Job description

I am employed in a 20 % position. My primary tasks in my position are: to develop research projects, teach PhD students, and supervise both at master and PhD level. 

I am a trained social anthropologist with several years of experience in medical anthropology. My primary research interests and research fields focus on illness experiences (for different patient groups), healthcare-seeking practices and ways of navigating the healthcare system, especially concerning clinical encounters and relationships in the context of the healthcare system and organisation. More recently, this has led to a particular interest in bodily sensations, the anthropology of the senses and the way symptoms and diagnoses are configured, as well as diagnostic pathways for patients with contested diagnoses and healthcare-seeking practices as morally situated. I link this to an interest in health discourses as mediators for both medical practice and the constitution of the patient. My research interests have been realized mainly in projects dealing with patients with medically unexplained symptoms and chronic cancer patients.

I am a professor in medical anthropology at the Department of Public Health Science, Department of General Medicine and the Research Unit for General Practice at the University of Copenhagen. In addition, I hold a a 20% position as professor in medical anthropology at the General Pratice Research Unit, Department of Community Medicine, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Tromsø.

I am scientific coordinator for the network Medical Anthropology At Home, MAAH. The network has a mailing list, which you can sign up for on request, and we organize conferences in Europe every two years. See more about this here: https://ifsv.ku.dk/maah

 

No conflicts of interest