Dr Roslyn Malcolm

Biography	I joined Durham University’s Anthropology Department as Assistant Professor in 2020 (PhD 2019) after positions at the University of Edinburgh's Social Anthropology department and Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Through three interlocking research areas I seek to understand the stories we tell about selves, bodies and environments, and the role biomedical knowledges play in models of human functioning and flourishing across these scales. The first focuses on autism, neurodivergence, embodiment, disability, empathy, and sensory experience. My forthcoming monograph 'Rhythms That Matter: Autistic Embodiment, Equine Therapy and More-Than-Human Sociality' is currently under review with a university press. I am fascinated by the social lives of hormones. My co-edited book on the topic entitled 'Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary' is now available as part of Rosi Braidotti's Theory in the New Humanities series with Bloomsbury, alongside a recent BioSocieties article. Nonhuman animals are a third focus of my research, including more-than-human sociality and health, with particular emphasis on multispecies communication and animal assisted therapies. I have taught a range of modules on topics across Social Anthropology. Most recently, these include the anthropology of reproduction (Sex, Reproduction and Love) and kinship (Kinship and Religion). In 2020 I designed and have since taught a research-led course on the Anthropology of Hormones. I am accepting PhD students and open to supervising doctoral candidates in the research areas below.
Research Interests	anthropology of autism and neurodivergence disability studies embodiment empathy gender and the body human-animal studies posthumanism social lives of hormones substance and relatedness

Biography

I joined Durham University’s Anthropology Department as Assistant Professor in 2020 (PhD 2019) after positions at the University of Edinburgh's Social Anthropology department and Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society. Through three interlocking research areas I seek to understand the stories we tell about selves, bodies and environments, and the role biomedical knowledges play in models of human functioning and flourishing across these scales.

The first focuses on autism, neurodivergence, embodiment, disability, empathy, and sensory experience. My forthcoming monograph 'Rhythms That Matter: Autistic Embodiment, Equine Therapy and More-Than-Human Sociality' is currently under review with a university press. I am fascinated by the social lives of hormones. My co-edited book on the topic entitled 'Hormonal Theory: A Rebellious Glossary' is now available as part of Rosi Braidotti's Theory in the New Humanities series with Bloomsbury, alongside a recent BioSocieties article. Nonhuman animals are a third focus of my research, including more-than-human sociality and health, with particular emphasis on multispecies communication and animal assisted therapies.

I have taught a range of modules on topics across Social Anthropology. Most recently, these include the anthropology of reproduction (Sex, Reproduction and Love) and kinship (Kinship and Religion). In 2020 I designed and have since taught a research-led course on the Anthropology of Hormones.

I am accepting PhD students and open to supervising doctoral candidates in the research areas below.

Research Interests

anthropology of autism and neurodivergence
disability studies
embodiment
empathy
gender and the body
human-animal studies
posthumanism
social lives of hormones
substance and relatedness