PhD Opportunities in International Relations 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) ...

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 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...

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 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...

PhD in Organisational Behaviour and Human Resource Management Rotterdam School of Management at Erasmus University is offering a doctoral research opportunity within the People and Organisations Department. The project is situated at the intersection of organisational behaviour and human resource management, with research themes including teams, social networks, leadership, diversity and strategic HRM. The doctoral researcher will contribute to behavioural research examining how people and organ...

This PhD project at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) focuses on developing new theory and algorithms for multi-actor transport and logistics systems , where multiple players with potentially conflicting objectives influence one another’s decisions. The position sits at the intersection of operations research , game theory , and mixed-integer optimisation , with the aim of creating methodologies that can capture competition and collaboration among actors in planning and operating complex...