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PhD Institutional Change in the Organization of Care in the Netherlands (Utrecht University) – deadline 1 April 2026
The Department of History and Art History at Utrecht University is looking for a PhD candidate for the project ‘PhD Institutional Change in the Organization of Care in the Netherlands’.
This project explores how various forms of care arrangements have interacted and changed over time in the Netherlands during the long 20th century, and studies the reasons behind these developments. It adopts an institutional lens that emphasizes the dynamic relationships among families, for example, the gendered division of care within households, local communities, organizations, and the state in the provision of care. The PhD project is part of the interdisciplinary SOCION consortium. SOCION addresses a pressing challenge of our time: fragmentation in societies. In this consortium, psychologists, social historians, demographers, philosophers, and sociologists collaborate with civic organizations to generate and integrate insights into how connections between individuals, groups, and institutions contribute to new pathways to and forms of social cohesion.
Application should be submitted ultimately 1 April 2026 via the dedicated portal of Utrecht University.
