PhD studentship, History of social and political reactions to HIV/AIDS
University of Stirling (UK)
Application deadline: 15.3.2025
About the Project
The PhD studentship will fund a project studying social and political reactions to HIV/AIDS. Please suggest your project, tailored to the parameters below. You must analyse at least one of the following themes and subjects:
Themes
- Discourses about the rights of people living with HIV.
- Shifting sexual norms and patterns.
- Policy instruments.
- Protest patterns.
- Mobilities and migration.
- Memories and silences of living with HIV, and emotions surrounding them.
Subjects
- Civil society organisations and activists.
- Policymakers.
- Subjects dealing with health and healthcare, like social workers, nurses, doctors.
- Migrant associations.
- Religious subjects.
- Artists.
- Journalists.
You may address any part of the period from the early 1980s to the present. Your thesis must study one or more locations anywhere in the world, ideally from a transnational and comparative history perspective, and, ideally, covering connections between the Global South and Europe. Your analysis must be intersectional, considering the impact of social class, gender, race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, age and faith on socio-political responses to HIV/AIDS.
The postholder will collaborate with the team led by Dr Nikolaos Papadogiannis, working on the project “HIV/AIDS Campaigning between the Global South and Western Europe since the 1980s”, which is funded by a UKRI Future Leaders Fellowship. For a description of that project, please click here.