Funded PhD studentship looking at social and political reactions to HIV/AIDS

The PhD studentship will fund one 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. Find out more about the project.

Description of duties

The successful applicant will:

• Manage their research activity, as discussed with and approved by the supervisors, and meet deadlines in collaboration with the supervisors.
• Liaise with the supervisors at least once per month.
• Conduct archival research and interviews in more than one country and write a PhD thesis stemming from this research.
• Participate in at least one workshop/conference per year to present single-authored (or co-authored) papers.
• Submit at least one single-authored article from their thesis to an international journal by the end of the studentship.
• Participate in and help organise at least two public workshops per year involving community partners.
• Engage in research-related activities of the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Stirling in general, such as the events of the Queer Studies Reading Group.
• Engage with continuing professional development and the training sessions that the supervisors find necessary, and which may take place online, at the University of Stirling, or elsewhere in Scotland.

Funding and costs

The studentship includes a stipend at UKRI levels for three years, and full tuition fees. For 2024/25 entry, the stipend is £19, 237. The studentship also covers both home and international student fees.

Additional costs may apply to international students (e.g., visa-related ones), which the studentship does not cover.