Award 25320-CA
Research Chairs in Education
- COMPETITION OPENS February 2024
- Awards to be taken up in the 2025-2026 Academic Year
- Applications accepted until September 16, 2024
- The next competition, for awards to be taken up in the 2026-2027 Academic Year, will open in February 2025
- US$25,000 for 4 months
- Grants begin in either September 2025 or January 2026
- 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.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Education, University of Alberta
The Faculty of Education at the University of Alberta is consistently one of the top faculties of education in Canada and is home to award-winning teachers, internationally recognized researchers, educational innovators, and community leaders. The Faculty’s strategic priorities include transformative teaching, learning and leading, Indigenous initiatives in education, and respectful relations, health and well-being. We are committed to advancing racial justice through anti-oppressive education.
Our focus on excellence in scholarship, research and teaching within one of the largest faculties of education in Canada, provides an outstanding context for collaborative, ground-breaking work.
Specializations: Anti-oppressive and social justice education, Indigenous education, and health and wellness education.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Embodiment and Mathematics Education
The Werklund School of Education at the University of Calgary is seeking a scholar who has advanced research and practice in the application of theories of embodied cognition to mathematics education. To complement the existing strengths of Werklund’s mathematics education researchers, we are seeking a scholar whose transdisciplinary work emphasizes the roles of culture and environment in embodied cognition and design. The scholar will conduct high-level research in their area of interest, while collaborating with an accomplished group of scholars working in this field at the University of Calgary. At the candidate’s discretion, there will be opportunities to offer guest lectures and/or research presentations and engage with active research projects. The University of Calgary is a leading Canadian university located in the nation’s most enterprising city, with a clear strategic initiative to lead innovative teaching and ground-breaking research, and to fully engage the communities we both serve and lead.
Specializations: Mathematics education; embodied cognition; transdisciplinarity; design.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Advanced Learning or Academically Gifted and Talented
The Werklund School of Education seeks a Fulbright Canada Scholar working with large datasets in the area of Advanced Learning and/or Academically Gifted and Talented. We are especially interested in candidates with active programs of research that involve analysis using large-scale administrative databases to make international educational comparisons (e.g., PIRLS, PISA, TIMSS). We seek a scholar with experience building analytic models and leveraging the value of assessments that examine student performance and provide information on other aspects of our education systems. Through involvement with researchers, practitioners, and policy makers, the Fulbright Scholar will help use these tools to assess factors such as which students are benefiting and which are languishing with the goal of transformative changes to improve student well-being and academic growth. Based in the internationally recognized Werklund School of Education, this scholar will collaborate with interdisciplinary programs across campus and with communities across Canada. The University of Calgary is a leading Canadian university located in the nation’s most enterprising city, with a clear strategic initiative to lead innovative teaching and ground-breaking research, and to fully engage the communities we both serve and lead.
Specializations: PIRLS, PISA, TIMSS, analytic modeling, international comparative research, big data, advanced learning, gifted education, achievement growth, student well-being.
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
Award: US$25,000-$38,000 for 4-6 months
The Chair will be hosted by the AVP, Teaching, Learning and Scholarship, under the VP Academic’s portfolio and primarily engaged in working with faculty in our graduate and undergraduate departments (4). The Research Chair will leverage supports and resources available from the Centre for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Research and Scholarship, as well as others as needed.
UCW Overview and Facts
Centre for Teaching Excellence
Associate Arts Degree Program
MBA Program
The Fulbright Canada UCW Research Chair in Scholarship of Teaching and Learning will join an innovative business and technology-oriented, teaching-focused institution. The University offers MBA, Associate Arts, Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Business Communication degrees. UCW student and faculty are exceptionally diverse with students from more than 110 countries. UCW is a specialized teaching focussed institution and places great importance on understanding and improving teaching and learning practices in higher education. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (SoTL) is a strength area within UCW and the university community embraces critical adoption of innovation in education practices and education technology and strives to enhance the quality of education and student outcomes. The Research Chair will leverage their expertise in education technology and hybrid and on-line teaching to collaborate with faculty on ongoing SoTL research efforts and identify and pursue new areas for study. The Research Chair will participate in regular seminars and workshops and provide a public lecture. The Chair will be integrated into the MBA and Associate Arts departments and leverage supports and resources available from the Centre for Teaching Excellence and the Office of Research and Scholarship.
Specializations: Active and applied learning, Hybrid learning, Educational technologies, tools and environments, AI in teaching, Flipped classroom, Curriculum design and assessment, Researcher-informed teaching practices in higher education.