PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Anthropology in Canada

The University of Toronto is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow to join an interdisciplinary team studying the sustainability of Canada’s blood system. The fellow will contribute to the project’s social science components, with a primary focus on raising awareness about blood donation among youth and racialized communities. The work will engage with donation studies and community-based participatory research, connecting scholarship with communities and the social dimensions of blood donation. The ...

The Pouladi Laboratory in the Department of Medical Genetics at The University of British Columbia is seeking a full-time Research Associate at the UBC Hospital Site in Vancouver. Reporting to Dr. Mahmoud Pouladi, the researcher will investigate the biology and treatment of genetic neurological disorders using complementary mouse and human pluripotent stem cell models. The project will involve developing and analyzing novel disease models, examining brain-development defects, and conducting prec...

The Liber Ero Postdoctoral Fellowship Program supports early-career scientists working on conservation and management issues relevant to Canada. The program is designed for research that is both applied and forward-looking, encouraging fellows to address time-sensitive management challenges and difficult “wicked” conservation problems through novel analyses, perspectives, and collaborations. Fellows can pursue natural, social, or interdisciplinary research related to conservation science. The pr...

The University of British Columbia’s MacIsaac School of Nursing is advertising three full-time Postdoctoral Research Fellow positions focused on boys’ and men’s emotional and relational health . The postdoctoral research programme covers three interconnected areas: Coping and Consumption , Social Connection , and Early Fatherhood . Across these themes, the fellows will contribute to research examining emotional wellbeing, relationships, coping behaviours, social connection, and the transition to...

The University of British Columbia’s MacIsaac School of Nursing invites applications for three full-time Postdoctoral Fellows in the Movember Institute Discovery Research Program. Based at the UBC Vancouver campus, the Fellows will contribute to an international research program focused on building capacity in boys’ and men’s emotional and relational health. Each Fellow will design, lead, and deliver an independent five-year research program focused primarily on underserved boys and young men ag...

This postdoctoral appointment is hosted by the Indian Ocean World Centre in the Department of History & Classical Studies at McGill University . The project examines the history of the Indian Ocean World, a vast macro-region stretching from East Asia to Eastern Africa, from around 1800 to the present, with a focus on how major environmental events shaped societies and politics. The research agenda centres on one of two themes: the impact of sulphur-rich volcanic eruptions or cyclones . The succe...

Killam Research Fellowships provide support to scholars of exceptional ability for major research projects with broad significance and widespread interest. The scheme is designed to give recipients time to pursue advanced research across a wide disciplinary range. The fellowship is open to work in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, and interdisciplinary studies that link these fields. It is therefore suited to researchers developing ambitious project...

The Olden Lab in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia is offering funded MSc and PhD opportunities in freshwater science in Vancouver, Canada. The positions focus on major freshwater research challenges, including freshwater conservation , climate change, sustainable water management, biodiversity, environmental DNA (eDNA), and machine learning. Students will be able to develop research connected to the conservation and management of freshwater...

Simon Fraser University is inviting applications to its research-focused PhD programme in Linguistics for the Fall 2027 intake in Canada. The programme is designed for scholars pursuing advanced research on how language is structured, acquired, used and varied across communities. Potential research directions include language acquisition and cognition , linguistic diversity and variation, meaning and language use, phonetics and phonology, linguistic theory, and computational approaches to langua...