"Postdoctoral Research Fellow"

The Law School within The University of Edinburgh is looking for a Postdoctoral Fellow to work on the Wellcome funded Discovery Award Medicine without Doctors.

Medicine without Doctors is a six-year Wellcome-funded project exploring the changing authority of medical practices through four case studies: LGBTQ+ health, artificial intelligence, abortion care and the physician associate. The project is underpinned by two theoretical pillars: the sociology of care and the philosophy of voice. To do this work, the project brings together a multidisciplinary and sector-spanning team of investigators, from philosophy, socio-legal studies, STS, history, sociology and design, with the aim of creating new, inter-disciplinary knowledge. In this project, we are also excited to develop and draw on play methodologies collaboratively.

Alongside the line manager (Dr. Ganguli-Mitra), the postholder will develop a project related to epistemic and structural injustice in abortion care, informed by intersectional and transnational feminist approaches, as well as relevant data from practice, governance and activism in relation to care in abortion. The postholder will assist Dr. Ganguli-Mitra in developing initial ideas and avenues with a view to shaping the planned empirical work related to abortion care and epistemic injustice. This project will also need to align with the Medicine without Doctors wider vision, including a focus on project themes care and voice, and creative methodologies.

Informal enquiries may be directed to Agomoni.Ganguli-Mitra@ed.ac.uk.

More information about Medicine without Doctors can be found here.

This post is fixed-term (for 60 months) and full-time (35 hours per week); however, we are open to flexible working patterns. We are also open to considering reasonable requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.

The salary for this post is at Grade UE07: £41,064 – £48,822 per annum. Appointment will be made within the first 3 points of the scale.

Your skills and attributes for success:

• PhD (or close to submission) in Philosophy, Applied Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Bioethics, Feminist Theory, Law or a relevant discipline.
• Prior research experience e.g., as a research assistant or associate (this can include time spent on the PhD).
• Experience in conducting desk-based research and philosophical analysis in a relevant topic.
• Knowledge of the ethical and legal issues arising in the context of abortion as health care.
• Knowledge of feminist, transnational and intersectional approaches to abortion and reproductive and sexual health.