PhD Opportunities in Political Science 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...

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 ....

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...

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...

The Prins Bernhard Cultuurfonds offers scholarships for Dutch students who want to study or conduct research abroad after completing their studies in the Netherlands. The award supports a wide range of disciplines and is designed for full-time, internationally based study or research that builds directly on the applicant’s previous academic training. Successful applicants can use the funding for a degree programme abroad or a research placement at a foreign institution. The scholarship is especi...

This PhD project at the University of Amsterdam is based in the Complex Cyber Infrastructure research group within the Informatics Institute . It sits at the intersection of AI research, computational systems, and real-world deployment contexts where accountability, transparency, and regulatory alignment are increasingly important. The project focuses on Accountable and Responsible AI , with particular attention to how generative AI systems can be made more transparent, traceable, and practicall...

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...