PhD in Medical Humanities

The Institute for Health and Society is recruiting 1 PhD position to do research on the history of plastics in healthcare./nYou will join an interdisciplinary and multinational team of researchers in the Wellcome Trust-funded Discovery Grant project ‘After the Single Use: Rethinking Medical Devices for Reuse, Resilience and Renewal’./nIt is a five-year anthropological and historical research project examining the history, circulation and discard of single-use plastics in global healthcare with the aim to understand how and why we came to naturalize and normalize disposability in healthcare and ways to collaborate to reduce it./nThe project involves research teams in 8 different countries and this PhD position will be part of the Norwegian team focusing on the history of healthcare plastics. The PhD-fellow will be employed by the Institute of Health and Society (Helsam) at the University of Oslo and based at the Section for Medical Humanities in the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health./nThe appointment is a fulltime position for a period of three years, with possible extension up to four years depending on competence and teaching needs.