- About
- Inquiry Support
- Seminar Series, Workshops, & Programs
- SoTL 101: Introduction to SoTL and Teaching + Learning Inquiry
- SoTL 102: Formulating an Inquiry Project
- Tools for Inquiry: Conducting Inquiry Using CES
- Amundsen Fellowship Program
- Decolonial Teaching + Learning Seminar Series
- Decolonizing and Indigenizing Curricula
- Disrupting Colonialism through Teaching Program
- Exploring Well-being in Learning Environments: An Integrated Seminar Series + Grants Program
- Inquiring into Your Multilingual Classroom: An Integrated Seminar Series + Grants Program
- New Ways of Teaching, New Ways of Learning: Supporting Learning in Online Environments
- Open Education Grant Pilot Program
- Teaching and Learning Development Grant Program
- Project Final Report Archive
- Amundsen Fellowship Program
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Sarah Johnson
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Robert Krider
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Jamie Mulholland
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Michael Filimowicz
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Kathleen Fitzpatrick
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Lisa Papania
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Juan Pablo Alperin
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Marek Hatala
- Dewey Fellowship Project: Chantal Gibson
- Amundsen Fellowship Project: Leith Davis
- Amundsen Fellowship Project: Tara Holland
- Amundsen Fellowship Project: Dara Culhane
- Disrupting Colonialism through Teaching Program
- Exploring Well-being in Learning Environments Program
- Inquiring into Your Multilingual Classroom Projects
- New Ways of Teaching, New Ways of Learning
- Amundsen Fellowship Program
- Conferences, Calls for Papers + Proposals
- Equity and/in the Classroom: The Inner Work of Building Inclusive Classrooms [Date: March 18, 2025]
- Dialogically Relational Leadership (Growing Together in, as, with, for, and through SoTL) [Event date: March 19, 2025]
- CfP:Elon University 21st Annual Teaching & Learning Conference [Deadline: March 21, 2025]
- CfP: Waterlook Digital Pedagogy Institute [Deadline: April 25, 2025]
- 2025 Scholarly Writing Retreat Conference [Deadline: May 1, 2025]
- Students As Partners Roundtable [Save the Date: June 25-27, 2025]
- Digital Pedagogy Conference [Save the date: August 12-14, 2025]
- 2025 Banff Symposium for SoTL [Save the date: Oct 14-16, 2025]
- For Research Personnel
For Research Personnel
Just how do I get TILT research personnel position?
We get this question A LOT. We also review hundreds of research applications each year. We’ve created a list of best practises to help with make your application a successful one.
- Read and follow all application instructions. Really. This is very important. If you can’t follow the application instructions, why would we want to hire you?
- Apply to the job posting. If the posting asks for specific skills and experience, be sure to put them in your application. What if you don’t have that skill? Make note in your cover letter, and explain how your other skills and experience can make up for it.
- Update your skills.
- SFU Student Learning Commons - offers workshops on writing, how to conduct a literature review, Zotero, NVIVO and R
- Bibliographic software – Mendelay, Endnote, Zotero – they are all similar. Using one of them will make your life easier when writing papers or your thesis, and will give you an advantage when applying for a research assistant position.
- Digitial Humanities Innovation Lab (DHIL) - offers workshops on topics like textual analysis and storyboarding
- Review other advertised research personnel positions and look at the skill and experience requirements.
- SFU Student Learning Commons - offers workshops on writing, how to conduct a literature review, Zotero, NVIVO and R
- Join our research personnel opportunity maillist. All of our research positions are posted on the list. We sometimes post other opportunities as well.
- Read up on TILT, the project and/or the faculty member heading the research project. The job is about research afterall, so show that you can do a bit of research.
- Be prepared. You will be asked about your previous research experience in detail.
- Contact your referees. Let your references know they might be contacted about the position. Be sure to give them some information about the position so they can speak to why you are the best candidate!
Current Research Personnel Opportunities
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