Associate/Full Professor Canada Research Chair (Tier 1) Technoscience and Indigenous Communities

Faculty of Well being Coverage & Administration and Faculty of Nursing, College of Well being
Date Posted: December 6, 2023
Utility Deadline: February 28, 2024

The Faculty of Well being Coverage & Administration and the Faculty of Nursing, within the College of Well being at York College invitations extremely certified candidates for a Tier 1 Canada Analysis Chair (CRC) on the rank of an Affiliate/Full Professor place in Technoscience and Indigenous Communities. It is a tenure-track appointment to the Professorial Stream to start July 1, 2024.

The Canada Analysis Chairs (CRC) program seeks to draw excellent researchers for careers at Canadian universities. Tier 1 Chairs are meant for excellent researchers acknowledged by their friends as world leaders of their fields. Appointment to a Tier 1 Chair is for seven years, is renewable as soon as, and comes with enhanced analysis help from this system. Nominees for Tier 1 Chair positions have to be full professors or affiliate professors who’re anticipated to be promoted to the complete professor stage inside one or two years of the nomination. Alternatively, if they arrive from outdoors the educational sector, nominees should possess the required {qualifications} to be appointed at these ranges. The profitable candidate is predicted to submit a CRC software inside two years of this commercial (December 2025). Please see the CRC web site http://www.chairs-chaires.gc.ca/ for additional eligibility particulars.

York acknowledges the potential impression of varied life circumstances (e.g., sickness, incapacity, caregiving, household commitments) on a candidate’s document of analysis and different achievements. Candidates are inspired to explain such circumstances and their impression of their software. This data might be taken into cautious consideration in the course of the evaluation course of.

Recognizing the underrepresentation of Indigenous girls and Indigenous gender minorities amongst CRCs, this place is open solely to certified researchers who point out on the Affirmative Motion self-identification type (see beneath) that they establish each as Indigenous Peoples of Canada (i.e., First Nations, Inuit, Métis, or registered to a US tribe whose homelands straddle the colonial Canada/US border) and as girls or gender non-conforming (e.g., genderfluid, nonbinary, Two-Spirit, trans man, trans lady). The appointment is a part of the College’s Affirmative Motion program, which relies on the particular program provisions of the Ontario Human Rights Code.

York College is dedicated to offering an inviting, wealthy and supportive work, examine and analysis setting to Indigenous college students, employees and school members. This contains: cultivating understanding of, respect for and connections with Indigenous communities; integrating Indigenous cultures, approaches and views into curricular choices and analysis; collaborating with Indigenous communities; and supporting the recruitment and success of Indigenous college students, employees and school members. These efforts are guided by the Affiliate Vice-President Indigenous Initiatives, the Indigenous Council, and the Indigenous Framework for York Unviersity https://indigenous.yorku.ca/framework/ and embody the Centre for Indigenous Knowledges and Languages https://www.yorku.ca/research/cikl/, the Centre for Aboriginal Scholar Companies https://aboriginal.info.yorku.ca/ and Skennen’kó:wa Gamig https://aboriginal.info.yorku.ca/skennenkowa-gamig/, an area for Indigenous college, employees, and college students.

It is a research-enhanced college place partially funded by the Linked Minds https://www.yorku.ca/research/connected-minds/ program, funded partially by the Canada First Analysis Excellence Fund. The profitable candidate might be eligible for enhanced start-up funds. As well as, the profitable candidate will have interaction with, and profit from, the Linked Minds program, which focuses on scholarship in three foremost themes: I. Co-creating Analysis for Societal Wants and Predicted Affect; II. Fundamentals of Social Interplay: Neural, Algorithmic, and Social Networks; and III. Designing and Creating Socially Accountable Applied sciences. The Linked Minds program is supported by a complete of $318 million in funding over seven years.

Candidate {Qualifications}:
Diploma: PhD, MD, DrPH or equal doctoral diploma with a considerable document {of professional} expertise in Indigenous well being and wellness analysis and programming, and expertise is required. Expertise in well being care observe and/or well being care companies is very desired.

