Career and Funding Opportunities
Working to make a difference
When you work at the School for Resource and Environmental Studies (SRES), you’re contributing to meaningful initiatives that will improve the lives of future generations. Every day, you’ll help educate committed, enthusiastic students about these important issues. If you choose SRES, you’ll join a team of creative, dedicated professionals, committed to improving how humans use the earth’s resources.
Faculty & sessional positions
As a faculty member or sessional instructor, you have the opportunity to work with outstanding students, gain valuable experience, and communicate and educate on issues of great importance.
- Nothing available at this time
Post-doctoral opportunities
- Nothing available at this time
Funded Student Opportunities (IDPhD and MES)
As a funded student (i.e. through a faculty member`s research project), you will have the opportunity to work on real-world research projects relating to issues of pressing concern to society, government and industry.
- Funded Masters of Environmental Studies Research Opportunity: Understanding barriers to, and modelling of opportunities to expand blue mussel culture in the North Atlantic
- Seeking students to undertake the MES program and research associated with examining both qualitative and quantitative measures of coastal vulnerability on Sable Island National Park Reserve
Teaching and research assistants
Many SRES students find Teaching Assistant or Research Assistant positions. Opportunities are posted, usually to students throughout the university, and there is an application process.
Positions within SRES are limited but our students are targeted for many positions with other departments such as the undergraduate Environmental Science Program and the College of Sustainability. Often these are sent to the School for distribution via email, but most can also be found in the University's daily Newsletter, Today@Dal, as well as on the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) website.