Fulbright Scholar Program
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Food Security, University of Guelph
Food security exists when all people have access to sufficient, affordable, safe and healthy food to meet their dietary needs every day and food preferences for an active and health life. This Chair’s objective is to generate effective and innovative scientific contributions in research, teaching, and policy advice to reduce hunger and achieve food security in both the developed and developing world. Thematically, research activities will deal with issues of sustainable food availability, food access, food use and global food system efficiencies.
The University of Guelph is renowned in Canada and around the world as a research-intensive and learner-centered institution, committed to open learning, internationalism and collaboration. There is food related expertise embedded within all 7 colleges of the University but particularly in the Ontario Agricultural College which has a long history of teaching, research and service in food and agriculture topics. In addition, The Arrell Food Institute at the University of Guelph acts as a hub for initiatives related to food in all aspects and it is led by key research chairs including its director, Evan Fraser. The Arrell Food Institute has a mandate to drive understanding of innovation towards and action on the world’s food issues.
Specialization: Food Sustainability, availability, global food safety systems, food sovereignty, hunger alleviation, health and food research, food authenticity and provenance, food environment, agricultural systems, hospitality management, consumer trends and preferences, supply chains, food cultures and policies.
https://www.fulbright.ca/programs/american-scholars/research-chairs/food
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Public Policy and Criminal Justice, University of Guelph
College of Social and Applied Human Sciences
Consistent with our commitment to reconciliation and the indigenization of the University, this research chair will examine the experience of Indigenous persons with the Canadian legal system, with a particular focus on criminal justice policy, as well as the examination of Indigenous legal systems as alternatives to western legal systems. Areas of potential research include legal dimensions of self government, overrepresentation of Indigenous persons in prisons, the experience of Indigenous persons in court, Indigenous judicial processes, the representation of Indigenous persons in the legal profession and on the bench, alternative sentencing remedies, and indigenous law and legal systems. We welcome scholars who study these issues from either a national or comparative perspective.
The University of Guelph is located on the ancestral lands of the Attawandaron people and the treaty lands and territory of the Mississaugas of the Credit. The University is committed to enhancing and supporting academic programs and research that fosters reconciliation and that serves a growing Indigenous student population. The University is also home to large and very popular undergraduate and graduate programs in Criminal Justice and Public Policy. It boasts faculty that are national and international leaders in the fields of criminal justice studies and law and public policy.
Specializations: Indigenous law and policy; Indigenous persons and the correctional system; Indigenous persons and judicial processes; Alternative judicial and criminal law processes; law and Indigenous self government.
https://www.fulbright.ca/programs/american-scholars/research-chairs/indigenous
Fulbright Canada Research Chair in One Health, University of Guelph
The most serious issues facing humans, animals and the environment cannot be solved within current disciplinary silos. At the University of Guelph (UG), transdisciplinary One Health research and training brings disciplines together and leverages knowledge generation to benefit society.
This Research Chair will employ and extend the One Health framework in innovative ways, using approaches drawn from the spectrum of interdisciplinary areas under the One Health umbrella. These areas include research into diseases arising at the interface of human and animal populations and their shared environments, food safety and security, antimicrobial use and resistance, sustainable agriculture, and climate change, among others.
This Research Chair will contribute to the training of researchers and veterinarians, providing them with an understanding of the power of the One Health framework for addressing global health challenges. The Chair will have an opportunity to engage with a variety of One Health stakeholders including agri-food industries, federal and provincial human and animal health agencies, as well as drawing upon productive partnerships with research teams and centres at UG: the One Health Institute, Centre for Public Health and Zoonoses, the Cooperative Wildlife Health Cooperative and the Bench to Bedside Institute for Translational Health Research and Innovation.
Specialization: Zoonosis, disease surveillance, predictive health analytics, climate change, food and water safety, antimicrobial resistance, human and animal well-being, comparative medicine, translational medicine, eco-health, wildlife conservation, ecosystem resilience.
https://www.fulbright.ca/programs/american-scholars/research-chairs/health