‘Waiting Times’ Wellcome Trust funded PhD Studentship available

‘Waiting Times’ Wellcome Trust funded PhD Studentship

The Department of Psychosocial Studies has announced a fully-funded three-year doctoral studentship to work on ‘Waiting Times’. The project will be supervised by Dr. Lisa Baraitser and will begin in Autumn 2018.

About this ‘Waiting Times’ project

‘Waiting Times’ is funded by a Wellcome Trust Collaborative Research Award held by Dr. Lisa Baraitser (Birkbeck) and Professor Laura Salisbury (University of Exeter). Its remit is to investigate the relation between time and healthcare in the modern period. Spanning both Medical Humanities and Social Sciences, the project brings together and interdisciplinary team of eight researchers, to investigate waiting as a cultural and psychosocial concept, and an embodied and historical experience, in order to understand the temporalities of healthcare in the current climate of ‘crisis’ in the health service.

Under supervision, the successful candidate will devise and undertake a qualitative investigation of ‘watchful waiting’ as used by general practitioners as a practice of care. Data collection will take place across two GP practices in Hackney, London and Silverton, Devon.

Information for appLicants

Applications will be considered from candidates with an interest in qualitative research in health and social contexts, where an interest in issues of time and temporality can be demonstrated. All academic disciplines/backgrounds are eligible.

The studentship will consist of a fee waiver up to the value of the full-time home/EU rate for MPhil/PhD degrees, plus a studentship stipend based on current Wellcome Trust rates.

How to apply

To apply, prospective students are strongly advised to make informal contact with Dr. Lisa Baraitser (l.baraitser@bbk.ac.uk) prior to the deadline.

They should then send the completed Wellcome Studentship Application Form to l.baraitser@bbk.ac.uk with an expression of interest (no more than 1000 words) and a CV. The successful candidate will then be asked to apply for a full-time place on the MPhil/PhD in the Department of Psychosocial Studies.

  • Deadline for applications: February 12th, 2018
  • Interview date: Tuesday 27th February 2018
Further information

Further information about the Waiting Times project are available here.

Author: ubcg56b

Graduate Research School Manager

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