5 (!) five year jobs here in Edinburgh.
Please forward generously! Thanks, Lukas
(delighted Robin)
Medicine without Doctors is a six-year Wellcome-funded project exploring the changing authority of medical practices through four case studies: LGBTQ+ health activism, artificial intelligence, abortion care and the physician associate. The project is underpinned by two theoretical pillars: the sociology of care and the philosophy of voice. To do this work, the project brings together a multidisciplinary and sector-spanning team of investigators, from philosophy, socio-legal studies, STS, history, sociology and design, with the aim of creating new, interdisciplinary knowledge. In this project, we are also excited to develop and draw on play methodologies collaboratively. For more information, see our websitehttps://www.medicinewithoutdoctors.org/
We are pleased to announce that we are recruiting five postdoctoral fellows to work on Medicine without Doctors. Each post will be attached to a specific case study on the project. We are looking for applicants to bring their research interests in our case study areas, along with relevant disciplinary experience and an interest in (or curiosity about!) Play to join the team. As a team, we are particularly keen to incorporate concerns of health and social inequalities, the perspectives of marginalised communities and a conceptual focus on care (what is care?) and voice (whose voices are heard?).
These five-year posts will be based across the University of Edinburgh and start in April 2026.
The five posts include:
-
Postdoctoral Fellow working on Abortion Care, based in Law and working with Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra (she/her)
-
Postdoctoral Fellow working on Physician Associates, based in STIS and working with Professor Lukas Englemann (he/him)
-
Postdoctoral Fellow working on socio-legal elements of AI, based in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society and working with Dr Nayha Sethi (she/her)
-
Postdoctoral Fellow working on AI and Physician Associates, based in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, working with Dr Nayha Sethi (she/her) and Professor Lukas Engelmann (he/him)
- Postdoctoral Fellow working on LGBTQ+ Health activism, based in the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, working with Dr Ingrid Young (she/her) & Dr Will Nutland (he/him) (The Love Tank).
While each of the roles allow you to bring your own interests and focus and we ask that you outline these in your cover letter, posts 2 –5 ask that you provide a brief, 1-page research proposal. This proposal should indicate the broad area you would like to explore as a starting point for this post, and include indicative research questions, methods, and relevant references.
The deadline for applications is 2 October 2025. Please apply using the University of Edinburgh online system. You will need to apply separately for each post. For any questions regarding the particulars of each post, please contact the relevant team member as indicated on the job advert.
We expect shortlisting to take place by the end of October, and interviews to take place in the first two weeks of December.
We welcome your interest in these posts!
Dr Ingrid Young
Reader, Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society
School of Population Health Sciences, Usher Institute
College of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine, University of Edinburgh
Personal Pronouns: she/her
https://ed.ac.uk/profile/ingridyoung
Current Projects:
Doing Disability Futures
Medicine without Doctors
The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336. Is e buidheann carthannais a th’ ann an Oilthigh Dhùn Èideann, clàraichte an Alba, àireamh clàraidh SC005336.
Professor Robin Williams
Director, Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation
Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Subject Group,
School of Social and Political Sciences
The University of Edinburgh
Old Surgeon's Hall
Edinburgh EH1 1LZ
Tel: +44 131 650 6387
Mobile: 07925-372184
email: R.Williams@ed.ac.uk
http://www.issti.ed.ac.uk/
——————————————————
SOME RECENT PAPERS
Robin Williams, S, Anderson, K Cresswell, M. Kanneløning, H. Mozafar & X. Yang (2024), Domesticating AI in medical diagnosis, Technology in Society
Jee-Hyun Suh & Robin Williams (2023) The complex temporal dynamics of an emerging infrastructure innovation: revisiting the ‘failure’ of the ‘successful’ innovation of Wireless Broadband (WiBro) in South Korea, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management
Gilbert S, Anderson S, Daumer M, Li P, Melvin T, Williams R (2023), Learning From Experience and Finding the Right Balance in the Governance of Artificial Intelligence and Digital Health Technologies J Med Internet Res;25
Neil Pollock, Robin Williams, Luciana D'Adderio (2022), Figuring out IT markets: How and why industry analysts launch, adjust and abandon categories, Information and Organization, 32(1)
Philip Inglesant, Carolyn Ten Holter, Marina Jirotka & Robin Williams (2021): Asleep at the wheel? Responsible Innovation in quantum computing, Technology Analysis & Strategic Management,
Kathrin Cresswell, Aziz Sheikh and Robin Williams (2021) Accelerating health information technology capabilities across England's National Health Service, The Lancet Digital Health
Robin Williams, Kathrin Cresswell et al. (2021) Using Blueprints to promote interorganizational knowledge transfer in digital health initiatives, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association
Kai Wang, Xiaobai Shen & Robin Williams (2020) Sequencing BGI: the evolution of expertise and research organisation in the world’s leading gene sequencing facility, New Genetics and Society
EASST's Eurograd mailing list -- eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net
Archive: https://lists.easst.net/hyperkitty/list/eurograd-easst.net@lists.easst.net/
Edit your delivery settings there using Account dropdown, Mailman settings.
Website: https://easst.net/easst_eurograd/
Meet us on Mastodon: https://assemblag.es/@easst
Or X: https://twitter.com/STSeasst
