Sessional Postings

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD, in hydrology, physical geography,   environmental science, or a related discipline, and demonstrated expertise in physical hydrology as well as relevant teaching experience.

Qualifications include a strong understanding of the hydrologic cycle and its components (e.g., precipitation, evapotranspiration, streamflow, and storage reservoirs), experience with standard hydrologic instrumentation and field methods. Candidates should have experience conducting field hydrology tasks and applying standard analytical techniques in applied hydrology. Knowledge of western North America's hydrology, the ability to connect theoretical concepts to current water issues, and the ability to teach data analysis using open-source software (Python) is highly desirable.

This course has a Quantitative designation; course content must fulfill this requirement (https://www.sfu.ca/ugcr/for_faculty/wqb_criteria_and_definitions/breadth.html).

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD in geography or a related discipline, and relevant demonstrated ability to teach in the classroom, at the Upper Division, to students with a wide range of backgrounds in social science. 

Qualifications include the ability to lead students in advanced, critical engagement with key literature and debates on social, political, cultural, and economic aspects of gentrification and its relationship to wider forces and processes of urban change. Candidates should also show that they can teach on the development of and debates within the gentrification literature.

Candidates should be able to speak about examples from various parts of the world.

This course has a Writing designation; course content must fulfill this requirement (https://www.sfu.ca/ugcr/for_faculty/wqb_criteria_and_definitions/breadth.html).

1 x 2-hour lecture (Monday, 2:30-4:20pm); 1x2-hour tutorial; TA supervision.

* This course has a field trip. Include a field trip plan and budget. Course fees collected as part of tuition are $19.01 per student; additional fees can be collected if required.

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD in geography and relevant demonstrated ability to teach in the classroom to students with a wide range of backgrounds in social science.

Qualifications include: the ability to provide students with geographical knowledge of the relationship between agriculture (broadly defined to range from the agro-industrial to its small-scale urban forms) to health, gender, rural and urban development, political movements, environmental sustainability, economic and social inequalities and global migration. Candidates should be able to help students think critically about the relationships between agricultural production and socioeconomic, cultural and environmental issues across various scales and spaces. Candidates who can speak about examples from various parts of the world will be favoured.

Applicants should have a graduate degree, preferably a PhD in geography or a related discipline, and relevant demonstrated ability to teach in the classroom, particularly in seminar-style courses, at the Upper Division, to students with a wide range of backgrounds in social science. 

Qualifications include the ability to lead students in advanced, critical engagement with key literature and debates at the intersection of urban geography and urban politics, broadly defined.

Since the course offers students a Capstone experience, the instructor should have the demonstrated ability to facilitate project-based research and to offer students advice on how to build on their geographic skills after their undergraduate career.

Candidates should be able to speak about examples from various parts of the world.