This PhD position is part of an interdisciplinary team of three PhD researchers, one postdoc, and two senior researchers in the project ‘EXTRA’: From EXperiment to sustainable change: TRAnsformative methodologies for innovation and learning. EXTRA is a collaboration between multiple universities and public and private partners to research and advance physical and experimental environments as enabling methodologies for learning and innovation, also known as living labs.
Living labs are applied by various change-makers, including governmental actors, industry partners, NGOs, researchers, and citizens, to co-create innovations. However, while much experimentation and innovation occur, achieving long-term systemic change remains difficult. Therefore, the main purpose of EXTRA is to amplify the transformative power of living labs with novel insights, instruments, and human capacities, thus enabling change-makers to make sustainable changes and societal impacts.
In the consortium this PhD research will focus on the organization of innovation to accelerate sustainability transition. More specifically, by gathering knowledge and analyses across different fields and cases, this research will identify and validate (inter)organizational approaches, interventions, and business models to overcome barriers and enable the public-private collaboration needed for embedding, translating, and scaling innovations.
Requirements:
- A completed (research) master’s degree in social or organizational sciences (e.g., organization studies, business and innovation studies, anthropology, sociology).
- Demonstrable experience and affinity with scientific research and engaged scholarship
- Demonstrable experience and affinity with qualitative research methods, ethnography, and action research
- Good organizational and communication skills and a proactive attitude
- Motivation and capacity to contribute to theory and practice
- Full fluency of the Dutch and English languages in speech and writing (C1 level)
Benefits:
- A salary of € 2.901,00 (PhD) and maximum € 3.707,00 (PhD) gross per month in the fourth year, for a full-time employment
- An employment contract of initially 1 year. If there is sufficient perspective, this will be extended to a total of 4 years. Your dissertation at the end of the fourth year forms the end of your employment contract.
- All PhD candidates of the Faculty of Social Sciences will be enrolled in the Graduate School of Social Sciences (VU-GSSS) and admission to the VU-GSSS is part of the hiring procedure.
Organization/Company – Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU)
Research Field – Cultural studies
Research Profile – First Stage Researcher (R1)
More information: Euraxess
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