Radboud University’s Faculty of Social Sciences in Nijmegen, Netherlands, is offering a fully funded PhD position as part of the NWO-funded WECARE project, titled “Women building cities: Overcoming violence and transforming the city with communities of care.” This research opportunity is situated within the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies and focuses on how women in peripheral Latin American communities create safer, more sustainable, and democratic urban spaces through grassr...

Radboud University in Nijmegen, Netherlands, is offering a fully funded PhD position in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies. The project, titled 'Women Building Cities,' is part of the NWO-funded WECARE initiative and focuses on how women in peripheral communities in Latin America transform their urban environments to become more liveable, sustainable, safe, and democratic. The research will use qualitative, participatory, and co-production methodologies to explore grassroots ...

The University of Amsterdam is seeking two postdoctoral researchers to join its Research Priority Area AI & Politics. These positions focus on the broad theme of how artificial intelligence is transforming societies and the reciprocal influence between politics and AI. One postdoc will be hosted at ASCOR (Communication Science) and the other at AISSR (Sociology/Geography), both within the University of Amsterdam. Supervisors and collaborators include Jaron Harambam (Assistant Professor of Media,...

Utrecht University is offering a PhD position on the Delta Climate Center (DCC)-funded project ‘Delta Values’, focusing on the intersection of climate adaptation, human-landscape interaction, and social sciences. The project is based in Zeeland, a region with a rich history of living with environmental hazards such as floods and droughts, now facing increased risks due to climate change, sea level rise, and salinisation. The research aims to understand how residents of Zeeland have historically ...

Radboud University’s Faculty of Social Sciences in the Netherlands is offering a fully funded PhD position focused on AI-enabled decision-making and the experience of empowerment. The position is part of the Behavioural Science Institute and the Work, Health and Performance Group, and is embedded in the large-scale, NWO-funded DECIDE project, which brings together 10 Dutch universities and numerous societal partners to develop transparent, citizen-empowering AI systems. The research will explore...

The University of Twente invites applications for a fully funded PhD position as part of the JUST ART project, focusing on 'ReStor(y)ing (Un)just Land-Water Relationships Through Art-activism.' This interdisciplinary research opportunity aims to develop a 'rurban' lens to examine rural-urban (dis)connections in land-water relationships, with case studies in regions such as Twente and Aruba, both of which have experienced water scarcity. The project leverages environmental art-activism to 're-sto...

The Faculty of Cultural Sciences at Open Universiteit is seeking applications for a Professor position specializing in cultural studies, media studies, heritage studies, sociology, or cultural anthropology. The role focuses on addressing contemporary societal challenges from a cultural studies perspective and requires a strong research profile in relevant fields such as modern and contemporary history, media studies, heritage studies, and cultural sociology. The successful candidate will contrib...

The University of Twente is offering two fully funded PhD positions within the Knowledge, Transformation, and Society (KiTeS) section, focusing on climate justice through artistic research. These positions are part of the NWA-ORC (Dutch Research Council) project "JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research," a six-year initiative spanning the Caribbean and European parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The project brings together academics, artists, and soc...

The University of Amsterdam’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is offering three full-time PhD positions in Anthropology, focusing on the social life of sexuality. The project, led by Professor Rachel Spronk at the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), investigates erotic practices, cultural formations, and the unruliness of sexuality through ethnographic research. The research centers on individuals whose sexual identities do not fit neatly into established categori...