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Postdoctoral Fellow – Refugee Youth Transitions, Belonging, Education and Service Navigation
Please find on our website a job description for a part-time Postdoctoral Fellow position focused on refugee youth transitions, belonging, education, and service navigation.
The position is part of the SSHRC-funded UnborderED Knowledge research project and is hosted by Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services in Toronto, Ontario.
The successful candidate will lead a national participatory arts-based research project with current university students in Canada who have a forced migration background. Responsibilities include designing and implementing community-engaged research, training student participants in arts-based methods, supporting ethics applications and grant development, conducting data collection and analysis, and producing scholarly and knowledge mobilization outputs for academic, policy, and community audiences.
Applicants must have lived experience of forced migration, be legally entitled to work in Canada, and reside in Canada throughout the appointment. Demonstrated experience in arts-based research required.
Last date for application: July 17, 2026
Position begins on: August 10, 2026
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About UnborderED-SSF
Our bilingual, interdisciplinary, pan-Canadian partnership aims to widen, deepen and institutionalize access to higher education, research and training opportunities to bridge the gap between the talents of students and researchers with lived experiences of forced migration, and opportunities in Canadian research communities and labour markets.
Notre partenariat bilingue, interdisciplinaire et pancanadien vise à élargir, approfondir et institutionnaliser l'accès à l'enseignement supérieur, à la recherche et aux opportunités de formation afin de combler le fossé entre, d’une part, les talents des étudiant.es et des chercheurs.seuses ayant vécu l'expérience de la migration forcée et, de l’autre part, les opportunités offertes par les communautés de recherche et les marchés du travail canadiens.
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About the role
Postdoctoral Fellow – Refugee Youth Transitions, Belonging, Education and Service Navigation
Please find on our website a job description for a part-time Postdoctoral Fellow position focused on refugee youth transitions, belonging, education, and service navigation.
The position is part of the SSHRC-funded UnborderED Knowledge research project and is hosted by Access Alliance Multicultural Health and Community Services in Toronto, Ontario.
The successful candidate will lead a national participatory arts-based research project with current university students in Canada who have a forced migration background. Responsibilities include designing and implementing community-engaged research, training student participants in arts-based methods, supporting ethics applications and grant development, conducting data collection and analysis, and producing scholarly and knowledge mobilization outputs for academic, policy, and community audiences.
Applicants must have lived experience of forced migration, be legally entitled to work in Canada, and reside in Canada throughout the appointment. Demonstrated experience in arts-based research required.
Last date for application: July 17, 2026
Position begins on: August 10, 2026
Not the right fit? Search for Postdoctoral Fellow jobs in Toronto, Ontario, Canada
About UnborderED-SSF
Our bilingual, interdisciplinary, pan-Canadian partnership aims to widen, deepen and institutionalize access to higher education, research and training opportunities to bridge the gap between the talents of students and researchers with lived experiences of forced migration, and opportunities in Canadian research communities and labour markets.
Notre partenariat bilingue, interdisciplinaire et pancanadien vise à élargir, approfondir et institutionnaliser l'accès à l'enseignement supérieur, à la recherche et aux opportunités de formation afin de combler le fossé entre, d’une part, les talents des étudiant.es et des chercheurs.seuses ayant vécu l'expérience de la migration forcée et, de l’autre part, les opportunités offertes par les communautés de recherche et les marchés du travail canadiens.