Postdoctoral Research Associate

**Job Description**
This role is for an entry-level postdoctoral research associate on the project ‘The Digital Labour of Covid-19 Volunteerism’, an oral history-driven initiative exploring the politics of digital health work by Covid-19 volunteers in contemporary India, led by Dr Tarangini Sriraman. The project evaluates timely relief responses via digital applications, the influence of gender, caste, and class on volunteers’ access to digital health infrastructures, the legacy of pandemic-driven digital health work, and India’s global claims in digital health and their grassroots impact. The associate will contribute qualitative expertise, conduct interviews, and engage in fieldwork and publication.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Qualitative experience within health activism, health work, or the health policy field
• Oral history or ethnographic skills
• Open to learning Digital Humanities methods (e.g., coding, archiving, data scraping, data visualisation, digital story-telling)
• Training in qualitative research methods (for example, oral history or ethnography)
• Experience conducting fieldwork or archival work using either South Indian or North India languages
• Familiarity with health activism, health history or health policy in the Indian context (for example, field experience in the broad research fields of pandemics, communicable or non-communicable diseases, nutrition, or reproductive health)
• One research publication in Medical Humanities, Medical Social Sciences or Public Health
• Willingness to be part of a collaborative research team
• Experience working with minoritized groups (Desirable)
• Willingness to learn Digital Humanities methods such as (e.g., coding, archiving, data scraping, data visualisation, digital story-telling) (Desirable)
• Willingness to produce both academic and non-academic research outputs (Desirable)

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Ph.D in Humanities or Social Sciences (preferably History, Anthropology, Gender Studies, Politics)
• Ph.D in Public Health

**Experience**
Experience Required:
• Experience conducting fieldwork or archival work using either South Indian or North India languages
• Familiarity with health activism, health history or health policy in the Indian context
• One research publication in Medical Humanities, Medical Social Sciences or Public Health
Other:
• Candidates who have submitted their thesis and are awaiting award of their PhDs will be considered.

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