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Application procedure

As Utrecht University, we want to be a home for everyone. We value staff with diverse backgrounds, perspectives and identities, including cultural, religious or ethnic background, gender, sexual orientation, disability or age. We strive to create a safe and inclusive environment in which everyone can flourish and contribute.

To apply, please send the following documentation via the ‘apply now’ button:
  1. your CV;
  2. a writing sample in English, which can be a chapter of your thesis, a final paper you wrote for one of your courses, a published article. The goal of reading your writing sample is to learn more about you, your research interests, and your writing;
  3. the names and contact information of two persons who can provide references;
  4. your motivation letter (length: up to 1500 words) that explicitly addresses (but is not limited to) the following questions:

  • What motivates you to do PhD research?
  • What intervention would you like to make in the current socio-political-environmental conjuncture?
  • How do you understand breathing and suffocation as research topics?
  • What are the theories/activist/artistic practices that impacted you the most so far and how would you link them to the problem of planetary respiration and asphyxiation?
  • What specific problems would you like your PhD project to intervene into?
  • How would you describe a research practice you would like to develop during your PhD (e.g., question of methods, relation of theory and society)?
  • How do you work in a team and individually?

Selection schedule:
  • Invitation to the first interview: 1.2.2025
  • First interview (online): 7.2.2025
  • Second interview (in-person, in Utrecht, the Netherlands): 14.2.2025

The start of the position is ideally 1.04.2025 but can be modified according to the visa and relocation process.

Make sure to apply no later than 19 Jan 2025 23:59 (Europe/Amsterdam).