项目介绍

2024年11月21日

Your function

The TEDIP Project
The Sociology Department of Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam seeks a PhD student to contribute to the TEDIP project: The Effectivenessof Diversity& Inclusion Policies. The TEDIP project (2024) is funded by an Open Competition Grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and is led by Prof. Dr. Maurice Crul.

The PhD student will join the Identities, Diversity and Inclusion research programme which is one of five research programmes within the sociology department (https://vu.nl/en/about-vu/faculties/faculty-of-social-sciences/more-about/research-sociology).

The TEDIP project looks at how public organizations are working towards more representation and inclusion of ethnic diversity within the workplace. Although an increasing number of organizations, both public and private, have developed Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) policies, questions remain about their effectiveness: Do these policies achieve their intended outcomes? Equally important is how we measure the success of D&I policies.

The project aims to tackle these critical questions by focusing on Higher Education institutions and City Administrations, with two case studies in the cities of Rotterdam and Amsterdam. The project will focus on developing measurement tools for D&I policy success in terms of equal representation and workplace inclusion. TEDIP will also examine the characteristics of successful organizational units and synthesize these into a theoretical framework, providing a foundation for evidence-based refinement of D&I policies.

The PhD researcher will work closely with the Principal Investigator and other team members, conducting fieldwork through surveys and qualitative interviews within selected organizational units in Amsterdam and Rotterdam. The candidate is expected to develop her/his/their PhD project, write 4 single and/ or co-authored papers in peer-reviewed journals on the project findings, contribute to the conceptual papers, and assist in creating measurement tools.

Your profile

Candidates should have the following credentials:

• A completed Research Master’s in Social Sciences;
• Experience in survey data collection;
• Experience with qualitative data collection;
• A good research and publication record relevant to their career stage;
• The ability and commitment to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team environment;
• Excellent written and spoken Dutch;
• Proficiency in written and spoken English.

Requirements:

Candidates should have the following credentials:

• Participate in the preparation and collection of qualitative interviews;
• Participate in the preparation and collection of the TEDIP survey;
• Fully participate in TEDIP project activities and publications in collaboration with team members;

• Develop an independent PhD project within the scope of TEDIP and complete the dissertation within four years;
• Participate in international conferences, workshops, seminars and other scholarly activities.
• Join the Graduate School of the Faculty of Social Sciences.
• Contribute to teaching within the sociology department (5%).