진학프로석·박사 채용 접수 플랫폼

This four year fully funded PhD project investigates how complex temporalities of migration in urban contexts interact with migration and inclusion policies. As cities like Rotterdam and Bilbao exhibit varied temporalities of migrants’ stay, policies based on assumptions about how long migrants intend to stay are challenged.

Research explores which temporality considerations local and national policies take into account for various migrant categories (intra-EU, asylum seekers, highly skilled, digital nomads, students) and how lived realities interact with policies, affecting access to rights and services in Rotterdam and Bilbao. The project aims to speak to literature on complexity of migration, the mobility turn and governance studies. This position involves a secondment of 3 months to the University of Deusto in Bilbao.

Main Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Peter Scholten (Erasmus University Rotterdam) – p.scholten@essb.eur.nl

Co-supervisor: Dr. Bilge Yabanci (University of Deusto) – bilge.yabanci@deusto.es

MITIME Network
Up on selection, the PhD Candidates will be part of a prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network “MITIME: Migration and Time in Post-industrial Urban Europe” (see details here MITIME) together with other 14 PhD candidates. MSCA Doctoral Network aims to train early-stage researchers through international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral doctoral training. Successful candidates will conduct original research on migration, temporality, and urban inequality and participate in all network-wide training and mobility activities. Other PhD positions are open in one of the network’s seven partner universities in Belgium, Finland, Germany, Ireland, Spain and Türkiye.

Being part of MITIME Network brings the following benefits:

• • A prestigious PhD position within a dynamic network of universities and societal partners in migration and urban studies.
• • A comprehensive training programme combining theoretical courses, advanced methods, and transferable skills.
• • Joint supervision by leading academic experts from two universities with interdisciplinary guidance and intellectual support.
• • International and intersectoral secondments to non-academic and institutional partners across Europe.
• • Strong career-development opportunities across academic, public, and private sectors.
• • Structured mentoring, leadership training, and professional development.

Job description
PhD candidate is expected to do the following:

• • Conduct interdisciplinary and collaborative research on the topic governance of migration temporality
• • Develop a concrete and feasible research project fitting overarching theme, resulting in defence of the PhD dissertation at the end of the 4th year
• • Conduct qualitative fieldwork as part of the PhD project
• • Contribute to general MITIME collective research, dissemination and various network events
• • Participate in the training activities (workshops, summer schools) offered by both MITIME network and the ESSB faculty
• • Spend at least 3-months at the University of Deusto in Bilbao (secondment)
• • Contribute to scholarly publications in academic journals