Climate change, and the artful engineering of a cleaner and saner future, is literally at the front line of critical thinking.  But where garden variety activists may founder on policy, climate change research at least has a stolid base in hard science about what needs to be done and how that doing can be made manifest.  But egg head numbers and stern statistics matter little without that human touch, the flourishes and pieces of flair that allow politicians to escalate their prestige based on the glow of their persona’s power.

For climate change policies to work globally an intersectional geographic appraisal seems necessary.  And that is where this Research Assistant opportunity emerges.  This job entails “meeting and story sharing between people working on the front lines of climate change in Bogota, Columbia; Phoenix, Arizona; and Southern Ontario, Canada.” Team meetings, literature reviews, and research projects within this realm are part of the process, and students should have completed one or more social science or interdisciplinary programs while also possessing that unique skill set of an Athabasca student: ability to work “collaboratively as well as independently”.

If that sounds your bent, please submit your cover letter, resume, transcript and one or two references to the esteemed Dr.  Suzanne McCullagh at smmcullagh@athabascau.ca