- Home
- Programmes
- Social Sciences
- Netherlands
34 PhD programmes in Social Sciences in Netherlands
Behavioral and Movement Sciences
The Faculty of Behavioral and Movement Sciences (FGB) of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is unique within the broad domain of behaviour and health due to the combination of the disciplines of psychology, education and movement sciences.
Archaeology
The Faculty of Archaeology at the Leiden University offers a dynamic research environment for PhD candidates.
Political Science
The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research is dedicated to providing supervision and support to post-graduate students pursuing a PhD in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. It offers this degree programme in Political Science.
Cognitive Robotics
Cognitive robotics is about developing intelligence in robots. The Cognitive Robotics research group at Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) focuses primarily on how robots can best plan and carry out their subsequent actions, so three cognitive aspects come into play: perception, thinking and acting.
Innovation, Economics and Governance for Development
At Innovation, Economics and Governance for Development at Maastricht University through our disciplinary and multidisciplinary research, our ambition is to contribute to the academic debate and to societal policy and innovation solutions at all stages of the policy process: from the setting of a policy agenda to the delivery and evaluation of public policy.
Social Studies
The International Institute of Social Studies (ISS) at Erasmus University Rotterdam offers a four-year PhD programme leading to an internationally recognized degree.
Sociology
The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research is dedicated to providing supervision and support to post-graduate students pursuing a PhD in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. It offers this degree programme in Sociology.
Governance and Global Affairs
Thank you for your interest in doing PhD research at the Graduate School of Governance and Global Affairs from Leiden University.
Experimental and Political Economics
The aim of the Experimental and Political Economics programme at the University of Amsterdam is improving the understanding of the behavioural determinants and consequences of economic decision making by focusing on political economic issues, allowing for bounded rationality, and using laboratory experimentation as a research method.
Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences
The Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN) is a multi-disciplinary research school within the University of Groningen.
Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity
The department of Art and Culture, History, and Antiquity at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is characterised by its staff's interdisciplinary and global approach to research and teaching on the present and the past.
Geography, Planning and International Development Studies
The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research is dedicated to providing supervision and support to post-graduate students pursuing a PhD in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. It offers this degree programme in Geography, Planning and International Development Studies.
Anthropology
The Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research is dedicated to providing supervision and support to post-graduate students pursuing a PhD in social sciences at the University of Amsterdam. It offers this degree programme in Anthropology.
Economics
PhD candidates in this Economics program at Erasmus University Rotterdam will focus on one of five distinct fields of study.
Macro and International Economics
Macro and International Economics at the University of Amsterdam is one of the research groups of the Amsterdam School of Economics Research Institute. It focuses on applied and theoretical research within the areas of macroeconomics and international economics.
Environmental Geography
The PhD programme in the department of Environmental Geography at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam has a strong methodological focus in developing, applying and interpreting novel approaches for the description, mapping, and modelling methods land and food systems on different spatial and temporal scales.
Equilibrium, Expectations and Dynamics
The objective of the Equilibrium, Expectations and Dynamics programme at the University of Amsterdam is the development of (mathematical) economic theory, focusing on the understanding of economic processes.
Global Economics and Management
The aim of the PhD Global Economics and Management programme at University of Groningen is to turn out highly qualified researchers. For this purpose, FEB offers PhD positions to excellent candidates who recently graduated.
Regional, Transnational and European Studies
The Amsterdam School for Regional, Transnational and European Studies was created with the goal of pooling and developing further existing research expertise in transnational and regional studies within the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Amsterdam.
Econometrics
The University of Amsterdam Econometrics research programme aims at improving the accuracy, efficiency and robustness of econometric methods.