Project: Endometriosis Voices: Women’s Everyday Lives and Treatment Experiences in Cities of India
Call for Research Assistant: 1 post (On Contract)
Duration: 3 months (November 2025 – January 2026)
About the Project
Over this decade, there has been an increased focus on endometriosis. Endometriosis is a chronic inflammatory, systemic disease that affects the pelvic area and can spread extensively to other body organs and tissues (Taylor et al., 2021). Endometriosis is a public health concern affecting approximately 247 million women worldwide and 42 million women in India. Around 10% of women of reproductive age are affected with endometriosis, which is 1/6th of the Global burden (Dalvi, 2025).
In low-middle-income contexts like India, there is dearth of narrative on endometriosis and the magnitude of problems and barriers women face continue to remain under researched. Accounts of how women navigate endometriosis over the years of delay and how the chronicity of endometriosis impacts the life course from menarche to menopause is very much required to be understood to develop support mechanism and care models for women. The research aims to understand how women confront this over the years, the impact of endometriosis on women’s daily lives, encompassing social, cultural, participation in work, emotional well-being, and employment aspects. It also seeks to explore the support systems they receive or lack, their coping mechanisms both within the household and outside, the healthcare-seeking pathways, and their experiences with these services and their financial impact.
Roles and Responsibilities of the Research Associate
- Work on literature review, collect secondary data related to the topic of research, access the policy documents of governments and International organizations, with the guidance of Principal Researcher and Co Principal Investigator.
- Proficient in Hindi and English
- The candidate should be able to coordinate and supervise all field-related project activities, including communicating with relevant stakeholders and conduct and join qualitative interviews.
- Transcribe the qualitative data of both online and in person interviews, and collate case studies, clean, enter and collate the date with the software packages, analyse with the support of Research Team and prepare the draft report
- Any other work which is connected with the study and completion of the Report.
Requirements:
Candidate should be Ph.D or doing PhD in Public Health with gender specialization / Social Sciences or Gender Studies with health focus. Those who worked on women health and familiar with qualitative fieldwork will be preferred.
They need to work full time for the entire period of appointment at CWDS, Delhi.
Applicants from the Marginalized communities and women are invited to apply.
Remuneration:
Salary is Rs. 37,000/- per month as per ICSSR Rules with actual TDS.
Application Process:
Interested individuals can send their updated CV to bijoya@cwds.ac.in latest by October 28, 2025.
Shortlisted candidates will be invited to for the online interview and selected candidates will be expected to join in the first week of November
Principal Investigator: Dr Bijoya Roy