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Faculty of Economics and Business The Faculty of Economics and Business offers an inspiring study and working environment for students and employees. International accreditation enables the Faculty to assess performance against the highest international standards. It also creates an exciting environment of continuous improvement. FEB's programmes, academic staff and research do well on various excellence ranking lists.

FEBRI, the graduate school and research institute of the Faculty of Economics and Business has one PhD position in the field of Recipes for local and regional economic development across Europe available. Project description Reducing regional economic disparities is one of the European Union’s core foundational aims, yet inequality persists. This project investigates the reasons for these regional disparities and seeks to offer recommendations on how the EU's core regional policy can be structured to address these issues. This relates to themes such as cross-regional collaboration, interregional alliances, and smart specialization. To illustrate, although regions’ specialization strategies aim to identify their core strengths and focus policy towards them, they currently lead to mimicry of Europe’s core regions. A more contextually sensitive approach that prioritizes growth paths has the power to unlock growth and develop regional opportunity ‘recipes’ in both the core, and periphery of the EU.

The PhD position is embedded in the research programme Innovation & Organization of FEB’s Research Institute. We offer a truly international environment (our working language is English and we currently employ more than 15 different nationalities). The project will be supervised by Prof. Florian Noseleit, Dr Daniël Speldekamp, and Dr Benito Giordano. The supervisory team has a track record of publishing in leading academic journals. Qualifications The ideal candidate is ambitious, highly motivated and wishes to make a career in research at a leading university, and/or in a high-level professional role where a PhD is advantageous. The project allows for both a qualitative and quantitative approach (or mix thereof), and it is important that the candidate has a strong analytical mindset and is thoroughly trained in at least one of these general methods. Furthermore, it is essential that the candidate speaks and writes English fluently, has an international orientation, and has obtained or is close to finishing their Master’s degree with excellent results.

The PhD candidate should have a background in economics, economic geography, human geography, political science, international business or a related field (such as strategic management, planning, urban studies). In addition, the candidate should have a keen interest in regional economic development and policy. Conditions of employment We offer you in accordance with the Collective Labour Agreement for Dutch Universities:

A gross monthly salary from a minimum of € 2,770 which increases yearly to a maximum of € 3,539. Based on the gross salary you will receive an additional 8% holiday allowance each year in May, and an additional 8.3 % end of year bonus in December.

A temporary full-time appointment for a period of four years, under the condition of a positive assessment at the end of the first year. PhD candidates contribute 20% of their time to teaching in years 2-4.

Starting date: Preferably per September 1, 2024

An assessment may be part of the procedure, consisting of psychological tests and an interview. Application The application package consists of the following separate documents

A motivation letter (1A4 max).

Your cv.

Your Master’s thesis.

A scan of your diploma including transcripts

Other relevant documents.

Documents 1 through 4 are compulsory. Please note that incomplete application packages will not be taken into account.

If you are interested, you can apply until 26 June 11:59pm / before 27 June 2024 Central European Time (CEST) by means of the application form (click on "Apply" below on the advertisement on the university website).

The University of Groningen strives to be a university in which students and staff are respected and feel at home, regardless of differences in background, experiences, perspectives, and identities. We believe that working on our core values of inclusion and equality are a joint responsibility and we are constructively working on creating a socially safe environment. Diversity among students and staff members enriches academic debate and contributes to the quality of our teaching and research. We therefore invite applicants from underrepresented groups in particular to apply. For more information, see also our diversity policy webpage:

https://www.rug.nl/(...)rsity-and-inclusion/

Our selection procedure follows the guidelines of the Recruitment code (NVP):

https://www.nvp-hrnetwerk.nl/nl/sollicitatiecode

and European Commission's European Code of Conduct for recruitment of researchers:

https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/charter/code

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For more general information,

febphdvacancies@rug.nl

Daniël Speldekamp (for more information on this specific project),

d.speldekamp@rug.nl

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