Beth Vale –
writer. researcher. strategist.
co-creator.
Beth Vale is a South African storyteller, anthropologist, and writer based in Vancouver. Her work lives at the intersections of society and the body, oriented towards more just care ecologies. Beth’s publications span academic journals, exhibition catalogues, edited volumes, and popular press; and reflect a multiplicity of genres including narrative non-fiction, memoir, poetry, speculative fiction, and policy writing. Currently, she is focused on research, writing, and artmaking to unmask the racial capitalist patterning of death and disease and connect our ecological and epidemiological futures.
Education & Academic Experience
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2016-2017 Postdoctoral Fellow, History Workshop, University of the Witwatersrand
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2012-2015 DPhil, Evidence-based Social Intervention University of Oxford
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2011-2012 — MA, Sociology, University of Cape Town
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2006-2010 – BA Hons, Philosophy & Politics, Rhodes University
Work Experience
Full-Time
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2025-2026 Senior Strategist, Patient & HCP Experience, FSi (Toronto)
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2024-2025 Leader, Patient Experience & Community Engagement, BC Mental Health & Substance Use (Vancouver)
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2022-2024 Senior Consultant & Co-Director, Percept Transdisciplinary Advisory (Johannesburg-Vancouver)
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2020-2022 Lecturer, Anthropology, University of the Witwatersrand (Johannesburg)
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2017-2018 Humanities Researcher, Mapungubwe Institute for Strategic Reflection (Johannesburg)
Contact Me
Freelance
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2019 Director State of Dis-ease Program, Johannesburg Institute for Advanced Study
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2018 — 2023 Freelance researcher, writer, strategic adviser for DG Murray Trust coalition of organisations
Awards
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2019 — Academic & Non-Fiction Authors Association of South Africa Grantee
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2013 – Mail & Guardian Top 200 Young South Africans
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2012— Rhodes Scholarship
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2010 — Mandela-Rhodes Scholarship