PhD Position

**Job Description**
This PhD position is part of the SPINES consortium, focusing on developing cross-sectoral strategies to proactively shape infrastructure demand, moving beyond the traditional ‘predict-and-provide’ paradigm. The research integrates insights from engineering, planning, innovation, and transition studies to explore the dynamics between infrastructure management, policymaking, and end-user behavior. It specifically examines the institutional complexity hindering cross-sectoral coordination, micro-level mechanisms of institutional change, and methods for transforming organizational practices to foster a demand-shaping infrastructure paradigm, while addressing the dual challenge of short-term operational demands and long-term societal transformations like climate change and energy transition.

**Skills & Abilities**
• Ability to work independently and in a team (i.e. a willingness to interact with academic colleagues and societal partners).
• An excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Strong preference for candidates that also 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 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.

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