Dear colleagues,
The Division of STS at Chalmers, Gothenburg will hire a 2-year postdoc in Social Studies of Science and Technology, with a specialisation in gender and medical technologies. Deadline December 1st. Applicants are given the opportunity to design their own research plan within the specialisation of gender and medical technologies. Example of areas might be gender, biomedical technologies and the body; gendered dimensions of medical treatments and medical engineering; the consequences of introducing and/or using gender-specific medical technologies in healthcare. An orientation towards ethnographic research methods is encouraged. Relevant theoretical perspectives might be, for example, feminist technoscience studies, intersectionality and posthumanism.
For further info, follow this link: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=10937&rmlang=UK
Also note that there is a fully funded PhD position within the same area already announced: https://www.chalmers.se/en/about-chalmers/Working-at-Chalmers/Vacancies/Pages/default.aspx?rmpage=job&rmjob=10896&rmlang=UK. Deadline November 1st.
Best wishes,
Lisa
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Lisa Lindén
Docent/Associate Professor in Gender and Technology
Division of Science, Technology and Society (STS), Chalmers University of Technology
Recent publication:
The needle pricking and two modes of 'doing good' in the Swedish school-based HPV vaccination programme in Sociology of Health & Illness (with Ylva Odenbring)