Multi-Faith Centre Research Fellowship

U of T’s Multi-Faith Centre for Spiritual Study and Practice is a place of community where students can explore spirituality, faith and self-development in all of its complexities. The Centre is a catalyst on campus for interfaith co-operation and navigating religious pluralism, including secular humanism. We engage students in questions of inclusion and difference, especially as students grapple with religious identity, spiritual development and meaning.

Given the interdisciplinary nature of this fellowship, it will be awarded to a graduate student enrolled in any of U of T’s programs as long as the student can demonstrate how their research interest intersects with the mission of the Centre.

The research fellow will have the opportunity to apply their scholarship to student programming, while contributing to scholarship at the Multi-Faith Centre by advancing research on the role of religion and spirituality in student/young adult development within the broader framework of how religion and spirituality is understood in society.

The research will also take into account:

1. A peace-building framework that encourages awareness, understanding and the ability to interact with religious pluralism in a respectful and responsible manner.
2. Contemporary intersectional issues, e.g. xenophobia, racism and gender.