PhD Position: Governance of Complex Urban Transformations Erasmus University Rotterdam in Netherlands

This postdoctoral position at the University of Twente is part of DESIGN4AGES , an international consortium studying how intergenerational co-design can shape inclusive public spaces and climate-adaptive neighbourhood environments. The project develops and tests a structured methodology for creating Intergenerational Contact Zones across five European cities, with the Dutch work package led from Enschede. The successful researcher will work within a team of interaction designers whose expertise ...

The Research Group Governance of Crisis at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to contribute to research on EU crisis governance and transboundary disaster and crisis management . The project sits within a multidisciplinary environment in The Hague and connects crisis studies with broader debates in public administration, organization science, sociology, safety science, political science, and research methods. The postdoc w...

This PhD project sits within an NWO-funded study on how organisations can build positive cybersecurity solutions by learning from what already works well. Rather than focusing on failures, the project asks what successful organisations do differently across the individual, team, and organisational levels to prevent cyber incidents or reduce their impact. The advertised PhD position concentrates on the organisational level of that broader research question. The selected candidate will carry out e...

This postdoc position is part of a research project on which skills and competencies public service professionals need to apply the “human touch” in service delivery . The project is carried out at Erasmus University Rotterdam , within the Erasmus School of Social and Behavioural Sciences and the Organisation and Management team. The successful candidate will join a small research team working on a topic at the intersection of public service, organisational practice and social science. The postd...

The University of Amsterdam is advertising a postdoctoral position in Federico Savini’s research group, focused on conflicts around street use and their implications for urban life. The successful researcher will engage with contested uses of urban streets and examine how these conflicts can be addressed to help make cities better places to live. The work is situated within environmental planning, urban institutions, and politics, providing an opportunity to connect research on public space with...