13 available Early Stage Researcher/PhD positions

Organization

NEWAVE (Next Water Governance)

Deadline

Sunday, May 24, 2020

Start Date

Tuesday, September 1, 2020

Learn more

Selected researchers will enrol in one of the 15 positions offered by the 10 host organizations participating in the NEWAVE network. You may apply for a maximum of 3 projects.

  1. Multi-level assessment of water stress and institutional dynamics in the water-climate-conflict nexus
    (Host: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands – Geographical focus: Myanmar)
     
  2. The politics of river basin closures
    (Host: Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD), France  – Geographical focus: Spain)
     
  3. Water scarcity and migration in East Africa
    (Host: Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Geographical focus: Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania)
     
  4. Rainwater harvesting, storage and use in mitigating drought emergencies in semiarid environments
    (Host: University of Nairobi, Kenya - Geographical focus: Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda)
     
  5. Managing urban water demand across multiple spatio-temporal scales
    (Host: Politecnico di Milano, Italy - Geographical focus: Europe)
     
  6. The European Union as an innovator in water governance paradigms. The case of sources, patterns and effects from the Water Framework Directive
    (Host: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands - Geographical focus: Europe)
     
  7. From participation to co-production of socio-hydrological knowledge
    (Host: Fundación Nueva Cultura Del Agua (FNCA), Spain - Geographical focus: Spain)
     
  8. Water/mining paradigms and the politics of naturalizing water overabundance: a comparative study of extractive industries’ political-material construction of flooding and drainage problems
    (Host: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands - Geographical focus: Guatemala, Netherlands)
     
  9. Consultancy firms and the circulation of policy paradigms: roles, responsibilities and impacts
    (Host: ARCADIS, Netherlands - Geographical focus: Chile, Colombia)
     
  10. Austerity as a means of initiating re-commoning governance practices
    (Host: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands - Geographical focus: Europe)
     
  11. Assessing the sustainability of water governance systems in global comparison
    (Host: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany - Geographical focus: Global)
     
  12. Understanding the evolution of informal water markets in Eastern Africa*
    (Host: University of Oxford, England - Geographical focus: Kenya)
    *THIS POSITION HAS ALREADY BEEN FILLED
     
  13. Integrating patterns of urban water governance in Southeast Asia
    (Host: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands - Geographical focus: Indonesia)
     
  14. Integrity, infrastructure and water sub-sector reform: comparing large scale irrigation and urban water supply in India and Indonesia
    (Host: School of Oriental and African Studies of London, England - Geographical focus: India, Indonesia)
     
  15. Financing drinking water services in rural Eastern Africa*
    (Host: University of Oxford, England - Geographical focus: Kenya)
    *THIS POSITION HAS ALREADY BEEN FILLED