Postdoctoral Fellowship in Gender and Work in Comparative Perspective – York University
The Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political
Economy at York University in Toronto invites applications for the position of
postdoctoral research fellow in Gender and Work in Comparative Perspective.
The successful candidate will join a team of researchers developing a
Comparative Perspective Database (CPD) on Gender and Work - a research tool
that when completed, will allow researchers and students to better understand
the gendered nature and contours of labour market (in)security from a
comparative perspective. Now under development, the CPD is linked to the Gender
and Work Database (GWD) (www.genderwork.ca), a unique Web-based research
resource housed at York University and accessible to faculty, librarians and
students at seventy-two postsecondary institutions in Canada. The CPD-GWD brings together
three components: a library of resources; a thesaurus; and, a series of
multidimensional statistical tables. It is a collaborative, multi-disciplinary
effort involving researchers from around the world, which integrates
qualitative and quantitative data from member states of the European Union, Canada, Australia,
and the United States.
Applications are invited from scholars who have earned a doctorate in one of
the Social Sciences and who have research interests in the areas of gender,
race, migration, work and society, labour studies, or comparative political
economy. The postdoctoral fellow will work collaboratively with an
international team of researchers studying gender and work in comparative
perspective. S/he will take a lead role in building the three central modules
of Comparative Perspectives Database with other York-based faculty, students
and staff. The successful applicant should have experience using quantitative
and qualitative social science research methods. S/he will have the opportunity
to produce research papers related to the key themes of the CPD-GWD and to
organize and participate in workshops, seminars, and conferences.
More information is here.
