I am pleased to announce a search will be initiated for qualified candidates for a Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture at UPEI.

The University of Prince Edward Island (UPEI) invites a highly engaged academic to join our research team in the role of Canada Research Chair (CRC) in Applied Communication, Leadership, and Culture. The successful candidate for this position will have a program of research that fits within the broad, interdisciplinary category of the Social Studies of Science; they will have extensive and varied experience with digital humanities tools (including GIS or alternative mapping software), both within their own scholarly work and within the classroom; they will have a strong record of teaching communication and leadership to undergraduate and graduate students, and a clear understanding of how their own academic research intersects with their teaching of these subjects. Preference will be given to those candidates who have developed a research profile that suggests obvious future collaboration with members of the UPEI research community.

A CRC Application Review Committee for this opportunity is being convened and I would welcome your suggestions on members for this committee. Please contact me by Email  (rgilmour@upei.ca) or phone (566-0637). Inquiries about the Chair can be sent to Dr. Lisa Chilton, lchilton@upei.ca

More information on the Canada Research Chairs program may be found at www.chairs.gc.ca.

Additional information about the new Chair can be found at www.upei.ca/research/research-chairs and the UPEI’s Human Resource web site.