"Student-Assistant Health Law"

Are you an enthusiastic student and do you want to be involved and support the research and teaching of the Law Centre for Health and Life? Join our team!

For the Law Centre for Health and Life in the Faculty of Law, we are looking for an enthusiastic student assistant for research support.

What will you do
Your core tasks in this position will include a combination of the following:
- Support in the research of the Centre, particularly of drs. Katrina Perehudoff and James Hazel, including research tasks, formatting of research reports and/or assistance with transcribing/coding of expert interviews;
- Assistance developing and managing Bachelors of Law course materials;
- Support in setting up the organization/events, mailing lists, and contacts of a new consortium/programme of research.

What do we require
For this position we require that you are:
- Interested, or a student in Health Law;
- Interested, or a student in European Law or Public International Law;
- Experience using social science research methods is welcome;
- Available through the end of August 2025;
- A clear communicator in English, knowledge of Dutch is preferred;
- Able to work independently on projects and play a coordinating role in a team.

What do we offer
We offer you a challenging and diverse position in an ambitious environment. The position is for minimum 6 hours and maximum 16 hours per week, with a start date as soon as possible. The vacancy may be filled by more than one candidate depending on suitability. The salary amounts to a minimum of €3,084 and a maximum of €3,141 gross per month (salary scale SA, CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten) based on full-time employment (38 hours). The UvA also offers extensive secondary employment benefits, including 8% vacation pay and 8.3% year-end bonus. The CAO Nederlandse Universiteiten applies.

About us
The Law Centre for Health and Life strives to understand how law, regulation, and policy impact health, and how health in turn impacts law and policy. The Centre works from a strong foundation in bioethical values and fundamental rights. The Centre’s work impacts multiple levels of society by supporting innovative legal solutions at local, national, European and international level that protect vulnerable citizens in the face of public, medical, and industrial powers in the field of health and environmental health challenges. The Law Center for Health and Life is founded on curiosity-driven research, autonomy, and academic freedom. The Centre fosters an inclusive academic environment with diverse disciplinary knowledge and skill sets from a range of legal fields. In our work we connect with other disciplines such as (bio)medicine, environmental sciences, public health and epidemiology, policy and governance, political science, anthropology and sociology, economics, and other fields. The Law Centre for Health & Life seeks new knowledge through the use of multi- and interdisciplinary research methods. The Law Center for Health and Life achieves its goals through: High impact research that the Centre disseminates to audiences within and beyond the legal world with legal findings relevant to their spheres of work; Societal connection by engaging closely with key stakeholders in the field of health and health-related policy; Education excellence by connecting groundbreaking research to teaching in the newly accredited UvA Master Programme on Health Law and through contributions to (interdisciplinary) health and law programs within the UvA.

Applications in .pdf should include: a cover letter, CV, and list of your university grades. For questions about the position or the department, please contact: Katrina Perehudoff, James W. Hazel.