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

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) ...

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 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...

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 I-CARE project at the University of Twente explores how the impacts of informal caregiving can be better incorporated into health technology assessment and healthcare decision-making. The postdoctoral researcher will help develop and evaluate methods for capturing caregiver impacts that are often overlooked in HTAs and reimbursement decisions. Working within the HTSR section, the successful candidate will contribute to a methodological project that combines health technology assessment, heal...

This PhD project is based at Amsterdam UMC within the Department of Geriatric Medicine and focuses on strengthening client and citizen participation in district nursing research and practice. The study sits within the Academische Werkplaatsen Wijkverpleging Noord-Holland and is linked to the national consortium of academic workplaces in district nursing. You will work on research aimed at making participation a more structural, meaningful and sustainable part of how care is developed and improve...

This postdoc position at the University Medical Center Groningen sits within an interdisciplinary research environment focused on the implementation of digital care and the accessibility of healthcare technologies. The project addresses an important societal challenge: while digital tools are increasingly used to improve efficiency and quality in care, many people still struggle to use them, especially in communities with lower socioeconomic status and lower digital literacy. The successful cand...

This PhD position sits within GOV4CARE , a five-year European research project coordinated by the Health Systems and Services Research group at Amsterdam UMC in collaboration with the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare . The project focuses on how European healthcare systems can improve their ecological sustainability and climate resilience, and how these goals can be embedded in policy, governance, organization, and everyday care practice. The doctoral research is internationally comparative and...