PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Media Studies in Netherlands

Erasmus University Rotterdam is offering a PhD project in operations management focused on optimizing emergency services that rely on decentralized and unpredictable capacity sources. The research examines two emerging forms of emergency-response capacity: community first responders who volunteer through smartphone applications, and independent commercial ambulance providers coordinated through emergency platforms. Because these responders are not scheduled, positioned or directly controlled by ...

The PhD project is based in the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University and focuses on how art-science-action integration and challenge-based learning can strengthen transformative sustainability education. The position sits at the intersection of sustainability education, transformative learning, arts-based interventions and higher education research. The doctoral researcher will investigate how universities can prepare students to contribute meaningfully to comple...

Promovendus 'Evaluatie van een digitale COPD-coach' at Radboudumc in Nijmegen is a PhD project within the DACIL consortium, focused on evaluating an innovative digital coach for people with COPD. The project sits at the intersection of clinical research, digital health, and artificial intelligence, and is embedded in the Department of Primary and Community Care. The PhD candidate will investigate the effectiveness and clinical value of the DACIL app, which uses speech analysis, sensors, and AI t...

EngD at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) in a project on making textile production more digital, circular, and scalable for SMEs. The position is embedded in a public-private field lab with TU/e, industry partners, design researchers, and the Dutch Textile Campus, and it focuses on using data-driven methods to improve how used garments are assessed and routed through the textile value chain. The trainee will work on turning machine, production, and ecosystem data into actionable insight...

FEEL at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to work on forecasting dengue epidemics by combining climate information with indicators of human emotion. The project explores whether emotions expressed in news and public social media can add predictive value to dengue models, opening a new perspective on how human behaviour and communication patterns may relate to disease risk. Based at the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) , the researcher will join an inte...

PhD in Optimization of Emergency Services under Decentralized Capacity Sources at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The project focuses on optimizing emergency response systems through mathematical modelling, machine learning, simulation, optimization and game theory. The research addresses how emergency services can be designed and coordinated when capacity sources are decentralized, combining operations research with computational and analytical ...

This PhD project at Delft University of Technology focuses on energy data sharing for city-level policy making using digital twins within the FEDERATE NWO project. The research addresses a practical bottleneck in municipal decarbonization and sustainability planning: digital twins often depend on fragmented, partial, and incomplete data, while municipalities need richer and more actionable information to support policy decisions. The doctoral researcher will study data sharing architectures that...

This PhD project explores responsible AI for online safety at the intersection of artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and computational social science. The research focuses on developing trustworthy and accountable methods for AI systems that remain reliable when people or other AI systems try to manipulate them. The project includes methodological and empirical work on topics such as detecting AI-driven manipulation, including coordinated influence campaigns and social bots, building early ...

Tilburg Law School at Tilburg University is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for a project on investor stewardship and shareholder engagement . The position sits in the Department of Private, Business & Labour Law and is embedded in the research programme Connecting Responsible Organizations , which focuses on sustainability and technology and connects legal scholarship with empirical and practice-oriented research. The project asks when shareholder engagement makes a difference, for whom, and ...