Postdoc position in museology, materiality studies and object-based engagement
KU – SUND – MUSEION – Kbh K
We are looking for a highly motivated candidate for a three-year postdoc project commencing 1 August 2024. The position is available via a Carlsberg Semper Ardens Accelerate-funded project called “Health Matters: Complexity and materiality in the medical museum,” conducting historical and museological studies of health complexity (PI: Associate Professor Adam Bencard), at Medical Museion, the University of Copenhagen’s museum for the culture and history of medicine.The project – about Health Matters
Many disease states today are complex, involving the interaction of biological, social, psychological, and economic processes that may be non-linear, adaptive, and have other features of complex systems. This demands new methods and new approaches in health research, but also concerns the public as they are increasingly presented with multi-dimensional science that complicates more linear understandings of health and illness. Health complexity thus challenges both how we understand health – at individual as well as societal levels – and how we might begin to talk about it in ways that are responsive to the underlying complexity.Health Matters takes up this problem by asking: How might we engage publics in health complexity, in ways that remain true to the non-reductionist, non-linear nature of complex systems? Health Matters approaches this problem through a particular medium: The medical museum. The project proposes that medical museums have a set of tools – historical objects, spaces and curatorial expertise – that are uniquely suited to the challenge of discussing health complexity. The central research proposal of Health Matters is that objects and stories from history of medicine through their materiality can facilitate encounters with health complexity that are responsive to the non-linear and entangled nature of health and bodies.Within this larger project frame, the postdoctoral fellow will focus on theories and ideas of materiality and the ways in which objects can facilitate encounters with health complexity. The goal is to develop interesting frameworks that help to elucidate the capacity of objects to both confound, expand and resonate with experiences of health complexity. In this way, the project also aims to contribute to a vital ongoing museologial rethinking of the uses, value and purpose of collections in university museums and beyond.The postdoc will also be responsible for trying out some of these ideas through annual workshops at Medical Museion (designed in collaboration with the PI), in which complexity researchers will be brought together with various stakeholder groups (patient organizations, policy makers, etc.). The outcomes and experiences from these workshops will be used in further work in the group and will also be used to generate a handbook on complexity engagement for health complexity researchers.Place of employment
The postdoc will be based at Medical Museion. The candidate is expected to also contribute to teaching of courses offered by Medical Museion and the Institute for Public Health.Supervision
The principal supervisor will be Associate Professor Adam Bencard. The postdoctoral fellow will also be able to collaborate with and benefit from feedback from researchers at the Copenhagen Center for Health Complexity, a newly established research center at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Public Health.Who are we looking for?
We are looking for a highly motivated and enthusiastic postdoctoral fellow with the following competencies and experience:
About Medical Museion and its research environment
The Medical Museion is a University Medical Museum at the Department of Public Health. It combines an interdisciplinary research group that looks at health and medical sciences in their cultural, historical, and philosophical context. The Center’s scientific research invokes fundamental questions about the relationship between medical science, clinical medicine and human experience; and the Medical Museion’s starting point is that biomedical research is an integral part of culture and history. We produce exhibitions, events, collection projects, and online communication, all informed by both biomedical science and our humanities research program covering philosophy of science, history of science, medical humanities, STS, museology, and anthropology.
Application and Assessment Procedure
Your application including all attachments must be in English and submitted electronically by clicking APPLY NOW below.
Application deadline: 30 April 2024, 23:59 CET
We reserve the right not to consider material received after the deadline, and not to consider applications that do not live up to the above-mentioned requirements.The further process
After the deadline, a number of applicants will be selected for academic assessment by an unbiased expert assessor. You are notified whether your application will be selected for assessment.The assessor will assess the qualifications and experience of the shortlisted applicants with respect to the above mentioned research area, techniques, skills and other requirements. The assessor will conclude whether each applicant is qualified. The assessed applicants will have the opportunity to comment on their assessment. You can read about the recruitment process atQuestions
For specific information about the position, please contact Adam Bencard (adab@sund.ku.dk).General information about PhD study at the Faculty of HEALTH is available at the PhD School’s website: .The University of Copenhagen wishes to reflect the surrounding community and invites all regardless of personal background to apply for the position.Part of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), and among Europe’s top-ranking universities, the University of Copenhagen promotes research and teaching of the highest international standard. Rich in tradition and modern in outlook, the University gives students and staff the opportunity to cultivate their talent in an ambitious and informal environment. An effective organisation – with good working conditions and a collaborative work culture – creates the ideal framework for a successful academic career.
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