Job opportunities
PhD Candidate: Interactive Speech-based AI for Learning Pronunciation
Passionate about transforming pronunciation learning with voice AI? AI-based speech diagnostics are used to analyse spoken audio in e-health to diagnose and monitor diseases, and in education, to evaluate and guide learning. However, current AI-based speech diagnosis has two shortcomings. First, it...
PhD Candidate: Social inequalities in the history of the Dutch health transition
What are the historical roots of current-day social inequalities in health? As a PhD Candidate in the field of Economic, Social and Demographic History you will have the opportunity to carry out your own PhD project to study what caused health inequalities in the Netherlands during the long...
PhD Candidate: The Language of Pain Across and Between Languages
Are you interested in how word meanings differ across languages and how we acquire and use concepts in a second language? Then start your academic career within linguistics as a PhD candidate. In this project, you will investigate how people talk about pain in different languages. Cross-linguistic...
PhD Candidate: The History of the Second Feminist Wave in the Netherlands
Do you have an MA in history and are you passionate about the history of feminism and in developing your expertise in the fields of gender, women's and oral history? Then you may be interested in this PhD position to work on an oral history project concerning the history of feminism and women's...
PhD Candidate on Literature Education in Dutch English Foreign Language Education
How can insights into the Zeitgeist of Generation Z help secondary-school students become more engaged readers of literature and prepare them for their future role as responsible citizens? As a PhD candidate you will investigate the socio-didactic dimension of Anglophone literature in Dutch English...
PhD Candidate in Medieval / Early Modern Intellectual History
Are you an enthusiastic young researcher with a master's degree in a history-related field? And do you want to challenge the assumption that in early modern Europe, the Middle Ages were ignored in favour of the classics? Then join this project as a PhD candidate! It is generally assumed that in...
PhD Candidate: Prosocial Storytelling
Are you interested in the impact of storytelling on prosocial behaviour? Do you want to contribute to gaining new insights in the field of narrative persuasion that might help charities develop stories that move hearts and support the ones the most in need? As a PhD candidate in the field of...
PhD Candidate: Migrant Experiences of Space and Time in the Roman Empire
How did migrant workers experience their lives in the mines and stone quarries of the Roman Empire? Their lives are documented in finds from the settlements and graveyards surrounding their workplaces. You will use these finds to construct/reconstruct the everyday practices and experiences of time...
Postdoctoral Researcher: Interdisciplinary Research Project on Persuasion and Manipulation in Digital Contexts
How do smart technologies influence us in online settings, and should we worry about this? In this project you will analyse persuasion and manipulation in digital contexts as part of an interdisciplinary research team. Smart technologies influence and 'nudge' human behaviour in ways that users are...
PhD Position on Interdisciplinary Research Project on Persuasion and Manipulation in Digital Contexts
How do smart technologies influence us in online settings, and should we worry about this? In this project you are going to analyse misinformation and persuasion on the web, and you will do as part of an interdisciplinary research team. Smart technologies influence and 'nudge' human behaviour in...