PhD Opportunities in Sociology in Netherlands

PhD opportunity at Wageningen University & Research in the Law Group on assessing social sustainability in short food supply chains . This PhD is part of the Horizon Europe project SOCIAL AGRI , which studies how law and policy can make agri-food systems fairer and more socially sustainable. The project focuses on social issues that are often under-captured in agricultural data and policy, including working conditions, farmer wellbeing, migrant worker integration, gender equality, inclusion, com...

PhD opportunity at Utrecht University in Art-Science-Action Integration & Challenge-Based Sustainability Education . This PhD position is hosted by the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development in the Faculty of Geosciences at Utrecht University . The project explores how higher education can better prepare students to contribute meaningfully to complex sustainability challenges by combining academic knowledge, actionable skills, and artistic expression. The research sits at the intersecti...

Leiden University’s Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI) is recruiting a PhD Researcher for the Minaret Project, a HORIZON Unit Grant-funded interdisciplinary and transnational research initiative on the interconnection between law, religion, governance, constitutional reform, and post-imperial Islamic legal culture . The advertised PhD project is titled “A Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Culture: Insights from Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and ...

PhD position at Radboud University in the Department of Ecology / Radboud Institute for Biological and Environmental Sciences (RIBES) on biodiversity monitoring for nature-inclusive dairy farming . The project focuses on developing integrated biodiversity monitoring and data analysis techniques to support decision-making in the dairy sector, with an emphasis on biodiversity recovery, ecosystem services, and nature-inclusive farming. Research topics include breeding birds, bats, insect communitie...

Leiden University is recruiting a PhD candidate for the research project Entangled with Seaweed , focusing on the economization of seaweed and blue economy strategies in South Africa. The project examines how seaweed-related development affects coastal communities, especially in contexts shaped by colonial and apartheid legacies and unequal access to coastal areas. The PhD researcher will be based at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology, Faculty of Social and Behaviou...

PhD opportunity in Population-Scale Network Science at Leiden University This 4-year fully funded PhD position is based at the Leiden Institute of Advanced Computer Science (LIACS), Faculty of Science, Leiden University, in the Netherlands. The project focuses on developing new network science methods for analyzing longitudinal, population-scale social network data from the Dutch population (Statistics Netherlands). The research is centered on fast algorithms, network measures, and novel approac...

Leiden University is recruiting a PhD candidate for the research project Entangled with Seaweed , focused on ethnographic research into the politics of valuing seaweed and the impacts of blue economy strategies in Scotland . The project sits in the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology at Leiden University and is part of a broader collaboration with the University of Edinburgh , the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) , and Stellenbosch University . The research...

PhD position in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam in the Netherlands, within the HORIZON MSCA Doctoral Network DIViNE (Democratic Institutions and Violence Network in Europe). The project focuses on democratization , political violence , governance , and policy studies . The selected PhD candidate will work on how political violence persists in democracies, with a project examining transitions, rent-seeking incentives, decentralization bargains, and relationships between national ...

Wageningen University & Research is advertising a fully funded PhD on resilience against disaster and war in the Netherlands . The project sits in the chair group Sociology of Development and Change and focuses on how resilience initiatives are implemented, who participates, who makes decisions, and what impact they have on communities and crisis preparedness. The research combines a literature review with empirical work in Dutch municipalities and/or Safety Regions. It is explicitly connected t...