Assistant Professor: Mobility Justice: Equity & Mobilities, Simon Fraser University

Job Posting – Mobility Justice:
Equity & Mobilities Assistant Professor

The Urban Studies Program (URB) at Simon Fraser University is a vibrantly interdisciplinary and collegial unit committed to engagements with critical urban studies through research, teaching, and connections with local and regional policy and practice.

We are an established post-graduate program offering two credentials, a graduate diploma and a Master’s of Arts in Urban Studies, and we launched a new undergraduate degree, Urban Worlds, in 2024.

We invite applications for a full-time tenure-track position in Mobility Justice:
Equity & Mobilities at the rank of Assistant Professor starting as early as July 15, 2027.

The successful candidate must have a PhD in urban studies, sociology, geography, political science, public health, planning, public policy or related discipline, completed by the appointment start date. PhD candidates with a solid indication of imminent completion may be hired at the rank of Instructor and will be promoted to the rank of Assistant Professor upon completion of their PhD.

The ideal candidate will have:

• Demonstrated research excellence, including a track record of research outputs in (but not limited to) one or more of the following areas: active transportation, public transit, micromobility, accessible cities, and related fields.
• An interdisciplinary research agenda that engages with disciplines such as urban planning, geography, sociology, political science, economics, public health, engineering, public policy, and related disciplines, in an effort to understand inequalities and mobility justice in one or more of the following areas: access to mobility, transportation, urban services and opportunities; accessibility and disability; urban design; socioeconomic inequalities; the political economy of transportation;
  
  and/or the uneven impacts of mobility systems across different populations and places.
• Mixed methods expertise, especially to enhance the quantitative and/or spatial analysis aspects of the Program’s research strengths and core curriculum.
• Demonstrated teaching experience in areas such as transportation, mobility, design, accessibility, disability, and quantitative or spatial methods.
• Demonstrated experience in, or potential to undertake, collaborative and community-engaged research with communities and/or community-based organizations working on issues related to mobility justice.
• A research agenda (existing or under development) in the Canadian or local BC region.
• Ability to work effectively with colleagues across disciplinary fields in the social sciences and humanities.
• Potential for, or demonstrated record of, administrative service contribution to university and academic communities.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to the University’s research excellence through a rigorous research program. The successful candidate will be expected to teach courses in both undergraduate and graduate programs: one of these courses will be Transportation and Urban Development (URB 460/660), and one course will be based out of our Surrey Campus. Graduate supervision is expected. A normal teaching load for a tenure-track research faculty member is four courses per year over two 13-week semesters.

Finally, it is expected that the successful candidate will contribute to the Program, Faculty, University, and academic community through service.

Applications should be received prior to November 30, 2026.

Faculty salaries at SFU are based on the salary scales bargained between the University and the SFU Faculty Association. A reasonable estimate of the salary range for the Assistant Professor rank is $104,700 to $133,322.

A reasonable estimate for salary if the successful candidate…