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Job Opportunity: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Anthropology, Life of Breath project, Durham University)

posted on February 23, 2025

Research Summary: Life of Breath Project

Position Type: Post-Doctoral Research Fellow (Medical Anthropology)
Research Focus: Embodiment, dance, mobility, and lived experience of breathlessness and caregiving
Institution: Durham University, Wellcome Trust-funded interdisciplinary project
Contract Duration: 18 months
Required Qualifications: PhD in Medical Anthropology with strong ethnographic research track record
Application Deadline: 26 January 2018
Inquiry Contacts: Andrew Russell or Jane Macnaughton

Life of Breath, a Wellcome Trust-funded interdisciplinary research project, are looking for a medical anthropologist to join the Durham team on an 18 month contract. They will contribute to our developing research on the relationship between embodiment, dance and mobility with relevance to people living with breathlessness and their carers. Applicants must have a PhD in medical anthropology and have a strong track record in ethnographic research.

The closing date for applications is 26 January 2018.

To find out more, please click here. For an informal conversation about the post please contact Andrew Russell or Jane Macnaughton.

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