PhD position “Transforming Academia”

PhD position “Transforming Academia”

Introduction

Are you curious about the role of academia in enabling just sustainability transitions?
Do you want to understand how the academic system is both changing - and needs to change in response to urgent societal challenges? Are you interested in exploring the contestations that arise when new forms of academic practice - such as transdisciplinary, action-oriented, and engaged research emerge and become institutionalised?
And would you like to work directly with innovators who are actively rethinking and reshaping academic rules, practices and institutions?

Erasmus School of Philosophy (ESPhil), Erasmus University Rotterdam, invites applications for a full-time PhD position within the NWO-funded research project “Academia in Transition.” The project focuses on the role of academia in just sustainability transitions and critically examines how academic...