📣 Postdoctoral position on Health care plastics, waste, and activism in the Arctic

👉The Institute of Health and Society (Helsam) at the University of Oslo is recruiting 1 Postdoctoral Fellow (SKO 1352) with a PhD in either social science or the humanities, to a project on plastics in healthcare.

👉In this postdoc position, you will join an interdisciplinary and multinational team of researchers in the Wellcome Trust-funded Discovery Grant project 'After the Single Use: Rethinking Medical Devices for Reuse, Resilience and Renewal'.This is a five-year anthropological and historical research project examining the history, circulation, and discard of single-use plastics in global healthcare, with the aim of understanding how and why we came to naturalise and normalize disposability in healthcare and exploring ways to collaborate to reduce it.

👉The project involves research teams in 8 different countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, and the US. This postdoc position will be part of the Norwegian team, and focus on healthcare plastics and waste in Sámi indigenous territories.

👉The appointment is a full-time position for a period of three years.

👉 More information about the job can be found here.

‼️ Deadline for application: 15 March 2026.