Tenure-Track Position in Community-Engaged Scholarship

Location - This role is in-person. Work primarily takes place at North Campus, Edmonton.

The Department of Psychology at the University of Alberta invites applications for a full-time tenure-track faculty position in Community-Engaged Scholarship in Psychology, at the rank of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2027.

The Position

The successful candidate will develop an interdisciplinary and impactful research program in community-engaged scholarship in the field of Psychology. We welcome applicants with expertise that complements and broadens our Department’s methodological strengths, coupled with substantive expertise in community-engaged research approaches. We particularly welcome applicants with expertise in Indigenous methodologies, Indigenous knowledge systems, or Indigenous approaches to Psychology. We also welcome applicants with a growing interdisciplinary and community-engaged research program using methodological approaches that respect Indigenous values, traditions, and relational accountability.

Experience working with Indigenous communities is strongly preferred.

Working for the Department of Psychology

The Department of Psychology has strengths in behavioural, cognitive, developmental and social neuroscience; cognition; comparative cognition and behaviour; developmental science; and social and cultural psychology. We offer a highly collegial and supportive work environment for new and established academics, with outstanding support for research and teaching, and an active Equity, Diversity, Inclusion, Indigenization and Reconciliation (EDI-IR) Committee. The Department of Psychology serves approximately 22,000 undergraduate students per year, including about 4,500 students enrolled in Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science programs with Psychology as their declared major or minor.

The Department offers Masters and PhD programs.

Members of our department are involved in centres, institutes, and networks across campus and beyond. The Community-University Partnership (CUP) for the Study of Children, Youth, and Families is a unique collaboration among the University of Alberta, community agencies, and organizations in Edmonton and across Alberta. CUP's goal is to advance knowledge, policies, and practices for the benefit of children, youth, and families.

The Psychology department has a long history of collaboration with CUP.

Living and Working in Edmonton, Alberta

With a population of approximately 1.5 million people, Edmonton is the sixth largest metropolitan area in Canada and has the second largest Indigenous population and the fourth largest Black population of any Canadian city. The Canadian Prairies are the second most densely populated Black region in Canada. Moreover, Black people as a demographic are growing faster in Alberta than in any other region, apart from central Canada.

Nearly 10% of Edmonton's population is of South Asian origin and 16% of East and Southeast Asian origin, with growing numbers of Edmontonians of Filipino, Latin American and Middle Eastern origins. The Edmonton public school system offers bilingual education for children in French, German, Hebrew, Spanish, Arabic, Chinese (Mandarin), and American Sign Language. Amiskwaciy Academy offers Cree as a high school credit and has started an Aboriginal study course in junior high school.

At least two high schools, Amiskwaciy Academy and Victoria School of the Arts, offer Cree and Blackfoot as a high school credit and have started an Indigenous Ways of Knowing program in junior high school

Responsibilities for the position include maintaining a community-engaged and externally funded research program in Psychology with expertise in…