Membership Categories
- Affiliated Members: Open to Brock tenured and tenure-track faculty members, Emeritus Professors, professional librarians, LTAs, ILTAs, and post-doctoral fellows. Affiliated members are encouraged to participate in the governance of the SJRI.
- Research Associates: Open to anyone eligible to be an affiliated member (see above), Brock-based visiting scholars and adjunct professors who are working on projects with a social justice focus.
- Participating Members: Open to anyone inside or outside of Brock who wishes to have a connection with SJRI, but who is not an affiliated member or research associate.
Privileges and Responsibilities of Membership
- Affiliates may serve as principal applicants to the SJRI Grants Program and are encouraged to participate in the governance of the SJRI, attend FSC meetings (without a vote), and attend semi-annual general meetings (with a vote) where they are responsible for voting on membership and governance motions. Their research and external funding ‘outputs’ may be disseminated by SJRI and included in annual reporting.
- Research Associates may not be the principal applicants to the SJRI Grants Program, but they can apply as co-applicants. They may be involved in organizing SJRI events and can attend SJRI meetings (without a vote). They cannot join as a member of the FSC. Their research activities connected to SJRI may be included disseminated by SJRI and included in annual reporting.
- Participating members have a less formal relationship to the SJRI and thus limited rights and responsibilities: they cannot be main applicants to the SJRI Grants Program, but can be co-investigators; the can be involved in co-organizing SJRI events and may attend SJRI-sponsored workshops and, but may not attend SJRI business meetings.
Processes for Membership
- Affiliated members:
- Applicants must submit a one-to-two page statement of intent outlining the relevance of their research to social justice and their planned contribution to SJRI, along with an up-to-date CV. The FSC will review all applications and recommend affiliation or not. Final voting on membership will take place by affiliated members at a semi-annual general meeting.
- Affiliated members will be asked to re-affirm their affiliation with the SJRI every five years.
- Members of the SJRI may resign their membership through a letter to the Director.
- Applicants must submit a one-to-two page statement of intent outlining the relevance of their research to social justice and their planned contribution to SJRI, along with an up-to-date CV. The FSC will review all applications and recommend affiliation or not. Final voting on membership will take place by affiliated members at a semi-annual general meeting.
- Research Associates:
- Applicants submit a CV together with a short (1 page maximum) letter indicating why they would like to be a Research Associate, why their research program is a good fit with SJRI’s vision, and how they hope to contribute to the SJRI community and research culture. Applications will be voted on by the FSC.
- The tenure of the appointment will normally be for the duration of the applicant’s appointment (or visit) to Brock.
- If a Research Associates would like to retain the title once they leave Brock, this will be addressed on a case-by-case basis, assessing the benefits to SJRI of retaining this connection.
- The tenure of the appointment will normally be for the duration of the applicant’s appointment (or visit) to Brock.
- Applicants submit a CV together with a short (1 page maximum) letter indicating why they would like to be a Research Associate, why their research program is a good fit with SJRI’s vision, and how they hope to contribute to the SJRI community and research culture. Applications will be voted on by the FSC.
- Participating members:
- Prospective participating members are welcome to sign-up to receive information about our activities (e.g., newsletters), invitations to events, and gain the potential to collaborate with a vibrant community of social justice researchers, activists, and community leaders.
- Anyone actively involved in organizing SJRI events is considered to be a participating member.
- In extraordinary circumstances, participating members can have their status rescinded by a two-thirds majority vote of the FSC.