March 15, 2023

CMSS Research Fellowships - Applications Open

The Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies is glad to invite applications from any faculty member at the University of Calgary for a six-month research fellowship that includes a half-course release during the Fall or Winter semester.

Call for Applications – CMSS Research Fellowship

 

The Centre for Military, Security and Strategic Studies is glad to invite applications from any faculty member at the University of Calgary for a six-month research fellowship that includes a half-course release during the Fall or Winter semester. This is to supplement work on a research project that relates to one of the specific CMSS research themes:

  • 21st Century Security:  Shifting global contexts and emerging security challenges and opportunities, such as Arctic energy and environments, climate change, cybersecurity, autonomous weapons and enhanced soldiers, health, migration, and citizenship.
  • National Security and Defence: National security, security institutions, and defence policies and processes.
  • Conventional and Unconventional Warfare and Conflict: Military theory, practice, and strategy, as well as asymmetrical non-state violence, laws of armed conflict, and atrocity crimes.
  • Human Rights, Peace and Development: Policies, institutions, and processes to build and sustain peaceful and inclusive societies.

Inter-disciplinary work is highly commended. One Fellowship awarded per term. Please submit an updated CV, a one-page proposal, and departmental approval to CMSS Director hiebertm@ucalgary.ca  

Deadline for applications: April 30th

Adjudication will be completed mid-May.

 

Winter 2023 Fellowship recipient Dr. Saulesh Yessenova is working on the theory of nuclear deterrence  -