The VAW Research Team, led by Dr. Alexa Yakubovich, is seeking highly motivated candidates for a Postdoctoral Fellowship within the Department of Community Health and Epidemiology at Dalhousie University (Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada). The successful candidate will work on action-oriented, intervention research focused on strengthening systems responses to violence against women and gender diverse people. The team works with community, practice, and policy partners on studies that use qualitative, quantitative, mixed, and knowledge synthesis methods to understand burdens of violence and evaluate intervention and policy responses. The postdoctoral fellowship will be situated within a federally (CIHR) funded project focused on designing, implementing, and evaluating intervention strategies to strengthen health systems responses to domestic and sexualized violence in Canada, with a particular focus on the province of Nova Scotia. For more information, please visit vawresearch.com.

Under the supervision of Dr. Yakubovich, the Postdoctoral Fellow will take a leadership role in supporting partner engagement, protocol development, qualitative and quantitative data collection, data management and analysis, and the preparation of manuscripts, reports, and presentations. The Postdoctoral Fellow will be involved in intervention research, implementation science, and partnership-based research projects using mixed methods. The successful candidate will be supported in applying for competitive postdoctoral fellowships.