PhD position

**Job Description**
This PhD position is embedded within the SPINES consortium, focusing on developing cross-sectoral strategies to proactively shape infrastructure demand in response to the pressures of climate change, energy transition, and resource scarcity. The research aims to move beyond traditional ‘predict-and-provide’ paradigms by combining insights from engineering, planning, innovation, and transition studies. The PhD candidate will investigate the institutional complexity that hinders or enables cross-sectoral visions and coordination, analyze micro-level mechanisms of institutional change in shaping infrastructure demand, and explore how infrastructure managers can transform and institutionalize organizational practices to promote fairer and more efficient use of infrastructure capacity.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Experience or affinity with the topic of infrastructure planning or institutional theory.
• Experience or affinity with active modes of doing research such as engaged scholarship, transdisciplinary research, and/or ethnography and corresponding research methods.
• Ability to work independently and in a team (willingness to interact with academic colleagues and societal partners).
• An excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Strong preference for candidates that are able to speak Dutch (or have a demonstrated willingness to learn this language).

**Qualifications**
Required Degree(s) in:
• Spatial planning
• Geography
• Environmental policy or sciences
• Public administration
• International studies
• Another related discipline (MSc required)

**Experience**
Other:
• Experience or affinity with infrastructure planning or institutional theory.
• Experience or affinity with active modes of doing research (e.g., engaged scholarship, transdisciplinary research, ethnography) and corresponding research methods.

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