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Lioba Hirsch is a lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh, with a focus on interdisciplinary qualitative archival research. Her research interests center on antiblackness, colonialism, global health, and domestic health—particularly regarding the historical ethnographic methods in West Africa, specifically Sierra Leone. She holds a PhD in Geography from University College London. She has previously worked as a research fellow at the Centre for the History of Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, studying the institution's colonial history. In 2021, she was awarded a Wellcome Trust Research Fellowship for her project 'Care, Infrastructure and Antiblackness: Making Biomedicine in Sierra Leonean Hospitals', which runs from 2021 to 2024. Before her current position, she worked as a lecturer in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Liverpool from 2021 to 2023. Lioba also has experience contributing to institutional diversity, equity, and inclusion processes, drawing from her background as a development worker in Zambia from 2013-2015.
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