Resident Fellowship in Applied Ethics

The CIH established this fellowship in 2020. We award the Fellowship in Applied Ethics every two years.

The Fellowship's principal objectives are to support research and community engagement on the topic of applied ethics. This can include:

• environmental ethics

• medical ethics

• Indigenous ethics

• professional ethics

• social justice

• and moral standing, among others.

The field of applied ethics is especially appropriate for the CIH, given our long of history of promoting both the value of the humanities and the importance of civic dialogue. Ethics are at the heart of the humanities, and considerations of ethics are one of the key contributions the humanities can make to a thriving public sphere.

The Fellow will provide a public lecture during the term of the Fellowship. Terms of reference of the award stipulate that this is a resident fellowship. Your location will be at the Institute during the term of your appointment. You will participate fully in the intellectual community of the CIH.

The Fellowship will provide office space and one full-course equivalent course release (2 HCE) for a University faculty member who is pursuing research in any field of Applied Ethics. Fellows will not receive a direct stipend. The term of the fellowship will normally be one year.

All scholars with teaching appointments at the University of Calgary that continue through the 2025-26 academic year will be eligible to apply for the next Resident Fellowship in Applied Ethics. Awards are subject to budgetary approval.

Full-time faculty of the University of Calgary who have previously held an Annual Fellowship or a Fellowship in Applied Ethics are eligible for another Fellowship five years after the completion of the first. In addition to considering the merits of the new project, however, special attention will be paid to the productivity resulting from the first Fellowship.