Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering - Special Call
May 21, 2020
Submission deadline extended to July 2, 2020
The Faculty of Applied Science and Engineering (FASE) at the University of Toronto invites applications for nomination to a Canada Research Chair, Tier 1. Applicants must be campus-based tenure-stream faculty members with a budgetary appointment in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering. The Faculty expects to select up to three (3) Canada Research Chair, NSERC Tier 1, nominees in this round.
In order to address the under-representation of women both among current Chairholders in the Faculty and in the CRC Program as a whole (as identified by the Tri-Agency Institution Programs Secretariat (TIPS)), this special call is open only to individuals who self-identify as women1. This initiative follows the provisions for a special programs as described by the Ontario Human Rights Commission. The identification of outstanding candidates from this designated group supports the commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion at the University and the Faculty’s public mission for pursuit of excellence and equity, as well as to its capacity to fulfill the objectives of the Canada Research Chair Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan.
Tier 1 Chairs are for outstanding established scholars. To meet the criteria of the program, nominees must be outstanding and innovative world-class researchers whose accomplishments have made a major impact in their fields; be recognized internationally as leaders in their fields; have superior records of attracting and supervising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (taking into account different practices in the relevant field or discipline) and, as Chairholders, be expected to attract, develop and retain excellent trainees, students and future researchers; and be proposing an original, innovative research program of the highest quality.
Applications should include 1) a letter of interest describing your qualifications and research plans for the position; and 2) a curriculum vitae. Please forward all materials to vdr@engineering.utoronto.ca by the extended deadline of Thursday, July 2nd, 2020
For the letter of interest, applicants are asked to present a summary of their qualifications by addressing CRC Tier 1 Chair selection criteria, namely:
- Outstanding and innovative world-class researchers whose accomplishments have made a major impact in their fields;
- recognized internationally as leaders in their fields;
- superior records of attracting and supervising graduate students and postdoctoral fellows (taking into account different practices in the relevant field or discipline) and, as chairholders, expected to attract, develop and retain excellent trainees, students and future researchers; and
- proposing an original, innovative research program of the highest quality.
Applicants are encouraged to please limit their letters of interest and CV if possible to 3 pages.
Further information regarding nomination and eligibility criteria may be found here. For more information about the CRC nomination process at the University of Toronto, contact Judith Chadwick, Assistant Vice-President, Research Services, at crc@utoronto.ca, or visit the University of Toronto's CRC web page.
The University recognizes that scholars have varying career paths and that career interruptions due to personal circumstances can be part of an excellent academic record. Nomination committee members have been instructed to give careful consideration to, and be sensitive to the impact of, career interruptions in their assessments.
The University of Toronto is strongly committed to diversity within its community and especially welcomes applications from women who also identify as racialized persons/persons of colour, Indigenous/Aboriginal People of North America, persons with disabilities, LGBTQ persons, and others who may contribute to the further diversification of ideas.
The University is committed to the principles of the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA). As such, we strive to make our assessment and selection processes as accessible as possible, and provide accommodations as required for applicants with disabilities. Requests for workplace accommodations and related issues can be addressed to the office of Health & Wellbeing Programs and Services.
The Canada Research Chairs Program requires institutions to collect self-identification data from all applicants, following the program’s best practices. All applicants to this opportunity are required to complete this self-identification form. The data collected via this form will be held confidentially, separate from all other employment or personal data, and will be accessed only by the University’s Research Equity and Diversity Strategist. This information will be reported only in aggregate to the selection committee chair and equity officer, as well as a small number of dedicate individuals in the Division of the Vice-President, Research and Innovation. No individual information will be shared with the committee members or others. Data collected via this form will be used solely for the purposes of this competition and may not be accessed or used for any other purpose.
