The Faculty of Music at the University of Toronto is inviting applications for postdoctoral fellowships under the university’s Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. This program provides funding to Graduate Faculties to increase opportunities for hiring postdoctoral fellows from underrepresented groups, specifically Indigenous and Black researchers. These fellowships will enable postdoctoral researchers to grow their scholarly profiles, undertake academic work at the University of Toronto, and strengthen the research environment at the University with diverse perspectives.
The Faculty of Music welcomes applications from eligible scholars working in all areas of music research (musicology, ethnomusicology, music theory, music education, music and health sciences), music performance, composition, and research-creation.
Fellowships are valued at $70,000 CAD per year for up to two years, and funding is available to engage seven new postdoctoral fellows annually across the university.
The award is open to both domestic and international post-graduates.
Nominees must:
• Demonstrate academic excellence and high potential for success in their chosen fields;
• Identify as Indigenous and/or Black;
• Have obtained a doctoral degree(PhD or DMA),at the time the fellowship commences andnormally within the last five years from the start of the fellowship; and
• Not have held a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship previously.
Recipients must:
• Begin the fellowship by January 2023;
• Be a postdoctoral employee of the University of Toronto;
• Be associated with a supervisor appointed to a graduate unit;
• Register and remain registered with the Postdoctoral Office at School of Graduate Studies;
• Not hold concurrently another major fellowship;
• Not hold a faculty position or be on leave from such a position;
• Establish an IDP (Independent Development Plan) and submit to SGS within the first three months of the fellowship. The IDP should be reviewed annually, and the revised copy sent to the Postdoctoral Office at SGS; and
• Submit proof of completion of degree no later than three months after the fellowship commences if they had not fulfilled all requirements for their degree at the time of nomination.
A detailed call for applications, with an initial deadline of March 15, can be found by clicking this link: https://uoft.me/MusicPPFP22.
Applicants must be nominated by the Faculty of Music to SGS. Potential nominees interested in the Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program should contact the nominating supervisor. Supervisors wishing to support a candidate's application must contact their graduate unit/department Chair and affiliated Faculty Research Office to inquire about the Faculty's internal deadline and nomination process.
The nomination package for each nominee should be scanned as asingle PDF file, containing all application materials in the order as listed below:
1. A support letter fromthe graduate unit/department Chair, as per the selection criteria above (maximum two pages). Be sure to clearly state in the letter, with which underrepresented group (Indigenous and/or Black) the nominee identifies;
2. A nomination letterfrom the faculty advisor/mentor, as per the selection criteria above;
3. Statement of research intentfrom the nominee (maximum two pages);
4. Nominee’s C.V.(no page restriction); and
5. A short personal biographywritten by thenominee (150-words limit), which may be used on the SGS Postdoctoral Fellows website or other communications, should they be successfully selected as a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow
Results of the competition will be made availableand communicatedto Faculty Research Offices in May 2022.
For information regarding the nomination process and deadlines, please email:
Ely Lyonblum, Strategic Research Development Officer at ely.lyonblum@utoronto.ca