Top Research Jobs in Ottawa

Leads Agility’s media research team and owns the accuracy, organization, freshness, and compliance of its journalist and outlet database. Establishes research standards, verification processes, categorization systems, and data quality metrics; tracks newsroom changes and enriches profiles with outreach intelligence. Partners with Product Development on AI-powered research automation, and collaborates with Customer Success, Sales Enablement, Marketing, and leadership. Hires and develops researchers while supporting client education and journalist data requests.

The tenure-track Canada Research Chair will lead an internationally recognized research program on law and urban governance, teach law, supervise graduate students, secure external funding, build interdisciplinary and community partnerships, and contribute academic service. Candidates must demonstrate exceptional legal scholarship, graduate teaching experience, research funding success, interdisciplinary collaboration, and French-language proficiency, with passive or active English knowledge required for tenure.

Conduct research for a graduate project exploring feminist pedagogies and creative writing. The role requires expertise in feminist research methodology and pedagogy, with 65 total hours of work from November 15 through December 22, 2026. Work is conducted in English and French at the University of Ottawa’s main campus.

Supports an educational program for high school students focused on access to justice and technology in legal services. Responsibilities include drafting a legal scenario for program modules and supporting adoption in schools. The assistant will conduct academic research and writing while collaborating with a supervising law professor and nonprofit partner.

Lead student researcher on a project examining social citizenship and skilled migration. Responsibilities include literature synthesis, EndNote reference management, research ethics, quantitative and qualitative research design, semi-structured interviews, NVivo-assisted analysis, data collection, statistical analysis, project management, and team calibration.

Supports an educational program for high school students focused on access to justice and technology in legal services. Responsibilities include drafting a legal scenario for program modules and supporting adoption in schools. The role requires academic legal research and writing, collaboration with a nonprofit partner, and interest in technology’s impact on the legal system. The position is based at the University of Ottawa and includes 60 hours of work from November 11 through December 31, 2026.

Conduct research on social justice and human rights in Canada; support drafting, prepare footnotes, and complete administrative tasks. The role requires bilingual French-English communication, excellent legal writing in both languages, strong attention to detail, and knowledge of French common law terminology. Experience in legal research, an Equality Law Clinic, or a social justice setting is advantageous.

Conduct research on social justice and human rights in Canada; support drafting and footnote preparation; complete administrative tasks; and apply strong bilingual legal writing skills in English and French. The role requires attention to detail, resourcefulness, passion for social justice, and knowledge of French common-law terminology. Experience in legal research, the Equality Law Clinic, or a social justice setting is preferred.

Conduct research on intergroup relations, identity, and belonging in a Montreal neighborhood. Responsibilities include analyzing survey data, compiling census data, and analyzing interviews with neighborhood residents. The role requires strong quantitative and qualitative research skills and knowledge of literature concerning identity and belonging among minority groups.

Conduct secondary data collection, manage and analyze research data, and participate in project meetings and events for the UnborderED knowledge project, which focuses on equitable access to education and research for people with lived experiences of forced migration in Canada.

Assists research on Russian oppositionists who supported defeat in war from the Russo-Japanese War through the war in Ukraine. Tasks include identifying relevant historical newspaper articles, reviewing contemporary social media and digital materials, conducting additional research, and organizing collected sources for accessibility and analysis. Good Russian-language knowledge is required.

Supports the planning, promotion, setup, delivery, and cleanup of feminist events on and off campus. Responsibilities include food and refreshment setup, accessibility support, ticketing, check-in, registration, event promotion, signage, materials, logistics, and welcoming attendees. The role also shares event information with students, encourages participation, and assists with other event-related tasks as needed.

Conduct 65 hours of psychology research during the Winter 2027 semester in a university research laboratory or facility. Successful applicants will be matched with research lab positions based on their interests and will gain experience relevant to future research employment and graduate applications. Applicants must be eligible undergraduate psychology students meeting specified academic, course, identity, and employment requirements.

Graduate research interns will own end-to-end projects to build customer world models and proactive intelligence: developing representation learning, foundation model, RL/agentic methods, evaluation frameworks, and shipping research into production to improve customer decision-making.

Graduate research interns will own end-to-end projects developing customer world models and proactive intelligence. Work spans representation learning, foundation models, reinforcement learning, agentic decision systems, and evaluation. Tasks include designing methods, running experiments, publishing findings, and potentially shipping models into production to impact customer-facing products.

Supports a SSHRC-funded project on green procurement policies and firm-level innovation. Duties include collecting, entering, cleaning, and analyzing data; producing graphs; assisting with regression analysis; organizing code and raw data; preparing replication packages; and formatting and copy-editing research manuscripts.

Conduct research on China and the Indo-Pacific, including critical minerals value chains and supply chain resilience. Responsibilities include Mandarin and English research, commercial and trade data collection and analysis, academic and policy literature review, field research support, and building and maintaining research databases.

Conduct large-scale data cleaning and merging, perform preliminary empirical analysis, and review code and replication checks for applied microeconomics research. The role requires a PhD student in Economics with an applied microeconomics research focus and proficiency in Python, R, and Stata.

Conduct evidence-based assessments of pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostic tests, and other health technologies, including systematic reviews, meta-analyses, and health technology assessments. Prepare clinical reviews, briefing papers, manuscripts, and recommendations; critically appraise evidence; collaborate with multidisciplinary teams and external experts; present findings to advisory committees; respond to feedback; and support research methods, processes, and special projects.

Conduct an extensive literature review on bail court case processing, complete 50–60 hours of observations at Ottawa Courthouse, and code quantitative and qualitative data on case processing and outcomes. The role requires graduate-level knowledge of Canadian bail courts, prior Ontario bail court observation experience, data collection and coding experience, familiarity with international practices, and proficiency in SPSS or STATA.

Conducts economic research involving coding and data analysis using R, Stata, and oTree; prepares LaTeX materials and performs LLM-assisted text classification. The role is a 130-hour research assistant position under the supervision of an economics professor during the 2027 winter semester. Applicants must hold an MA in economics.

Conduct participant engagement and data collection, perform literature searches and reviews, develop and maintain ethics protocols, manage research data and protocols, conduct dyadic data analyses, and draft manuscripts in English. The research focuses on chronic pelvic pain, patient autonomy, and sexual health.

Build tools and infrastructure for training language and multi-agent models in interactive environments; research and implement advances in language modeling and reinforcement learning; contribute to publications and open-source projects.

Conduct careful web and document research to develop training and benchmarking tasks for frontier AI models. Responsibilities include retrieving and verifying claims, cross-referencing academic and financial sources, tracking original sources, using research-enabled LLM tools, rapidly learning new domains, and clearly communicating reasoning, uncertainty, and findings in written and verbal formats. This is a fully remote, one-month contract requiring at least 15 hours weekly, with an expected average of 20 hours per week.

Produces and promotes digital-first content across YouTube, social media, podcast platforms, and other channels. Responsibilities include creating short-form assets, managing publishing workflows, optimizing metadata and thumbnails, monitoring analytics, conducting A/B tests, coordinating editors, identifying audience opportunities, and translating performance insights into content and format recommendations.