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Poster-AnthSRHRFuturesConf2024

15/01/2024

We are pleased to announce that next summer, 3-5 July, we will be hosting a transdisciplinary conference on sexual reproduction and health rights (SRHR) at the University of Amsterdam, through the anthropology department. We welcome traditional paper and panel proposals as well as workshops or experimental formats.

Sociocultural Anthropology Tenure-track Appointment in Black Diasporas

12/12/2023

The Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia seeks to recruit an outstanding faculty member as part of a University-wide Black Faculty Cohort Hiring Initiative to recruit up to 23 Black scholars over the next four years. We invite applications from qualified candidates for a full-time, tenure-track appointment...

02/11/2023

Working with people to reduce health risks from toxic exposure An interdisciplinary team of researchers from four South African universities are looking for a highly skilled postdoctoral candidate to join our research project titled “Health impacts on children living near an accidental release of pesticides near Durban, South Africa”. This...

Durham University’s Institute for Medical Humanities (IMH) awarded with the Wellcome Discovery Research Platform Award

09/05/2023

Led by Angela Woods (Director) and Ben Alderson-Day (Co-director), the Discovery Research Platform for Medical Humanities (DRP-MH) will tackle intellectual and practical barriers – of diversity, connection, risk, evidence and scale – faced in medical humanities research. This is the largest grant made by Wellcome for humanities research and recognises...