Short-Term Job Opportunity: Graduate Student Researcher

Robert Daum (Fellow & Program Lead in Diversity and Innovation, SFU Centre for Dialogue) and Lindsay Heller (Fellow in Indigenous Ways of Knowing, SFU Centre for Dialogue) are seeking 1 or 2 graduate student researchers to work on a project for the Department of Justice, titled “Experiences of Indigenous families in the family justice system (FJS): Perspectives from legal and frontline family justice professionals”. The graduate student researchers will be responsible for tackling 1 or 2 questions via desktop research.

The first draft of the project is due no later than Friday, March 3; for this reason, researchers’ completed reports must be completed by Monday, February 13.

Each researcher should expect to devote around 50 hours to desktop research (on two questions) and virtual meetings with the team to plan, check in and review progress. Compensation will be offered at the upper end of SFU’s rate guidelines: $34.72/hour including benefits for MA students and $40.88/hour including benefits for PhD students. Graduate student researchers who only have capacity for 25 hours of work (i.e., one question) are still encouraged to reach out.

The report will be published by the Department of Justice and all team members will be identified as co-authors. It is important to note that the Government of Canada will retain copyright ownership of the report. There may be opportunities for the full team to interact with officials in the Department of Justice and with a network of researchers elsewhere in government with an interest in this project.

Please contact robert_daum@sfu.ca and lindsay_heller@sfu.ca for more information.