CAMHRA Anthropology in Action Research Fellow

About the Department:

The Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action (CAMHRA) is a globally oriented and locally connected Centre of excellence for cutting edge anthropological research, education and public engagement in the field of mental health. It works to promote research on critical issues of inequality in access, experience and outcomes of mental health care with benefits for marginalised groups in the London area and cascading effects at national and global levels, and with special emphasis on mental health lived-experience and clinical practice-based research, and coproduced research outputs.

About the Role

The Centre for Anthropology and Mental Health Research in Action wishes to recruit a full-time postdoctoral research fellow, with a specialist interest in engagement, policy and practice-focused research, to join a collaborative mental health ethnographic research programme led by Dr Nikita Simpson and Professor David Mosse (co-director and director) at the Department of Anthropology and Sociology. We seek an excellent candidate trained in anthropology with expertise in the field of mental health and training in participatory ethnographic research with marginalised communities.

The Anthropology in Action Research Fellow will work with CAMHRA to advance its research, engagement, partnership-building, public policy and educational offerings, particularly in the London area. They will co-design and deliver pilot ethnographic projects with CAMHRA partners (community-based organisations, local authorities and NHS mental health service providers) focused on a variety of teams with concerns related to mental health inequality in London. They will work with partners to develop large scale collaborative research bids based on these pilot projects. They will use creative, participatory, and collaborative citizen anthropology methods to embed the expertise of people with lived experience of mental health service use and inequality into all stages of the research process. They will produce academic and non-academic research outputs to disseminate and engage both high level policy partners, and community stakeholders.

They will also work with the directorial team and CAMHRA core team to develop collaborative and comparative research projects with national and global partners, following the above approach.

The post holder will primarily work with CAMHRA’s Policy and Partnerships Officer, Research and Development Officer and Community Engagement Officer.

Closing date: Friday, 18 October, 2024

Interviews to be held: 4 and 5 of November, 2024 (subject to change) 

We are not able to offer sponsorship for candidates who do not currently possess the right to work in the UK. However this role may be eligible to sponsor candidates with a Global Talent Visa Route.

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