Staff profile

• Anthropology of Autism
• Anthropology of Bodily Substance
• Critical Disability Studies
• Embodiment
• Empathy and Theory of Mind
• Ethnographic Methods
• Human-animal Studies
• Kinship and Relatedness
• Medical Anthropology
• Mental Health
• Multispecies Ethnography
• Situated Biologies

• 2000: Invited Fellowships: Fellow of the Wolfson Institute of Health and Well-Being, Durham University

  Associate Fellow of the Centre for Biomedicine, Self and Society, University of Edinburgh

  Associate Fellow of the Institute for Medical Humanities, Durham University

• 2000: Peer Review:
  • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Social Science and Medicine, Medical Anthropology, Medical Humanities, Medicine Anthropology Theory, Social and Cultural Geography.
• 2000: Member and Coordinator:
  • International Anthropology of Hormones Network (2019 - present)
  • 'Anthropology and Autism: Lived Experience' seminar series (2017 - present)
• 2000: Academic Qualifications:
  • PhD Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh (2019)
  • MRes Social Anthropology, University of Edinburgh.
  • MA Medical Anthroplogy, University of Ediburgh.
  • MA Social and Cultural Anthropology and Psychology, Joint Honours, University of Glasgow.

Chapter in book

• Erikainen, S., Ford, A., Malcolm, R., & Raeder, L. 'Telling Hormonal Stories'. In So Hormonal: Essays About Our Hormones. Monstrous Regiment

Journal Article

• Malcolm, R. (2021). Milk’s Flows: Making and Transmitting Kinship, Health, and Personhood. Medical Humanities, 375-379. https://doi.org/10.1136/medhum-2019-011829
• Malcolm, R. (2021). “There’s No Constant”: Oxytocin, Cortisol, and Balanced Proportionality in Hormonal Models of Autism. Medical Anthropology, 40(4), 375-388. https://doi.org/10.1080/01459740.2021.1894558
• Malcolm, R., Ecks, S., & Pickersgill, M. (2018). ‘It just opens up their world’: autism, empathy, and the therapeutic effects of equine interactions. Anthropology and Medicine, 25(2), 220-234. https://doi.org/10.1080/13648470.2017.1291115

Other (Digital/Visual Media)

• Malcolm, R., Gordon, T., & Slone, M. (in press). "Our Bodies Electric." Theorizing the Contemporary. [[Media unknown]]