2 Phd Candidates at Utrecht University

The Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science of Utrecht University offers two positions for PhD candidates (0.8 FTE, five years) as part of the research project “Socioeconomic inequalities in health & health behaviours – a systems approach”. The project is supported by an NWO Vidi Grant and will be conducted by Carlijn Kamphuis, two PhD students and a postdoc (who will be hired when the project is a few years on its way).

Socioeconomic inequalities in health represent a major scientific and societal challenge. In the Netherlands, low socioeconomic groups die on average five years earlier, and live fourteen more years with diseases and disabilities, than high socioeconomic groups. Also, unhealthy behaviours (like smoking and physical inactivity) are more prevalent among low socioeconomic groups. The overall aim of the project is to understand how multiple, time-varying, interlinked environmental conditions, in interaction with individual factors, contribute to socioeconomic inequalities in health and health -behaviours, by applying an interdisciplinary systems approach.

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2 Phd Candidates at Utrecht University