3-year Doctoral Fellowship on "Globalizing schizophrenia and other severe
mental disorders"

Extended deadline

Cermes3 announces a 3-year full-time doctoral fellowship (2014-2017)
financed through the European Research Council project GLOBHEALTH, "From
international to global: Knowledge and diseases and the post-war
government of health". The PhD is to be defended at EHESS Paris.

This doctoral research should centre on a critical history of the
development of international research on schizophrenia and other severe
mental disorders and the central role of WHO, including but not limited to
the 25-year WHO international research programme on schizophrenia. It may
address the scientific findings and controversies; the relationship of
this research to international public health, epidemiology, psychiatry and
other branches of medicine; the changing nature of expertise. The project
may also focus on more recent history of the incorporation of
schizophrenia into global health through new alliances (e.g. NGOs,
universities, pharmaceutical markets), metrics (e.g. Global Burden of
Disease), and movements for health and human rights. The nature of the
project may be historical, anthropological or sociological. However, it
should focus on local-global exchanges, particularly in outside Europe and
North America. The doctoral project falls into the domain, "Placing mental
health on the world health agenda: the globalization of a refractory
problem", one of four to be examined by the ERC programme GLOBHEALTH.

The PhD project will be located at Cermes3, Villejuif/Paris, but will
involve on-site research in Geneva (WHO) and possibly sites in Africa or
Asia. Supervision will be offered by Jean-Paul Gaudillière (historian)
and
Anne M. Lovell (medical anthropologist).

Applicants should hold a Masters' Degree in anthropology or history, but
other disciplines will be considered. Some background or interest in
mental health, psychiatry, pharmaceuticals or public health is an asset.
Good oral, reading and writing skills in English are required; some
knowledge of French is preferable.

Applicants should include the following in their application:

contact details, including phone number
CV (degrees, educational/training experiences, work history, skills,
honours/awards, publications)
transcripts from university diplomas
letter of motivation
draft project of 5 to 10 pages. Include: subject, materials, methods,
field-site, intended outcomes,
​dissemination and a 3-year timeline for the project.
sample of writing that applicant deems relevant to the project. names
and contact details of two references

⇒ Information on Cermes3 is available through http://www.cermes3.fr.
⇒ Description of the ERC Project is accessible through
http://globhealth.vjf.cnrs.fr.

The complete applications to be sent to gaudilli@vjf.cnrs.fr and
anne.lovell@parisdescartes.fr
Please indicate "Globalizing Schizophrenia - GLOBHEALTH" in the subject
line.
The deadline for applications is September 15th, 2014.

The selection will be completed at the end of September 2014 and the
successful candidate is expected to be employed by the end of October
2014.