Wellcome Trust University Award Competition – Medical Humanities

The University of Liverpool is planning to support a Medical Humanities University Award application to the Wellcome Trust and is seeking expressions of interest from dynamic and enthusiastic candidates with a strong research track record in this area.

We are particularly interested in candidates with expertise in the following areas:

· The Political Economy of Health: the impact of economic and political change on human and environmental health

· Population and Public Health: health demography, health inequalities, the relationship between individual and community health

· A Radical Politics of Health: bioethics, biopolitics, contested health and activism, violence, trauma and slavery

· Space, Place and Time: from ancient histories to imagined futures, the intersection of psychological and cultural factors on health expectations and experiences

Expressions of interest, along with your CV, should be submitted to Professor Sally Sheard ([log in to unmask]) by 5pm on Friday 11^th December 2015.

Further details can be found here: http://www.liv.ac.uk/history/research/

Dr Jenny Rivers

Research and KE Manager (Humanities and Social Sciences)

University of Liverpool

Eleanor Rathbone Building

Bedford Street South

L69 7ZA

Tel: +44 (0) 151 794 1432

@livuniHSS

@drjennyrivers