About the programme

The PhD in Economic Policy & Public Administration is a three-year, full-time, English-taught doctoral programme based at the European Research University, Czech Republic in cooperation with ERUNI's European research colleges (London, Amsterdam, Rome, and Paris).

Our platform model aims to create a structured research environment featuring a portfolio of projects, team leadership, seminars focused on ongoing work, and clearly defined progress tracking. Supervisors are offered competitive remuneration of up to EUR 20.000 per PhD candidate per year, including performance-based bonuses tied mainly to the supervised candidate’s timely achievement of annual research, publication, and programme milestones.

Core programme features

• Team-based supervision (primary supervisor and second advisor),
• Regular work-in-progress seminars and internal peer review,
• Milestone-based progress monitoring (quarterly updates and an annual panel review),
• Opportunities for research mobility across our European Research Colleges.

Who we are looking for

We invite excellent supervisors / PIs research leaders who:

• Aim to supervise doctoral researchers in an internationally competitive, supportive research environment,
• Can integrate doctoral candidates into a concrete project and/or publication pipeline,
• Are willing to work within a structured programme framework with regular feedback and progress monitoring.

Projects must fall within Economic Policy & Public Administration. Indicative pillars include:

• Public finance, taxation, expenditure programmes, and policy evaluation,
• Labour, inequality, and social policy,
• Monetary and financial policy, regulation, macro-financial stability,
• Competition policy, market power, and productivity,
• Governance, public administration, and policy implementation,
• Trade, geopolitics, and policy risk.

What we expect

Selected supervisors will commit to a supervision model designed for quality and timely outputs:

• A project pitch or publication pipeline with a clear candidate role and deliverables,
• Team-based supervision and transparent shared responsibilities, aligned with recognized principles of quality doctoral education,
• Ongoing progress monitoring and timely feedback,
• Participation in platform activities, work-in-progress seminars, peer feedback.

What we offer

• No teaching load, no lecturing or course administration expected.
• Above-standard financial remuneration and milestone bonuses, linked to supervision quality and timely outputs (publication pipeline, project integration of candidates).
• Flexible engagement model: supervisors can be based at their home institution, the programme accommodates external/visiting arrangements.
• Access to high-calibre full-time doctoral candidates in an English-taught programme.
• Administrative and programme infrastructure: paperwork handled by the institution, regular seminars, internal peer review, and recognition of impactful supervision.

Candidate profile

We invite applications from candidates with:

• Scope fit (Economic Policy & Public Administration),
• Demonstrable research quality, originality, and feasibility (data/methods),
• Ability to create a publication pipeline and integrate the candidate into a project,
• Willingness to participate in structured supervision (team-based, monitoring, feedback).

Application materials

Please submit a single PDF containing:

1. Project Pitch (1–2 pages)

• Working title + scope fit,
• 1–3 research questions + contribution,
• Data/access/feasibility,
• Output plan (working papers, journal submissions, policy outputs),
• Doctoral candidate role (specific tasks → specific deliverables).

1. CV + up to 5 selected publications
2. Supervisory statement (max 1 page)

• Prior supervision/mentoring experience or motivation.

Timeline

• Applications accepted until 31 August 2026.

Programme start: October 2026

Contact and further information

sarka.laboutkova@eruni.org