Award 261274-CA
Research Chairs in Policy, Law, and Governance
- COMPETITION OPENS FEBRUARY 2025
- Awards to be taken up in the 2026-2027 Academic Year
- Applications accepted until September 15, 2024
- The next competition, for awards to be taken up in the 2027-2028 Academic Year, will open in February 2026
- US$25,000 for 4 months
- Grants begin in either September 2026 or January 2027
- Fulbright Canada Program Officer, Recruitment
- Formal letters of invitation should not be sought; however, applicants are encouraged to contact the institution to discuss research interests.
- The University of Ottawa is a bilingual institution. Laval University is a francophone institution. Some resource material may be in French. French is not required but would be an asset.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Global Governance, Balsillie School of International Affairs
Balsillie School of International Affairs in partnership with the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University
The Balsillie School of International Affairs (BSIA) is an institute for advanced research, education, and outreach on global governance and international public policy. It is a joint initiative of the University of Waterloo, Wilfrid Laurier University and the Centre for International Governance Innovation. The BSIA sits at the heart of the 'intellectual square mile' in Waterloo, straddling two renowned higher education institutions. This Chair will be held jointly at the University of Waterloo and Wilfrid Laurier University.
Established in 1957, the University of Waterloo is one of Canada’s leading research universities, highly respected for its innovative academic programs, focus on technology and international connections. It recently launched its new “Technology Governance Initiative” to reflect a technology-embracing approach to core aspects of its research and teaching programs. The Fulbright Chairs are an integral part of the university’s internationalization strategy and its commitment to promoting interdisciplinary research.
Wilfrid Laurier University is a leading Canadian university known for academic excellence and a culture that inspires lives of leadership and purpose. Established in 1911, Laurier has a distinct commitment to teaching, research and scholarship combined with a strong student focus and a deep sense of community.
Specializations: In one or more of the core research areas of the School: conflict and security; environment and resources; global political economy; migration, mobilities and social policies; global institutions; diplomacy and justice; STEM for global resilience, technology governance.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Digitization and Democracy, McMaster University
Digital Society Hub & Department of Political Science
The Department of Political Science will host a visiting scholar interested in the implications of digital technologies for democracy. This scholar will interact with existing and emerging research on these issues in the Political Science and other departments. As one of Canada’s leading universities, known for its innovation and research intensiveness, McMaster University offers visiting scholars exciting and unique opportunities for research, education and collaboration.
There are a wide range of potential themes that this could involve, such as the impact of online disinformation; online voting; digital activism; e-government; platform capitalism; digitization and shifting conceptions of public and private; the impacts of digitization political narratives and affects; democracies and cyberwar, among others.
Specializations: Online disinformation; online voting; digital activism; e-government; platform capitalism; digitization and shifting conceptions of public and private; the impacts of digitization political narratives and affects; democracies and cyberwar.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Housing Policy & Society, McMaster University
Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC)
The Canadian Housing Evidence Collaborative (CHEC) and the Faculty of Social Sciences will host a visiting scholar in the area of housing policy and society in a department appropriate to the candidate’s background or interests. This scholar will interact with existing and emerging research on these issues in within relevant departments and research centres in the Faculty. As one of Canada’s leading universities, known for its innovation and research intensiveness, McMaster University offers visiting scholars exciting and unique opportunities for research, education and collaboration.
There are a wide range of potential themes that this could involve, such as topics related to housing and health or other social problems, social and economic aspects of housing and housing policy, the intersection between social policy and housing policy or other topics related to affordable housing and policy.
Specializations: Housing policy; affordable housing; housing, health and well-being, housing and social equity.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Public Banking, McMaster University
Department of Political Science
The Department of Political Science will host a visiting scholar interested in the political economy of public banking. This scholar will interact with existing and emerging research on this issue in the Political Science and other departments. The scholar will also interact with the Public Banking Project at McMaster. As one of Canada’s leading universities, known for its innovation and research intensiveness, McMaster University offers visiting scholars exciting and unique opportunities for research, education and collaboration.
There are a wide range of potential themes that this Research Chair in Public Banking could involve. These include democracy, governance, energy, water, infrastructure, community, legal frameworks, social movements, community development, public-public collaboration, Indigenous sovereignty and economic development, and histories of specific public banks, among others.
The scholar would be expected to share their research and expertise at McMaster in the form of a workshop or public lecture. There would be opportunities to develop a joint research proposal.
Specializations: Public banks; public policy; social policy; law; political economy; environmental policy; Indigenous studies; green finance.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in International Studies, Université Laval
Graduate School of International Studies
The Graduate School of International Studies (ESEI) is a leading multidisciplinary hub for research, teaching, and public engagement in international issues. Deeply convinced that international questions call for disciplinary decompartmentalization, our exceptional scholars and experts produce cutting-edge and groundbreaking research in a number of fields, including international commerce, global security, international law and international development. The Graduate School has six main Université Laval’s partners: the Faculty of Social Sciences; the Faculty of Law; the Faculty of Forestry, Geography and Geomatics; the Faculty of Business Administration; the Faculty of Agriculture and Food Sciences; and the Faculty of Arts and Human Sciences.
The Fulbright Chair in International Studies will welcome scholars from several disciplines. The Chair will support ESEI’s core mission of studying international questions in a dynamic, interdisciplinary, and stimulating way. The Fulbright Chair in International Studies will consolidate and expand the Graduate School’s strengths and expertise in one or more of the following areas, broadly defined: multidisciplinary methodology, international political economy, international law, security and conflict studies, geopolitics, international migration, international development, and international business and finance. The Graduate School will provide office space to the holder of the Fulbright Chair in International Studies, making sure to offer several opportunities to the holder to engage, exchange and discuss international issues with the Graduate School’s scholars and those based in the partnered Faculties.
Specializations: Multidisciplinary methodology, international political economy, international law, security and conflict studies, geopolitics, international migration, international development, and international business and finance.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Public Policy and Criminal Justice, University of Guelph
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Consistent with our commitment to reconciliation and the indigenization of the University, this research chair will examine the experience of Indigenous persons with the Canadian legal system, with a particular focus on criminal justice policy, as well as the examination of Indigenous legal systems as alternatives to western legal systems. Areas of potential research include legal dimensions of self government, overrepresentation of Indigenous persons in prisons, the experience of Indigenous persons in court, Indigenous judicial processes, the representation of Indigenous persons in the legal profession and on the bench, alternative sentencing remedies, and indigenous law and legal systems. We welcome scholars who study these issues from either a national or comparative perspective.
The University of Guelph is located on the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron people and the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. The University is committed to enhancing and supporting academic programs and research that fosters reconciliation and that serves a growing Indigenous student population. The University is also home to large and very popular undergraduate and graduate programs in Criminal Justice and Public Policy. It boasts faculty that are national and international leaders in the fields of criminal justice studies and law and public policy.
Specializations: Indigenous law and policy; Indigenous persons and the correctional system; Indigenous persons and judicial processes; Alternative judicial and criminal law processes; law and Indigenous self-government.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Health Law, Policy and Ethics, University of Ottawa
Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics
The University of Ottawa Centre for Health Law, Policy and Ethics is the largest centre of its kind in Canada and one of the largest in the world. The Chairholder will join our vibrant community of scholars, with the opportunity to interact with faculty and graduate students from law, social sciences, medicine, health sciences, management, and the arts. Our location in Ottawa will enable the Chairholder to address issues of national and international significance and to network with leading policy-makers and jurists. Please visit our website, www.ottawahealthlaw.ca, for a comprehensive list of Centre members and their research interests, and for more information about the Centre.
Specializations: Any field of inquiry within health law, policy, and ethics.