Preference will be given to candidates with an understanding and sensitivity to Nunavut issues and to Inuit culture and values. Ability to speak Inuktitut is an asset as is proficiency in both official languages. All applications will be treated confidentially. Further information available on request. The deadline for the receipt of resumes is August 13th.
Priority is given to emerging independent researchers and women's groups.
In the past we have funded research on tracing the process of elderly women's poverty, on exploring the trainig outcomes of women in the fishery adjustment programmes in Newfoundland and Labrador, on women of colour as adult survivors of incest, on women's healing circles, on rural feminist activism, on women with disabilities and their experience with the Calgary handi-bus, to name a few. Deadline for applications is August 31, 1999.