Giada Danesi

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Social Studies of Food

Ethnography

Social Studies of Health and Illness

Digital Health

• 09.2020-, Senior Researcher SNSF in social sciences for the SNSF project “FoodCoach: Societal Implications of Digital Receipt-based Diet Monitoring and Intervention”, University of St. Gallen.
• 09.2015-09.2019, Senior Researcher SNSF in social sciences for the SNSF project “Knowledge Translation through Tool-Supported Practices in Health Care: Production and Use of Self-Management Tools in Chronic Disease. The case of Diabetes”, University of Lausanne (UNIL).
• 09.2018-04.2019, Scientific Collaborator in social sciences (40%) for the project “Breast Cancer Survivorship: what is said, what is lived” (funded by the Ligue Vaudoise Contre le Cancer), at the Service of Liaison Psychiatry (PLI), Lausanne University Hospital.
• 01-10.2014, Postdoctoral Research Assistant for the project “The influence of the food environment and SIMD on food and drink purchased by secondary school pupils beyond the school gate” (funded by the Food Standards Agency in Scotland), Centre for Research in Public Health and Community Care (CRIPACC), Health and Human Sciences Research Institute (HHSRI) and School of Health and Social Work, University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield.
• 12.2008-07.2013, PhD Student, Interdisciplinary Institute of Contemporary Anthropology (IIAC)/Centre Edgar-Morin (CEM), Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris.

• Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH) (2020-)
• Swiss Anthropological Association (SSE), Medical Anthropology Switzerland Commission (2018-)
• European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) (2018-)

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