11285 - Research Fellow (After the Single Use)
The Opportunity:
You will lead a case study on international governance and regulation of plastics, waste and sustainability in health care, and plan, conduct, analyse, and disseminate primary and secondary historical and ethnographic research.
The Wellcome-funded ‘After the Single Use: Rethinking Medical Devices for Reuse, Resilience and Renewal’ project will study sustainability transitions within the global medical devices industry, with a focus on the social and environmental impacts of single-use and plastic medical devices, and opportunities and challenges for developing re-usable alternatives.
This post is fixed term from January 2025 for a period of 42 months to end no later than August 2029. This post is full-time (35 hours per week). A three-month archival research placement in Geneva, Switzerland is required. Travel internationally for ethnographic fieldwork is also required.
Your skills and attributes for success:
PhD (or equivalent), awarded or submitted prior to application deadline, in social anthropology, history of medicine, science and technology studies or other relevant field (e.g. sociology, geography, history).Demonstrated track record of academic research publication in relevant field.
Experience of designing and carrying out either archival and/or ethnographic research.
Demonstrable knowledge of global issues and politics related to health care waste, sustainability and single-use plastics, and of relevant fields of literature e.g. waste studies/discard studies.
Ability to travel internationally for short-term ethnographic fieldwork, and to carry out a three-month archival research placement in Geneva, Switzerland.