Scholarship:
• A coherent and well-articulated program of analysis on the well being and wellness of Indigenous Peoples and communities via the co-creation of analysis and the event and/or use of culturally responsive well being and wellness-impacting applied sciences and practices. This may occasionally embody scholarship on wellness for Indigenous Peoples, addressing holistic (psychological, bodily, emotional, religious) and interconnected (with the pure and spirit worlds, previous/future generations) approaches, and/or growing accessible expertise and safeguards, together with in Indigenous communities. Candidates should have demonstrated management skills in supporting group engagement actions together with First Nations, Métis, Inuit and concrete Indigenous communities.
• A document of producing progressive, substantive, rigorous, and as acceptable, externally funded analysis.
• A document of creating influential contributions and demonstrating excellence within the area by the institution of community-based analysis and programming, ongoing well being and wellness associated actions, publications in peer-reviewed journals, information mobilization with/for communities, shows at worldwide conferences and workshops, and affect on Indigenous well being and wellness insurance policies and applications.

Educating:
• A document of excellence in instructing and dedication to college students demonstrating expertise in decolonizing/indigenizing schooling, similar to addressing problems with battle decision, human rights, and/or anti-racism inside the curriculum. The candidate ought to have expertise in graduate supervision and growing educational and profession pathways for Indigenous well being professionals.
• Suitability for immediate appointment to the College of Graduate Research, on condition that the place will contain graduate instructing and supervision.

Extra: The perfect candidate would have the ability to strengthen partnerships with native Indigenous Peoples and communities.

Hiring Insurance policies:
• Wage might be commensurate with {qualifications} and expertise.
• All York College positions are topic to budgetary approval.
• York is an Affirmative Motion (AA) employer and strongly values range, together with gender and sexual range, in its group. Particulars of the AA Program, which applies to girls, members of racialized teams, Indigenous peoples, individuals with disabilities and those that establish as 2SLGBTQ+, might be discovered right here https://acadjobs.info.yorku.ca/affirmative-action/ or by contacting Christal Chapman, EDI Program Supervisor ([email protected]; 416-736-5713).
• York welcomes and employs students from all around the world. All certified candidates are inspired to use; nevertheless, Canadian residents, everlasting residents and Indigenous Peoples of Canada might be given precedence.
• York has a coverage on Lodging in Employment for Individuals with Disabilities http://secretariat-policies.info.yorku.ca/policies/accommodation-in-employment-for-persons-with-disabilities/ and is dedicated to working in the direction of a barrier-free office and increasing the accessibility of the office to individuals with disabilities. Candidates who require lodging are invited to contact Sean Hillier, Search Committee Chair, [email protected].

Utility Course of:
• Due date for accomplished purposes: has been prolonged to February 28, 2024.
• Required supplies: 1) present CV; 2) cowl letter, 3) a separate assertion of analysis expertise associated to Indigenous well being and wellness and expertise, and 4) a separate instructing assertion detailing expertise and strategy to Indigenizing well being curriculum & trainee supervision.
• Present required data concerning your Canadian work standing and self-identification for Affirmative Motion functions as a part of the web software.
• Please word that references could also be requested at a later level.
• Direct questions in regards to the place to Sean Hillier, Search Committee Chair, [email protected].
• Submit supplies: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/HH_CRC_Techno

Study Extra About York:
• York College generates and shares information via our analysis, instructing and engagement with communities around the globe. The 2023-2028 Strategic Analysis Plan https://www.yorku.ca/research/strategic-research-plan-2023-2028/ showcases the depth, breadth and ambition of analysis at York.
• York’s commitments to social justice are specified by our Decolonizing, Fairness, Range and Inclusion Technique https://www.yorku.ca/dedi-strategy/, the Framework & Motion Plan on Black Inclusion https://www.yorku.ca/abr/ and the Indigenous Framework for York College https://indigenous.yorku.ca/framework/.
• Observe the actions and accomplishments of York’s college, college students and employees on YFile https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/.

York College acknowledges its presence on the normal territory of many Indigenous Nations. The realm generally known as Tkaronto has been care taken by the Anishinabek Nation, the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, and the Huron-Wendat. It’s now house to many First Nation, Inuit and Métis communities. We acknowledge the present treaty holders, the Mississaugas of the Credit score First Nation. This territory is topic of the Dish with One Spoon Wampum Belt Covenant, an settlement to peaceably share and take care of the Nice Lakes area.

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