2 PhD Candidates in a project on informality and health care in post-Soviet spaces at Maastricht University

The two PhD projects will focus on 1) pharmaceutical market and 2) private healthcare provision. Both projects will concern accessibility of quality medicines and health care to patients and accessibility of the Russian market to pharmaceutical companies and healthcare organizations. PhD candidates will trace the multitude of (informal) ways actors use to navigate this uncertain terrain. What kinds of market mechanisms have been created to enable work in this environment with its changing and often unspoken rules and ways of doing things? How do novel health technologies and knowledge become engaged in profit-making? What are the implications for public health, business cultures, political authority, and practices of citizenship?

The appointed PhD candidates are expected to contribute conceptually to the scholarship on informality and on relations between science, politics and markets, and to develop methodological expertise in studying informal phenomena in uncertain situations. PhD candidates will spend considerable time in the field, collecting data and developing ethnographic understanding of the environment. They will also collaborate with the rest of the Marie Curie PhD cohort and project team members to better understand and compare their results. PhD candidates at Maastricht University are also expected to disseminate their results to both academic and non-academic audiences and develop skills in translating research results into useful insights for practitioners.

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2 PhD Candidates in a project on informality and health care in post-Soviet spaces at Maastricht University