Fully Funded Ph.D. Fellowship from Wageningen University in the Netherlands 2020

Wageningen University and Research in the Netherlands is offering a 4-year fully-funded Ph.D. position in "assessing the socio-economic resilience of nature-based solutions to flood risk". The Dutch main water systems face pressing environmental, economic, and societal challenges due to climatic changes and increased human pressure. Nature-based solutions can address these challenges cost-effectively while providing environmental, social, and economic benefits, and making the local social-ecological system resilient to future changes. While ecological and geological processes are often well understood, understanding of societal and economic processes remains scattered. Therefore, there is an urgent need to identify design principles fostering societal support and economic viability of nature-based solutions and their impacts on socio-economic resilience. The project team addresses these questions using the largest river restoration project of the Netherlands, the Border Meuse (Grensmaas), as a Living Lab.

Eligibility Criteria:

• an MSc degreein economics, political sciences, environmental sciences or a related field;
• a background in quantitative methods and statistical analysis; programming skills (Python, R, MATLAB or any related language) are an advantage;
• previous experience with one of the following: economic experiments, surveys, spatial modeling, participatory methods, stakeholder interaction, Living Labs, or other co-creative processes;
• a keen interest to work on social-ecological systems; prior knowledge on the governance of Dutch water systems, decision-making under uncertainty, or the dynamics of social norms and risk perception is an advantage;
• fluency in spoken and written English and a willingness to learn Dutch for the empirical fieldwork;
• excellent organizational, communicating, and connecting skills: you will collaborate with scientists from various disciplines as well as with stakeholders.

Benefits:

• You will receive a fully-funded Ph.D. position, therefore you will be employed by the Wageningen University, where you will be offered a course program tailored to your needs and planned research.
• The gross salary for the first year is € 2.395, - per month rising to € 3.061, - in the fourth year in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement (scale P). This is based on a full working week of 38 hours. Wageningen offers a temporary contract for 18 months which will be extended for the duration of the project if you perform well.
• 8% holiday allowance;
• a structural year-end bonus of 8.3%;
• excellent training opportunities and secondary employment conditions;
• flexible working hours and holidays can possibly be determined in the consultation so that an optimal balance between work and private life is possible;
• excellent pension plan through ABP;
• 232 vacation hours, the option to purchase extra and good supplementary leave schemes;
• a flexible working time: the possibility to work a maximum of 2 hours per week extra and thereby to build up extra leave;
• a lively workplace where you can easily make contacts and where many activities take place on the Wageningen Campus. A place where education, research, and business are represented;
• use the sports facilities on campus.

About Wageningen University & Research:

Wageningen University & Research is a Dutch public university in Wageningen, Netherlands. It consists of Wageningen University and the former agricultural research institutes of the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture. Wageningen University & Research trains specialists (BSc, MSc, and Ph.D.) in life and social sciences and focuses its research on scientific, social, and commercial problems in the field of life sciences and natural resources. In the field of life sciences, agricultural and environmental science, the university is considered world-class.

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