Capacity
Training & emerging scholars
The network aims to train more than two hundred graduate students, postdoctoral researchers and emerging scholars in comparative transdisciplinary environmental humanities.
Field intensives
Trainees join the OAiS Labs alongside faculty, curators and community partners — not as observers, but as contributors to the research design and the outputs.
Summer Institutes
An annual institute at the host of the year, covering transdisciplinary method, composite ethnography, archival practice and the politics of climate governance.
Funded positions
Well-funded opportunities advertised widely through academic and student associations and local community organisations, with reserved funding for emerging scholars.
First authorship
Emerging scholars are supported as first authors on co-publications, not credited at the end of a faculty-led list.
Multi-level mentorship
Mentorship runs across the network: faculty, partner staff, curators and community leads, so a trainee's guidance is not limited to one supervisor's discipline.
Alt-academic pathways
Work with museums, botanic gardens, conservation organisations and policy hubs builds real routes into curatorial, policy and NGO careers.
Summer Institutes
One host each year
Every institute is paired with the Spec Life Symposium for that year, so trainees present alongside the field research they helped produce.
Year 1
Concordia University
Montreal
Year 2
Brock University
St. Catharines
Year 3
York University
Toronto
Year 4
McMaster University
Hamilton
Year 5
Trent University
Peterborough
Year 6
Arizona State University
Tempe
Year 7
Concordia University
Montreal
Open calls
Funded positions and field intensive calls are posted as they open. Nothing is open at the moment — get in touch to be told when the next round is announced.