Job posting: FT lab manager
CLEAR lab at Memorial University is seeking a full-time (35 hrs/week) lab manager. Closing date: June 2, 2023
Author: Max Liboiron
Master’s positions (MA & MSc) in plastics and justice-based research methods
CLEAR has four Master’s positions (MA or MSc) for September 2023
OFI short term visiting fellowship
There’s a paid opportunity for a visiting fellow to work with CLEAR at Memorial University for 2 weeks-4 months on ocean-related research. Details of the competition are here:…
Research Assistant positions for MFN, NG, and NCC students (MUNL St. John’s campus)
CLEAR lab has openings for undergraduate and graduate student research assistants to work on environmental samples from Miawpukek First Nation, the Nunatsiavut Government, and NunatuKavut Community Co…
PhD position in Indigenous Quantitative Methods
New position for a PhD student on a project about Indigenous Quantitative Methods based in the Geography Department at Memorial University
Research Assistant positions in natural and social sciences
CLEAR is hiring multiple part-time (8-30 hours/week, flexible) research assistant positions to work on a variety of projects in the natural and social sciences.
Knowledge quilt
CLEAR Artist in Residence Dr. Pam Hall led us in the creation of a knowledge quilt made from parts of a lab coat.
Collective Consent for research projects
When a researcher asks to use CLEAR as a study site, we use a collective consent process to decide together.
Hiring FT or PT research writer
CLEAR is hiring a research writer to aid in the write-up of academic articles and/or community reports and whitepapers on the following topics: plastic pollution monitoring and laboratory…
Hiring full-time & part-time research positions in Indigenous methodologies and feminist STS (fall 2022)
CLEAR is hiring one part-time (~10 hours/week) and one full-time (30-35 hours/week) research assistant position for the fall of 2022. The positions will start in September or October…
Summer Research Positions in plastic pollution research (high school/youth), St. John’s or Nunatsiavut
We have four full time and part time positions for high school students and youth (under 30) in the lab this summer (2022)
Hiring: Inuit Research Assistants (remote work)
We are looking to hire several Inuit Research Assistants to help us conduct a systematic literature review to look at the role of Nunavut Arctic College in research,…
Catching an Authentic Lake Trout: Knowledge Legitimization in Academia
Drawing from my lived experience with Lake Trout as a member of NunatuKavut who grew up in southern Labrador and a student at a colonial university, I discuss…
Citational politics in tight places
How might we improve citational politics in “tight places” where not only the norms of citation but also the structure of knowledge or research overdetermines what might be…
Starting CLEAR, maintaining CLEAR
I get a lot of emails asking how I started the lab, how junior scholars might start labs, and how to transform existing labs. This post outlines how…
Master’s Student position: Wild food movements and contaminants of concern in Imappivut
In partnership with the Nunatsiavut Government, we are recruiting a Master’s student to work on the project Wild food movements and contaminants of concern in Imappivut.
Hiring two research assistants in Indigenous quantitive methodologies
CLEAR is hiring two part-time research assistants to help study Indigenous and decolonial quantitative methodologies.
CLEAR mini-documentaries
CLEAR has worked with Couple3 Films to make a series of short documentaries about the lab and our processes. We’ve also brought those processes into the filmmaking.
Join us for ‘Laboratory Life’ film launches
The Lab Life series investigates what seem like mundane lab practices, but are critical to scientific humility, accountability and equity.
Citational politics bibliography
A bibliography on the politics of citation and references
Firsting in Research
Declaring that a research is the “first” to discover, do, or go somewhere is not only rarely correct, given myriad local knowledges since time immemorial, but is also…
Firsting in Research
Declaring that a research project is the “first” to discover something is not only rarely correct, given the myriad local knowledges operating since time immemorial, but is also…
How to Twitter Conference (#Discard2020)
In November 2020, Discard Studies held our first ever Twitter Conference. Here’s how it worked! #TwitterConference
There’s no such thing as “We”
Put simply, evoking the universal “we” is a way to discard differences and maintain business as usual.