Faculty Research Fellowships

2011/2012

University of Victoria

Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy

Faculty Research Fellowships

The Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy at the University of Victoria invites applications from University of Victoria faculty members for fellowships of up to 6 months' duration during the 2011/12 academic year, beginning January 1, 2012. 

Purpose

The purpose of the fellowship is to provide scholars working on research projects related to co-operative and community-based economy with course-release time, suitable space and a stimulating environment conducive to writing and reflection.

Topics

The Centre welcomes applications from all disciplinary backgrounds for projects that promote the scholarly study of subjects related to co-operative and community-based economic arrangements. ‘Co-operative and community-based economy’ is taken to refer to collective undertakings, not necessarily co-operatives:

•  aimed at providing the needs and wants of some community or group, where any profits are a means of supplying those needs and wants,
•  managed autonomously and by democratic processes, and
•  in which persons and their participation are given priority over capital in the distribution of any surplus.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: conditions, including policies, that give rise to, or inhibit, co-operative and community-based economic activity; the relations between co-operative and community-based economic organizations and other forms of enterprise, examinations of sectoral organizations (Health, Housing, Agriculture etc.); issues of representation and participation in co-operative and community-based economic arrangements; the history, sociology and/or anthropology of co-operative and community-based economic models; and co-operative and community-based arrangements as an instrument for sustainable community development, including indigenous settings.

Eligibility

Faculty members with a tenure-track or tenured appointment at the University of Victoria, who have a defined research project in hand.

Value

• teaching-release time equal to the value of one 1.5 credit course, and

• office space (wireless internet, fax and copy services) in the Centre’s premises in University House 2.

Conditions - Fellows are expected to:

•   conduct their work in their Centre office;

•   participate actively in the programs and activities of the Centre;

•   give at least one public seminar or lecture on the theme of their research;

acknowledge the Centre
in all publications arising from the fellowship, and deposit one copy of such
publications in the Centre's library.

Research
products will be eligible for consideration as an occasional paper published by
the Centre.

Application Procedure
- Applications should include:

1.              
a covering
letter;

2.             
a descriptive
title of the research area;

3.             
a detailed
statement of the research proposal in a form that makes the applicant's
intentions fully understandable to experts in his or her own discipline
(maximum 5 pages);

4.             
a letter of
support from the applicant's Dean or Department Chair granting release time
from teaching duties;a current curriculum vitae; and

5.             
letters of
reference from three scholars who might support the proposed project.

The Centre may also choose to solicit the opinions
of other referees.  Application
forms should be submitted in electronic form. Paper copies will be accepted
only for supporting material (e.g. transcripts and reference letters).

Application
Deadline   –  31  October 2010

Completed
applications should be submitted to Dr. Ana Maria Peredo, Centre for
Co-operative and Community-Based Economy, University of Victoria. Applications
should be sent by email to vvm@uvic.ca or by
mail or courier to the Centre for Co-operative and Community-Based Economy,
University House 2, Room 109, PO Box 3060, Victoria, BC V8W3R4.

Selection will be made by the CCCBE Program Committee based on the
academic merit of the proposal, the views of the referees, and the recent
scholarly activity of the candidate. Proposals submitted outside of the regular
application deadline schedule may also be considered at the discretion of the
director.