PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Anthropology in Netherlands

The Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden University is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher in Palaeolithic Archaeology to join the ERC-funded HOME: Palaeolithic Shelters in East-Central Europe project, led by Dr Wei Chu . The postdoctoral researcher will be based in the Department of World Archaeology and will work on the identification and investigation of Palaeolithic shelters in the Carpathian region . The project focuses on how and why Palaeolithic groups used sheltered locations and how these ...

Eindhoven University of Technology is inviting applications for a PhD project on worker-augmenting technology implementation within the multidisciplinary NWA-project AUGMENT. The research asks how workers can shape the AI and robotic systems they use so that technology supports, rather than replaces, human work. Embedded in the Human Performance Management group of the School of Industrial Engineering, the project connects work and organizational psychology, work design, human-technology interac...

This postdoc at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) focuses on developing AI-enabled robotic systems for responsible human-robot collaboration in the EU-funded OPERA project. The work addresses how autonomous robots in human-centered environments can move beyond immediate sensor response to estimate uncertainty, adapt to human preferences and values, explain their decisions, and act safely and reliably in changing conditions. The project investigates meaningful human control in human-robot...

The PhD researcher will join the Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society at Leiden University as part of the Minaret Project , an interdisciplinary and transnational research initiative on the links between law, religion, and governance in post-imperial Muslim-majority societies. The project brings together multiple universities and PhD researchers and is organized around comparative work packages and subprojects. This position is attached to the subproject “Neo-Imperialism and...

Tilburg University’s School of Social and Behavioral Sciences is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join Matti Vuorre’s research group in the Department of Social Psychology. The project is funded by a European Research Council Starting Grant and focuses on a timely question in contemporary psychological science: how human attention relates to digital technology use. The research examines whether digital technologies, and the ways people use them, shape attention; whether differences in att...

The Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome (KNIR) offers funded research stays in Rome for students and early-career researchers whose projects benefit from access to the city’s libraries, archives, museums, and broader scholarly environment. The stay is designed to support work connected to Italian culture, history, and archaeology, with accommodation inside the institute and access to its academic life. Selected participants stay in KNIR for either 7 or 10 weeks depending on the category of appli...

The ISS Hardship Fund supports admitted students to the one-year MA in Development Studies at the International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague, part of Erasmus University Rotterdam . It is designed as tuition support for students who need help covering the cost of study. The award is applied directly as a discount toward tuition fees rather than paid out in cash, with the exact value depending on the tuition level. The fund is intended for students who are studying Development Studies ...

This PhD project at Eindhoven University of Technology focuses on using data science, artificial intelligence, and advanced analytics to understand and improve how housing conditions affect children’s health and development. The research asks how inadequate insulation, heating, and ventilation during pregnancy and early childhood shape health outcomes, which housing upgrades offer the greatest benefits, and how behavioural modelling and AI can support healthier, more equitable homes. The success...

This PhD project explores how workers can shape the AI and robotic systems they use so that technology supports rather than replaces human work. The research sits within the NWA project AUGMENT , which focuses on worker-augmenting technology implementation across different organizations and job contexts. You will study how technologies are selected, introduced, and adapted in everyday work, and how decision opportunities for workers can be designed so they improve job quality, well-being, and pe...