Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Critical Mineral

5 months ago

Thunder Bay, Canada Lakehead University Full time

**Lakehead University (Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada)**

**Tenure-Track Assistant or Associate Appointment**

**Tier 2 Canada Research Chair in Critical Mineral Systems**

This tenure-track appointment will be at the rank of Assistant or Associate Professor. This CRC position is for five (5) years and is renewable once. Tier 2 Canada Research Chairs are intended for outstanding and innovative emerging researchers whose accomplishments have made a major impact in their fields and are recognized as leaders in their fields.

By combining discovery and translational research, the Chair will increase the research capacity and training opportunities at Lakehead University. The Chair will add to the continuing development of research excellence in Critical Minerals within the University.

**Lakehead University and our Community**

Lakehead University is recognized as one of Canada’s top research-intensive universities in its category for the last decade (Research Info$ource). Aligned with our Strategic Plan, Research Plan, CRC Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, and Institutional EDI Action Plan, we are actively recruiting outstanding scholars to enhance and grow our research and innovation capacity. Situated in the diverse and multicultural communities of Thunder Bay and Orillia, our unique campuses and their locations inspire us to discover and innovate in exciting and non-traditional ways.

Lakehead is a comprehensive university with a reputation for innovative programs and cutting-edge research. Our campuses are located in Thunder Bay on the traditional lands of the Fort William First Nation, Signatory to the Robinson Superior Treaty of 1850 and in Orillia on the traditional territory of the Anishinaabeg, and Rama First Nation. Lakehead University acknowledges the history that many nations hold in the areas around our campuses and is committed to a relationship with Métis and Inuit and First Nations peoples.

**The Faculty**

The appointment of this Canada Research Chair will be in the Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies (FSES) and specifically in the Department of Geology at the Thunder Bay campus. FSES has ten departments and offers Bachelor, Master’s and Doctoral degrees, including programs that cross departmental boundaries. For information about the Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies, please visit our website.

**Requirements**:

- be excellent emerging world-class researchers who have demonstrated research creativity;
- have demonstrated the potential to achieve international recognition in their fields in the next five to ten years;
- as chairholders, have the potential to attract, develop and retain excellent trainers, students and future researchers; and
- be proposing an original, innovative research program of the highest quality.

CRCs at Lakehead University are appointed and governed by the provisions of the Lakehead University Faculty Association Collective Agreement. For the duration of the CRC, the CRC will be given a reduced teaching load in order to dedicate the majority of their time to research, be provided with a start-up grant, an annual research grant, and research space appropriate for the proposed CRC’s program of research.

**Application Deadline and Process**
- ** A curriculum vitae (CV)** that provides a clear sense of your scholarly and professional development via your education and your research activities and outcomes; your contributions to making critical mineral systems a more equitable and inclusive discipline through committee work, community engagement, media, and advocacy.
- ** Description of Proposed Research **(up to 2 pages) that describes your proposed CRC program of research. The proposal should include an executive summary and outline context, methodology, engagement with research users and communication of results, and list of references. You are also to include a plan for establishing and maintaining a diverse core team (page limitation excludes the summary and list of references) (see link provided (see the link for Lakehead University’s Strategic Research Plan for additional information).
- ** Teaching statement** (up to 1 page) and a dossier of syllabi and other evidence, if available. These must demonstrate how you engage, encourage, and develop the learning capacity of students entering higher education from a diverse array of backgrounds, and how you embed practices and principles of equity, diversity and inclusion in your classroom, your assignments, and your classroom style.
- ** Research Contributions** (no page limit) Describe the contributions that you have made in your research area during the period in which you have received research funding. Please group your research contributions by category in the following order, with the most recent contributions listed first:

- Describe the five most significant research contributions that you have made during your career and explain the significance of each A list of your f

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