13 Fully Funded PhD Positions Available through NEWAVE

Feb 16, 2020 | NEWAVE
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NEWAVE is rooted in the conviction that the rising threats of future water crises and hydro-social challenges, present an urgent need to enhance the global capacity to reflect critically on the current water governance trajectory. In that light NEWAVE takes three interrelated steps as it aims to:

1. Bring together an excellent trans-national and transdisciplinary network of water governance organisations;
2. Develop and implement a cutting-edge actionable research agenda on the key water governance priorities and insights for future directions;
3. Train a new generation of water governance early stage researchers (ESRs) and ensure that they have the trans- and interdisciplinary skills to make significant contributions to both the academic and extra-academic water governance world.

PhDs Recruitement

Selected researchers will enroll in one of the 13 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. Neither privatizing nor-remunicipalizing: Austerity as a means of initiating re-commoning governance practices
    (Host: Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands - Geographical focus: Greece)
     
11. Assessing the sustainability of water governance systems in global comparison
    (Host: Leuphana Universität Lüneburg, Germany - Geographical focus: Global)
    
    
12. Integrating patterns of urban water governance in Southeast Asia
    (Host: Universiteit van Amsterdam, Netherlands - Geographical focus: Indonesia)
     
13. 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)