Postdoctoral position on health care plastics, waste, and activism in the Arctic Full-time

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

The postdoctoral research fellow will be employed by the Institute of Health and Society (Helsam) at the University of Oslo. Academic staff are formally employed by the Institute but have their primary workplace and disciplinary home within one of its departments. The Postdoctoral fellow will be based at the Section for Medical Humanities, one of three sections in the Department of Community Medicine and Global Health. The department is a dynamic, internationally oriented environment that brings together researchers from medicine, the social sciences, and the humanities. Its research spans global health, medical anthropology, epidemiology, and medical history, fostering a collegial and creative academic culture. In the Section for Medical Humanities, anthropologists and historians work together to investigate the cultural, historical, and social dimensions of health and medicine — from everyday experiences of illness to the ways medical knowledge, technologies, and policies shape societies.

A career plan shall be developed for the Postdoctoral Fellow, specifying the competencies the Postdoctoral Fellow should acquire. UiO is responsible for following up on the career plan and ensuring that the Postdoctoral Fellow has access to career guidance throughout the postdoctoral term.

The duration of appointment is 3 years. Other career-promoting work will consist of 10 % which is devoted to required duties