Funding is available for an MA student in environmental anthropology at the University of Saskatchewan, beginning in September, 2017. Prof. Clint Westman is leading a community-engaged research project focusing on the resource extraction sector's impacts and processes with respect to Aboriginal people in northern Alberta. The project provides an opportunity for MA students to undertake ethnographic fieldwork in a northern community. Funding is available to support fieldwork and to provide at least $15,000 to the successful student, who will work as a research assistant in year one of the MA program. Similar funding may be provided in year two of the MA program subject to satisfactory performance and available funds. Students may also be eligible for an admission award. Application deadline is January 15, 2017. For further information see
This PhD project will address mining in the Arctic from a historical perspective. Potential areas of study include amongst others the development of mining governance across different regions of the Arctic, the development of environmental management in relation to resource extraction, relations between mining companies and indigenous peoples, concepts of social license and corporate social responsibility, and the role of mining in political discourse.
The PhD project is placed at the Division of History of Science, Technology and Environment, an integrative post-disciplinary division for research, education and societal engagement. Our point of departure is that science and technology are part of our culture, and shape and change environments and conditions for life on earth. Therefore historical studies of this field is central for understanding contemporary conditions and future change. At the division, the successful applicant will be part of a group of PhD students within the Nordic Centre of Excellence REXSAC – 'Resource Extraction and Sustainable Arctic Communities'. REXSAC is an interdisciplinary research environment which aim to provide new thinking about sustainable development, especially in the context of Arctic mining.
