Postdoctoral Researcher Position in Switzerland

Postdoctoralposition as part of the SNSF-funded “Race and Sexual and Reproductive Health charities in postwar Britain from a transnational perspective (1960s-2020)” Eccellenza Project, under the leadership of Prof. Caroline Rusterholz (Department of International History and Politics). The researcher will be affiliated to the Gender Centre at IHEID.

General description of the project

Race& SRH pioneers a new socio-history of sexual and reproductive health (SRH) in postwar Britain that takes race as a lens of analysis. It examines the racialisation of SRH in Britain, examining how SRH charities, have problematised the SRH needs of minoritised individuals and the extent to  which SHR activism has contributed to denouncing the racialisation of SRH. The proposed project offers a new history that will show how SRH was central to the making of postcolonial Britain, and also further our understanding of the way racial inequities in SRH emerged and have been sustained over time.

The project will develop three levels of analysis: the macro level, where international and national SRH policies are made; the meso level, where these laws and policies are translated into norms by SRH workers and activists; and the micro level, which centres on individuals experiences and the constraints and opportunities they face in navigating SRH services. The novelty of this project lies in its sustained focus on the experience of individuals from minoritised communities, not only as objects of SRH policies but as agents of change.

A key strand of the project is the creation of an oral history collection of minoritized individuals’ experiences with Sexual and Reproductive Health charities. The postdoc will conduct interview with minoritized clients who visited sexual and reproductive health charities between 1960-2020.

• Conducting oral history interviews with minoritized clients of SRH charities in Britain
• Developing and implementing a research project as part of strand 3 of the project under the guidance of Prof. Caroline Rusterholz and in partnership with the other team members. If they wish, the recruited person will be encouraged to develop this work into a monograph project
• Scientific publications
• Presenting the research findings at conferences in Switzerland and abroad.
• Co-organising international conferences.
• Regularly participating in the collective activities of the project.
• Developing partnerships internationally as well as with
• Co-organising an exhibition
• This vacancy does not involve any teaching position; however, the recruited person will have the possibility to occasionally participate in class sessions

Organisation

Geneva Graduate Institute

Location

Research field

Deadline

31st October 2022

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