Scholarship Details: The Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is an international institute for research and education in linguistics and is part of the Faculty of Humanities at Leiden University. Our main targets are to perform top quality research, to gain a prominent national and international visibility in both science and society and to maintain [...]

Scholarship Details: In the context of The European Council’s Seventh Framework Programme on anticorruption policies, a history workgroup has been set up in order to examine the definition, development, and diversity of corrupt practices and anticorruption measures. Given the specializations of the scholars already involved in the project, the PhD candidate will focus his or [...]

Scholarship Details: The focus of NCB Naturalis is on biodiversity research and education. NCB Naturalis curates one of the world’s largest natural history collections with about 37 million specimens. We present the history of our planet and the diversity of life on Earth with permanent and temporary exhibitions, educational programs and websites. Our research and [...]

Scholarship Details: The Institute of Political Science of Leiden University invites applications for a PhD position in political science, starting in September 2012, or as soon as possible thereafter. The Institute, which consists of about 45 national and international faculty members, has an established international reputation, having consistently received the highest ratings in peer reviews [...]

Scholarship Details: The project is funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). Within the project, ISLA collaborates with the Hogeschool van Amsterdam, Fox-IT Forensics as well forensics and intelligence agencies. In e-discovery, digital information (e-mails, discussion forums) is mined to find answers to questions such as “Who knew what, at which time, and [...]

Scholarship Details: The VU Fellowship Programme (VUFP) is a highly selective scholarship for strongly motivated students with excellent study results. Who can apply? · International students enrolling in preselected master’s degree programmes at VU University starting September 2012, as listed here. · International students enrolling in the bachelor’s degree programme International Business Administration, starting September [...]

Scholarship Details: The department of Ecological Science, section Animal Ecology, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands has a PhD position available for the project: “Community responses to extreme weather events” Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of extreme weather events, such as heat waves or dry spells. Differences among species in the ability to [...]

Scholarship Details: A major challenge in developmental biology is to identify the genetic changes that lead to the evolution of animal and plant species with a wide variety of morphologies. Higher plant species develop solitary flowers or complex inflorescences with many flowers arranged in an array of different patterns. The genetic control of the development [...]

Scholarship Details: As a PhD student you will conduct research as part of a project called ’Increasing robustness of speech recognition by using multiple signal representations’. Speech processing in the human brain presumably involves competition between multiple, intermediate signal representations. The redundancy of these different representations are assumed to help improve the robustness of recognition. [...]

Scholarship Details: The Department of Information and Computing Sciences of Utrecht University (Netherlands) invites applications for a PhD position in Music Computing on Sensing Emotion in Music. Sensing Emotion in Music is part of the national ICT research program COMMIT (http://www.commit-nl.nl/). Within COMMIT, the project Virtual Worlds for Wellbeing will develop technologies to register and [...]

Scholarship Details: As a PhD student you will conduct research on nonnative acquisition of grammar (e.g. morphosyntax and its interfaces) in the research group of Prof. Bonnie D. Schwartz, resulting in a dissertation. This newly established group studies the representation, processing and learning of non-native systems (vs. native systems) in adults and children, focusing on [...]

Scholarship Details: Candidates can apply for this grant by sending a letter of motivation in which they indicate that they are in need of a grant and would like to be considered for the UGTG: Research Master Behavioural and Social Sciences (partial grant).

Scholarship Details: The PhD candidate at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Amsterdam will be appointed for 4 years for 0.8 FTE under de terms of the employment currently valid for the Faculty. In the first instance, a contract will be given for 16 months, with an extension for the following 32 months [...]

Scholarship Details: Leiden University has a longstanding tradition in research in the world’s languages and features unique linguistic expertise. LUCL combines current theoretical insights and modern experimental methods in its research profile area ‘Language Diversity in the World’.

Scholarship Details: The Leiden / Amsterdam Center for Drug Research (LACDR) is part of the Faculty of Science. The LACDR is a leading institute which performs fundamental and strategic scientific research in the field of innovative drug research. The Division of Analytical Biosciences of the Leiden/Amsterdam Center for Drug Research (LACDR) and the Departments of [...]

Scholarship Details: We offer a very challenging position in an inspiring multidisciplinary and international environment. As a PhD candidate you will be offered a full-time (38 hours/week) position as a member of the MCBP group for a maximum of four years, after which you should have completed your PhD thesis. In accordance with the Collective [...]

Scholarship Details: Maastricht University aims to further strengthen its position as a leading European university offering high-quality education with an international orientation. To this end, the university implements a proactive recruitment policy for Indian students, in particular for the master’s programmes. Scholarships are made available by the Maastricht University Scholarship Fund in order to encourage [...]

Scholarship Details: The section of Sedimentology & Marine Geology within the Department of Earth Sciences has a post doctoral position available in Carbonate Sedimentology and Petrophysics. Within the Department of Earth Sciences, geology courses are given at the Bachelor and Master level. The section of Sedimentology & Marine Geology participates in the Geology Master and [...]

Scholarship Details: The PhD research will be aimed at the development of a model for sand transport under breaking waves. During the breaking process of waves near the beach large quantities of sand are stirred up from the sea bed and transported. The detailed dynamics of this transport process, which takes place near the sea [...]

Scholarship Details: The IMPRS for Language Sciences is now advertising three doctoral fellowships in any field contributing to the language sciences, for example, linguistics, psycholinguistics, cognitive neuroscience of language, or language and genetics. The fellowships are, in the normal case, three years in length. Fellowship recipients will receive a monthly salary sufficient to cover living [...]

Scholarship Details: You are an ambitious researcher and want to devote your research time to the new research field of sustainable urbanisation. By that, you will contribute to the research program ‘Informed governance for sustainable urbanisation’, which was set-up within the Section of Spatial Planning of the Department of Human Geography of Utrecht University. Within [...]