Key information
Duration
- Full-time
- 48 months
Start dates & application deadlines
- Starting September 2027
- Application deadline not specified.
Language
English
TOEFL iBT 100
Delivered
On Campus
Campus Location
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
Disciplines
- Political Science
Overview
As a Political Science PhD student at the University of Amsterdam's Institute for Social Science Research, you will be part of a vibrant community that values your growth and development.
We offer coaching, training, and a strong PhD Community to support you throughout your doctoral journey. We encourage our students to publish their research early in their careers, enhancing their academic profiles and fostering their future career prospects.
Research groups
Challenges to Democratic Representation
- The research program Challenges to Democracy studies the consequences of current political developments and their historical roots for democratic governance. How do democratic regimes maintain political stability? To what extent can they deliver political equality, legitimacy and prevent societal polarization?
Political Economy and Transnational Governance
- Ongoing trends towards transnational integration of markets and economic transactions are giving rise to far-reaching transformations of governance both within and beyond the nation-state.
- The Political Economy and Transnational Governance (PETGOV) programme group focuses on the drivers, dynamics, and consequences of these epochal developments in political and economic life.
Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
- In recent decades, there has been a growing divergence between the organisation of society and the inherited conceptual framework of the 20th century political sciences.
- The Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance group seeks to re-examine established notions of identities, categorizations and boundaries defined by classical political science concepts through different forms of empirical investigation.
Programme Structure
Research projects include:
- Reintegrate on Reintegration Governance
- Misrepresenting Diversity? Identity in Politics
- Generational Differences in Determinants of Party Choice
- Forced Migration and Resettlement During Civil Wars
- Monitoring Attitudes, Perceptions and Support for the Peace Process in Colombia
- Elections, Violence, and Parties
- Social Resilience, Gendered Dynamics, and Local Peace in Protracted Conflicts
- Geopolitical Economy of the Belt and Road Initiative and Its Reflections
- Citizengap: Legal Identity for All?
Admission requirements
Academic requirements
We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.
English requirements
TOEFL iBT 100
Other requirements
General requirements
- Doctoral research can only take place under the supervision of a professor associated with the UvA. You cannot take your application further until a professor has agreed to take you on as a PhD candidate.
- For admission to the doctoral programme you must have a Dutch Master's degree (or an old-style initial university degree). If you have a different Dutch qualification or a foreign qualification, you must apply for an exemption from the educational requirement before applying for admission.
Fees and funding
Tuition Fees
Additional Details
- may be funded
- PhD candidates who are not employed by the University but receive a scholarship pay a fee of €4,545 up to €15,000 annually
Living costs
Amsterdam, Netherlands
1,618-2,427 AUD / month
The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.
