Postdoc Opportunities in Sociology in Netherlands

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 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 postdoctoral position is based in the Animal Production Systems group at Wageningen University & Research , where the team studies the role of livestock in food systems and the trade-offs and synergies between environmental impact, animal welfare, and economic viability. The project focuses on the governance of transitions toward more sustainable and regenerative farming systems , with particular attention to how governance instruments shape the future of livestock farming. The successful c...

This postdoc at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) focuses on developing AI-enabled robotic systems for responsible human-robot collaboration in the EU-funded OPERA project. The work addresses how autonomous robots in human-centered environments can move beyond immediate sensor response to estimate uncertainty, adapt to human preferences and values, explain their decisions, and act safely and reliably in changing conditions. The project investigates meaningful human control in human-robot...

The Research Group Governance of Crisis at the Institute of Security and Global Affairs (ISGA), Leiden University, is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to contribute to research on EU crisis governance and transboundary disaster and crisis management . The project sits within a multidisciplinary environment in The Hague and connects crisis studies with broader debates in public administration, organization science, sociology, safety science, political science, and research methods. The postdoc w...

This postdoctoral project is part of COLFIN: Colonial Financial Infrastructures , a research project led by Marieke de Goede at the University of Amsterdam . The postdoc will join a team examining how colonial histories shaped modern financial infrastructures, with a specific focus on the development of credit and securitization . The successful candidate will develop an independent line of research on an aspect of early modern colonial finance and relate it to postcolonial political economies. ...

The University of Groningen is seeking a postdoctoral researcher for the ECHO project, Energy transition, Collective dynamics and Human Opinions in agent-networks . The project investigates how societal debates about the energy transition develop through interconnected computational approaches: agent-based opinion-dynamics models and models built with large language model agents. Based in the Department of Sociology at the University of Groningen, the postdoc will work on the agent-based modelli...