PhD Researcher in Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Culture and Constitutional Reform Leiden University in Netherlands

PhD opportunity in Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden. This doctoral position is part of the MINARET project and focuses on Islamic ethics, Islamic legal culture, governance reform, and administrative reform in Central Asia , with empirical work in Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan . The project asks how religiously informed governance practices and legal strategies may affect accountability, public trust, institutional effectiveness, and political legitimation. The successful candidate will be...

Wageningen University & Research is advertising a fully funded PhD position on Militarization of Societal Resilience in the Netherlands. The project sits in the chair Sociology of Development and Change and examines how Dutch resilience policies, crisis planning, civil-military relations, and military expansion may contribute to militarization and militarism. The PhD will combine a literature review, analysis of Dutch policy documents, and qualitative empirical research on the implementation of ...

PhD opportunity in Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden. This doctoral position is part of the MINARET Doctoral Network and focuses on women’s legal agency in post-imperial Islamic legal cultures across Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa , with specific empirical attention to Tunisia, Lebanon, and Uzbekistan . The project examines how women use Islamic and secular legal frameworks to claim rights, challenge discrimination, and expand access to justice. The successful candidat...

PhD opportunity in Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden. The project is titled Securitisation of Religion in Hybrid Regimes and focuses on post-imperial Islamic legal cultures, with empirical attention to Uzbekistan and Egypt. The doctoral candidate will study how governments mobilise religious narratives to justify security policies and governance strategies, and how religion becomes embedded in state security frameworks. Research environment and supervision: The successful candidate wil...

PhD position in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, within the HORIZON MSCA Doctoral Network DIViNE (Democratic Institutions and Violence Network in Europe). The project focuses on democratization , political violence , governance , and policy studies . The selected PhD candidate will work on how political violence persists in democracies, with a project examining transitions, rent-seeking incentives, decentralization bargains, and relationships between national ...