Postdoc Opportunities in International Relations in Netherlands

This postdoc sits within the Amsterdam Centre for Migration and Refugee Law at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and focuses on executive lawmaking in EU migration law . The project examines how legislative power is delegated to the European Commission in the field of migration and asylum, especially in light of the European Pact on Migration and Asylum adopted in 2024. The successful candidate will contribute to a VIDI project titled “Executive supremacy? Executive lawmaking in migration law” , whic...

This postdoctoral position sits within the SPARKLES project, which explores how floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems on inland waters can be developed in ways that are beneficial for both people and nature. The project connects energy science, ecology and governance to support a nature-positive energy transition, and this role focuses on bringing the project’s different strands together at the landscape scale. The successful researcher will work on integrating existing research outputs, datasets ...

The University of Twente invites applications for a postdoctoral researcher in philosophy of science or a related philosophical field to join the NWA-funded project Fostering the Resilience of the Dutch Knowledge Sector: Knowledge Security and Research in a Geopolitical Context (KNOWSEC) . The project investigates how knowledge-security rationales, rules, and regulations affect science in an era of geopolitical competition. The postdoc will help develop analytical perspectives, theories, and met...

The University of Amsterdam is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the KNOWSEC-NL project, Fostering the Resilience of the Dutch Knowledge Sector: Knowledge Security and Research in a Geopolitical Context . The project examines how science and research systems can remain open to international collaboration while responding to growing geopolitical rivalry. The postdoctoral researcher will investigate urgent governance questions surrounding knowledge security, with particular attention to the...

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 is part of KNOWSEC-NL , a large interdisciplinary consortium studying how Dutch and European knowledge institutions can remain open to international collaboration while responding to geopolitical and geo-economic competition. The project focuses on knowledge security as a systems problem and uses energy transition technologies as the main anchor for analysis, including energy storage and batteries, catalysis and solar fuels, hydrogen, and the critical materials they de...

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 postdoc sits within GOV4CARE , an international European consortium led by Amsterdam UMC that examines how health systems can become more ecologically sustainable and climate-resilient. The position is based in the Health Systems and Services Research group in the Department of Public and Occupational Health , where researchers study how health systems perform in terms of quality, accessibility, equity, efficiency, ecological sustainability, and resilience. The project places the postdoc at...

This postdoctoral project at Amsterdam UMC is part of the European GOV4CARE consortium and focuses on measuring and improving the ecological sustainability and climate resilience of European health systems. You will work within the Health Systems and Services Research group in the Department of Public and Occupational Health at Amsterdam UMC, in close collaboration with the Amsterdam UMC Centre for Sustainable Care and international partners across the consortium. A key scientific partner is Yal...