A post-doctoral fellow is a 1-3 year research position that enables a PhD graduate to continue their training as a researcher and gain skills and experience that will prepare them for their academic career.
The Sobey Post-Doctoral Fellows program was established to nurture, promote and advance highly innovative and creative multidisciplinary research at the Sobey School of Business. This program attracts early career talent and raises awareness of Canadian academic talent in emerging business disciplines, such as digital media marketing, business data analytics, crowdfunding and micro finance, the transformational role of crypto currencies, sustainable development, social entrepreneurship and managing technological innovation.Sobey Post-Doctoral Fellows (Postdocs) past and present are members of the Sobey Scholars Network.
Dr. Wenyao Hu and Dr. Dieudonné Tamfutu Munsi are the current Sobey School of Business Sobey Postdoctoral Scholars in Emerging Disciplines.
The Sobey Professorships were established to attract and retain the best faculty in the Sobey School of Business and to realize the long-term strategic objective of ensuring that the School can achieve and sustain a position as one of the leading business schools in Canada.
The program is part of the broader initiative to grow the research and scholarship impact of the Sobey School and is funded from the historic gift received by the school from the Sobey Family, Sobey Foundation and Sobeys Inc. in 2019.
The following Sobey School of Business faculty members have been awarded the first Sobey Professorships for a five-year term: