Three PhD candidates in Future Health
Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences – Department of Anthropology
University of Amsterdam
Publication date: 22 March 2018
Closing date: 1 May 2018
Job description
The research project is a multi-sited ethnography of an emergent global health intervention to improve nutrition in the first 1000 days of life. We will study how the intervention is designed and then variously adapted as it is implemented in different sites. The project will draw on and combine research repertoires from various anthropological subfields – ranging from medical anthropology, science ethnography, environmental anthropology, development studies, and political/legal anthropology. The aim is to study the social life of a maternal-child nutrition initiative while adding insight into the question of how anthropologists work with, alongside, and at times in contrast to other fields.
We are seeking candidates to carry out in-country ethnography of the intervention in one of three national sites (Guatemala, the Netherlands, the Philippines).