[Athena] postdoc/PhD position: Communicative barriers between biomedical research and everyday health care in a museum context

[Alexandre KLEIN <Alexandre.Klein AT univ-nancy2.fr>]

Medical Museion, University of Copenhagen, invites applications for a  
3-year PhD/2-year postdoc position in the projekt ?Communicative  
barriers between biomedical research and everyday health care in a  
museum context?:

The increasingly important role of biomedical knowledge and advanced  
medical technologies in Western health systems is a challenge to the  
public communication of and engagement with medicine, especially in  
science, technology and medical museums. This project aims to develop  
the understanding of the means through which esoteric biomedical and  
medico-technological knowledge and practices can be communicated to  
lay people in a museum exhibition context, with special emphasis on  
the use of material and visual cultural practices. The project is  
expected to help construct new physical and web-based exhibition and  
display practices for science, technology and medical museums.

Medical Museion is an integrated research and museum institution that  
focuses on the public engagement with the contemporary biomedical  
sciences. We are especially interested in the interface between  
biomedicine, material and visual studies, museum studies and studies  
of the participatory web. See www.corporeality.net/museion.

The salary level for a PhD-candidate in Denmark is 295,000 DKK  
(approx. ? 39,600/ £ 34,000) p.a.

The salary levels for a postdoc is 370,000 DKK (approx. ? 50,000 / £  
42,000) p.a. upwards (depending on earlier experience).

The position is part of a larger cross-faculty research program  
?Dissemination and Innovation: Health in Everyday Life?, which in turn  
is part of a newly established Center for Healthy Aging at the  
University of Copenhagen (see http://healthyaging.ku.dk).

Applications for the postdoc level shall include CV and publication  
list; short description of background and motivation for choosing this  
research project; project description (max. 5 pages); and copies of  
degrees.

Application for the PhD level shall include a CV; short project  
proposal (max. 2 pages); academic transcripts; and copies of degrees.

Deadline is 1 September, 2009 at 14.00. Applications must be submitted  
electronically and in print (4 copies) to:

Assoc. prof. Lene Otto
Section of Ethnology, the SAXO Institute
Faculty of Humanities, Njalsgade 80
DK-2300 Copenhagen, Denmark
lotto AT hum.ku.dk

Further information can be obtained from Professor Thomas Söderqvist,  
ths AT sund.ku.dk, or +45 2875 3801.

For the full text of the announcement in context, see  
http://healthyaging.ku.dk/vacancies.



Alexandre Klein

ATER Sciences de l'éducation Lille III

Doctorant en philosophie

ACCORPS/ LHSP Archives H. Poincaré

UMR 7117/ CNRS

Nancy Université - Université Nancy 2

http://poincare.univ-nancy2.fr/Presentation/?contentId=3424

Alexandre.Klein AT univ-nancy2.fr