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Leiden University’s Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI) is recruiting a PhD Researcher for the Minaret Project, a HORIZON Unit Grant-funded interdisciplinary and transnational research initiative on the interconnection between law, religion, governance, constitutional reform, and post-imperial Islamic legal culture . The advertised PhD project is titled “A Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Culture: Insights from Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and ...

Leiden University is recruiting 2 PhD candidates for the project Cocreating Research to Improve Science for Policy (CRISP) , a funded research collaboration under the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). The positions are based at the Institute of Public Administration , Faculty of Governance and Global Affairs, in The Hague. CRISP investigates how research evidence can better support policymaking by strengthening collaboration between researchers and policy actors. The project is embedded in a larger c...

Funded PhD position at the University of Alberta exploring the social and political implications of the consolidation, decline, death, and possible rebirth of local newspapers in rural communities in Canada and the United States . The project is supervised by Clark Banack . It sits at the intersection of Political Science , Media Studies , Communication Studies , Sociology , and Journalism , with a strong focus on local news ecosystems, rural public life, and the role of newspapers in democratic...

This PhD project is part of the NWA-funded CRISP consortium, which brings together knowledge institutions and ministries to improve the connection between research and public policy. The doctoral researcher will work on the subproject Policy Lab Justice and Security: Intermediary between Knowledge and Sanction Policy at the Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Leiden University. The project asks what kinds of knowledge policymakers need in order to work evidence-based in th...

Wageningen University & Research is advertising a Postdoc in Governance and Sustainability Transitions in Farming Systems at the Animal Production Systems group . The project focuses on the governance of transitions toward more sustainable and regenerative farming systems, with particular attention to livestock farming systems , public-private governance , certification schemes, private standards, policy incentives, sustainability indicators, and the perceptions of those affected by sustainabili...