PhD Position in Local Democracy, Political Inequality, and Underrepresented Communities University of Amsterdam in Netherlands

PhD Position: Navigating Labour and Housing Precarity in Amsterdam at the University of Amsterdam , Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. This PhD project examines how labour migrants in Amsterdam experience, navigate, and resist precarious living conditions at the intersection of labour and housing. The project is embedded in the Urban Geographies programme group, within the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Scie...

PhD opportunity at the University of Amsterdam on labour and housing precarity in Amsterdam, within the Urban Impact Lab of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) . The project examines how labour migrants in Amsterdam experience, navigate, and resist precarious living conditions at the intersection of labour and housing. The position is supervised/announced by Emil van Eck (Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam) together with Fenne Pinkster . The vacancy sits in the ...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Amsterdam in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences for a project titled Urban Utopias and Urban Policy in Amsterdam . The position is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and focuses on urban policy , urban studies , housing , sociology , anthropology , and qualitative research . The project examines how grassroots and community-led housing initiatives in Amsterdam are creating fairer, more sustainable, and more inclusive alternatives to pro...

PhD Position: The Rule of Law from Below at the University of Amsterdam (Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences, Department of Sociology / AISSR) invites applications for a PhD project on rule of law , urban rights , human rights , social justice , and socio-legal research in Amsterdam. The project examines how urban residents, community-based groups, and social movements seek justice, equality, inclusion, and access to services in everyday interactions with municipal authorities and frontli...

Radboud University is offering a fully funded PhD position in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, embedded in the Radboud Social Cultural Research Institute at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The project starts in November 2026 and focuses on ecological violence, gender, decolonial ecologies, and care in Latin America and/or the Caribbean. The successful candidate will develop an independent PhD research project on how violence against nature is a...