faculties including the University of Ottawa Faculty of Medicine, the University of Ottawa Faculty of Law, the Telfer School of Management, and the University of Ottawa Faculty of Social Sciences. The university’s Library includes 12 branches, holding a collection of around 4.5 million titles. The University of Ottawa is a member of the Canadian U15 group of research-intensive universities, with a research income of CA$324.581 million in 2017.
Furthermore, the school is co-educational and enrolls more than 35,000 undergraduate and over 6,000 post-graduate students. The school has about 7,000 international students from 150 countries, accounting for 17 percent of the student population. The university also has a network of more than 195,000 alumni. Its athletic teams are known as the Gee-Gees and are members of U Sports.
Benefits:
- The Gordon F Henderson Postdoctoral Fellowship totaling CAD$42,000 will be paid according to terms to be agreed upon between the Postdoctoral fellow and the HRREC.
- The scholarship award does not cover the travel costs of the recipient (to Ottawa or return to the Fellow’s place of origin).
Eligibility for Gordon F Henderson Postdoctoral Fellowship
- Applicants will have acquired a doctoral degree no more than five years before December 31st, 2022.
- Scholars who have obtained their doctorate from the University of Ottawa or through a joint degree program with the University of Ottawa are not qualified.
- Each candidate must have agreed to work at the HRREC for the full period of the scholarship.
- You also need to agree to contribute to the development and scholarly activities of the HRREC by immersing in an original research program that is different from the research he or she has previously undertaken.
- Note that the scholarship competition is open to both Canadian citizens and non-citizens. Foreign Candidates must display that they are likely to acquire permission to reside in Canada for one year.
- The Gordon F Henderson Postdoctoral Fellowship requires the applicant to take up the position physically at the HRREC.
How to Apply for Gordon F Henderson Postdoctoral Fellowship
Applicants should send the following documents (in English or French) to Viviana Fernandez (viviana.fernandez@uOttawa.ca), the Assistant Director of the HRREC:
- A short cover letter;
- An up-to-date C.V.;
- A five-page summary of his or her doctoral thesis;
- The written comments of the thesis examination committee;
- Two letters of recommendation;
- A five-page research proposal explaining the Postdoctoral project, its purposes, and its outputs.
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Application Deadline:
Not stated