INTERACT Trainee Program

Join the team! INTERACT is looking for motivated, curious, and collaborative students at the graduate or postdoctoral level. Each INTERACT trainee is mentored and supervised by an INTERACT investigator, embedded into a local team and affiliated to an expert team. Students collectively host a national working group, supported by investigators and staff.

Becoming an INTERACT trainee means benefiting from

Collaboration and mentorship
Leadership opportunities
Conference and publishing support
Meetings and presentations specifically for trainees
Networking

Research Areas

Transportation Mode Detection
Qualitative Research
Quantitative Urban Geography
Social Inequalities of Health
Population Health Intervention Research
Spatial Analysis
City and Social Participation
Environments and Physical Activity
Quality of life and Well-being

INTERACT supports

Master’s or PhD students
Postdoctoral Trainees
Task-based mandates (e.g., performing a literature review, writing a paper, organizing an event).

It is expected that students will also submit applications for funding to external organizations (CIHR, NSERC, SSHRC, FRQS).

How to apply

Identify an INTERACT mentor
Complete the application form
Send the completed form, your transcripts, and your CV to your potential INTERACT mentor as well as the national research coordinator.

The selection of candidates is based on academic achievement, originality of the project, consistency with INTERACT objectives, and publication potential. Once your application is accepted, mentors will support you in developing your external funding application (CIHR, FRSQ).

Download the form