The visiting fellowship programme provides opportunities for both junior and senior researchers (including researchers on sabbatical or writing retreat) to spend between one to two months at the vibrant interdisciplinary research environment of our Department of Thematic Studies, Tema T - Technology and Social Change. While ample time is given to pursuing your own research or writing, we expect visiting fellows to participate in our weekly seminars and engage with researchers at Tema T.
The visiting fellowship programme has two tracks: Urban and Regional Climate Transition and Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities and Bioethics.
Urban and Regional Climate Transition
Dealing with the ongoing climate crisis requires transformative changes in the way we live, work and produce, but also how we plan, govern and develop cities and regions. We are interested in research fellows working with such questions in a variety of interdisciplinary perspectives. Some examples of fields of interests are:
- the role of urban and regional planning in sustainability transitions; new tools and approaches for strategic and transformative planning
- social transformation and the role of knowledge and politics
- the governance of socio-technical change; building capacities for transformation
- the role of social movements, grassroots innovations or energy communities
- new instruments and strategies for urban transformative change - socio-technical experiments, system demonstrators, reflexive monitoring and evaluation, mission-oriented innovation policies
- critical analysis of the politics of transition; conflict, controversy and friction in transition processes; questions of justice, equality, democracy and marginalisation in transitions.
Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities and Bioethics
Interdisciplinary medical humanities and bioethics, broadly construed, study health challenges and medical practices, experiences of illness and health, and the entanglement and co-formation of, for example, technoscientific innovations, societal assumptions, discourses and norms about bodies and illnesses, and processes of subject formation. We invite research fellows working with such questions from a variety of perspectives.
Examples of fields of interests are:
- Global health challenges;
- Interdisciplinary research across the humanities, the social sciences, and biomedicine;
- Interdisciplinary research in the medical humanities (including the social sciences), in bioethics or across medical humanities and bioethics;
- Critical analysis of knowledge production in health care practices and policy work;
- Creative research methods and art-research collaborations;
- Intersectional and gender approaches to contested illnesses;
- Medical humanities (including social sciences) or bioethical analyses of conditions that more commonly affect or are perceived to affect women;
- Medical humanities (including social sciences) or bioethical analyses of recovery, resilience, and health.
Some of the fellowships within the track Interdisciplinary Medical Humanities and Bioethics will be part of the research project “Biomedicine, Clinical Knowledge, and the Humanities in Collaboration: A Novel Epistemology for Radically Interdisciplinary Health Research and Policy-Work on Post-Covid-19 Syndrome,” funded by the Swedish Research Council (no 2021-01245). A description of this project is available at Epistemology and post-Covid. If you apply for such a fellowship, please indicate which subproject(s) within this project that your research connects to. For these fellowships, visiting fellows will be expected to also take part in activities at the Centre for Medical Humanities and Bioethics.