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Prof. Dr. Petra de Weerd-Nederhof and Prof. Dr. Nadine Roijakkers of the Open University in collaboration with Pieter Moerman and Thomas Boekhoud of Katapult (www.wijzijnkatapult.nl) are looking for you!
Do you want to contribute to shaping a sustainable future through research and innovation in technology-driven ecosystems? Be part of a transformative journey that bridges skills gaps and drives crucial transitions towards a digital and circular age.
Job description
Are you passionate about driving sustainable transitions in a rapidly changing world? Do you have a keen interest in technology-driven ecosystems and their potential to bring about crucial changes in various sectors? We are seeking a highly motivated and talented PhD candidate to join our research team and investigate the role of ecosystem orchestrators in addressing skills gaps during transitions towards a digital and circular age.
Responsibilities
Requirements
Fixed-term contract: for 4 years.
Benefits
Station
Heerlen. In consultation with your supervisors, you work on campus or from home. But as the candidate will also be a member of the research team at Katapult, you will also regularly be in The Hague.
Salary
The salary is determined in accordance with salary scale P of Appendix A of the Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities and amounts to € 2.770,= gross per month upon commencement, in case of full employment.
The PhD candidate will be appointed for a period of 15 months. The appointment will be extended to 4 years when progress and performance are good.
Flexible studying anywhere in the Netherlands and (Belgium) Flanders
The Open Universiteit is the part-time university in the Netherlands. Students follow personalised and activating academic distance education and disciplinary research is carried out within the various fields of science. Students can complete bachelor and master programmes, but also shorter programmes. The characteristics of education are openness, flexibility and quality (see www.ou.nl/rankings). The Open Universiteit has over 17,000 students and more than 850 employees. The OU has branches in the Netherlands and Belgium (see www.ou.nl/studiecentra). The main office is located in Heerlen.
The latest technologies and educational insights are applied both in the bachelor's and master's programmes and courses and in projects and programmes with partners. Nationally and internationally, the OU plays an important role in the innovation of higher education. Education is interwoven with research, which also ensures that the current state of science is incorporated. The Open Universiteit invests not only in disciplinary research in nine scientific fields, but also in research in a multidisciplinary programme: Innovating for resilience.
The faculty of Science is one of the six faculties of the Open Universiteit. Education, research and valorisation are the main tasks. The faculty offers academic bachelor and master programmes in the fields of Computer Science, Information Science, and Environmental Sciences, including a recently developed Artificial Intelligence master programme (started February 2022). The faculty’s research programme focuses on Innovating for Resilience. The faculty has Ph.D.-students who conduct research on various current topics within the research programme. As a result of the interdisciplinary focus on education and research, as well as the close link with practice, work at our faculty provides many innovative and challenging opportunities for entrepreneurial researchers.
Department of Information Science
The Department of Information Science has approximately 23 employees (19 FTE) and consists of enthusiastic and ambitious faculty-researchers. The research mission of the department is to promote the use of information systems for the value creation of organizations, networks and society as a whole. We focus on the subfields of strategic design, governance and business processes and also collaborate in the framework of the OU-wide research programs "Safe City" and "Learning and Innovation in Resilient Systems". The academic bachelor's and master's degree programs, which are provided (largely online) by the department, are well regarded by our students and regularly receive awards for the quality of teaching. The courses we offer also incorporate the latest educational technologies and insights, as evidenced by the department's active contribution to university-wide educational innovation projects.
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