Post-Doctoral Researcher

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Please refer to the How to Apply for a Job (for External Candidates) job aid for instructions on how to apply. If you are an active McGill employee (ie: currently in an active contract or position at McGill University), do not apply through this Career Site. Login to your McGill Workday account and apply to this posting using the Find Jobs report (type Find Jobs in the search bar). Faculty/Unit: School of Continuing Studies, Global and Strategic Communication Position Summary: McGill University's School of Continuing Studies is welcoming applications for Post-doctoral Researcher position. The selected post-doctoral researcher will join the research group for a period of one year. Full compensations and benefits are provided. We seek applications from early-career researchers of all regions of Canada interested in pursuing a post-doctoral research project related to access to justice for official language minority communities in Canada. Researchers may come from a wide variety of fields, including law, sociology, linguistics, political sciences, education, economy, social work, anthropology, etc. About the research group Activator: The successful candidate will join a newly formed research group (the "Activator") on access to justice for official language minority communities (OLMCs) in Canada. "Access to justice for OLMCs in Canada" refers to the capacity of individuals and communities whose first official language is not that of the majority population in their province or territory (i.e., Francophones outside Quebec and Anglophones in Quebec) to understand, use, and fully participate in the justice system in their own language. This area of research explores the legal, institutional, sociolinguistic, and policy-related dimensions that affect equitable treatment, linguistic rights, legal service delivery, and systemic inclusion of OLMCs within Canada's bilingual framework. It encompasses issues of language rights, service accessibility, quality and training of legal professionals, as well as the broader sociopolitical dynamics of legal empowerment, marginalization, and systemic inequality. Working in close collaboration with the Access to Justice stakeholders (Justice departments, lawyers' societies and other professionals' associations, institutional and educational organizations, jurilinguistics centres, other research groups and stakeholders), the Activator's objectives are: Create favourable circumstances for the development of a field of research and a community of research on access to justice for OLMCs Produce scientific data for and with the access to justice stakeholders (impact research) Ensure that research on access to justice for OLMCs continues beyond the Activator initiative and the post-doctoral scholarships During their affiliation with the research group, the post-doctoral scholars will: Participate in the Activator's ongoing research projects, working in close collaboration with the Access to justice stakeholders. Lead their one research project on Access to justice for OLMCs. Examples of areas of research and research questions include: Access to services What are the gaps between legal frameworks and their implementation regarding language rights in the justice system? To what extent are legal services available in both official languages across Canada's regions? What barriers do OLMCs face when trying to access legal aid or navigate the courts in their preferred official language? What are the impacts of unilingual legal proceedings on justice outcomes for OLMCs? How do legal information platforms and technologies serve (or fail) OLMCs in their language? Professionals and language capacity How is linguistic competence evaluated and developed among legal professionals working with OLMCs? What is the availability and distribution of bilingual judges, lawyers, notaries, and court staff in Canada? What is the role of legal interpreters and translators in ensuring procedural fairness for OLMCs? Training and education How do Canadian law schools incorporate training related to bilingualism and OLMCs legal realities? What educational pathways and incentives exist to train bilingual legal professionals? How do legal education and continuing professional development programs support access to justice for OLMCs? Community perspectives and experiences How do OLMCs individuals perceive their access to justice and the fairness of legal proceedings? What are the lived experiences of OLMCs litigants navigating legal processes in a minority language context? How do language and identity intersect with other social determinants (e.g., race, immigration status, Indigenous identity, disability) in shaping justice access? Systemic and structural issues: How do funding models and institutional practices affect the delivery of bilingual legal services? What are the structural causes of linguistic inequalities in the justice system? How do public policies and administrative structu

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