PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in International Relations in Netherlands

This postdoc sits within the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and focuses on executive lawmaking in EU migration law . The project examines how legislative power is delegated to the European Commission in the field of migration and asylum, especially in light of the European Pact on Migration and Asylum adopted in 2024. The successful candidate will contribute to a VIDI project titled “Executive supremacy? Executive lawmaking in migration law” , whic...

This postdoctoral position sits within the SPARKLES project, which explores how floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems on inland waters can be developed in ways that are beneficial for both people and nature. The project connects energy science, ecology and governance to support a nature-positive energy transition, and this role focuses on bringing the project’s different strands together at the landscape scale. The successful researcher will work on integrating existing research outputs, datasets ...

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 PhD project at Erasmus MC is focused on the retention and wellbeing of motivated healthcare professionals. The advertised position sits within the broader effort to understand how to support care workers in a rapidly changing healthcare sector, where rising demand, innovation, new technologies, and high workload all place increasing pressure on staff. The project asks how a learning system can be created for healthcare professionals, teams, policy makers, and hospital leaders in (academic) ...

These two PhD positions are part of the Dutch CO2URAGE project, which explores CO2 utilisation via reactive adsorption on intermittent green electricity . The project aims to enable competitive, defossilized chemical processes built around flexible CO2 capture and conversion systems, combining process intensification, electrification, and dynamic operation. The research is hosted at Utrecht University , within the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development and the Energy & Resources group ....

Eindhoven University of Technology and the Employability Transition research group are collaborating on a PhD project within the new NWA project AUGMENT . The research focuses on human-centered technology implementation and the transition toward employee-shifting technology as a normal part of working life. The PhD researcher will contribute to scientific research that is developed with, for and by practice, exploring how technology can support workplace transformation while remaining meaningful...

The University of Twente invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy of science or a related philosophical field to join the NWA-funded project Fostering the Resilience of the Dutch Knowledge Sector: Knowledge Security and Research in a Geopolitical Context (KNOWSEC) . The project investigates how knowledge-security rationales, rules, and regulations affect science in an era of geopolitical competition. The postdoc will help develop analytical perspectives, theories, and met...

The University of Amsterdam is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the KNOWSEC-NL project, Fostering the Resilience of the Dutch Knowledge Sector: Knowledge Security and Research in a Geopolitical Context . The project examines how science and research systems can remain open to international collaboration while responding to growing geopolitical rivalry. The postdoctoral researcher will investigate urgent governance questions surrounding knowledge security, with particular attention to the...

The University of Amsterdam is offering a PhD project on legal and ethical perspectives in data-driven technologies in healthcare , led by Dr. Mahsa Shabani. The research is part of the NWO-VIDI project Fairness in Data-Driven Medical Technologies: Solidifying Regulatory Oversight Based on a Multidimensional Conception of Fairness . Artificial intelligence and genomics are transforming diagnosis and treatment, but healthcare innovations may fail to serve diverse populations fairly and can reinfo...