Starting in 2020, Dorothea Hilhorst, professor of humanitarian studies of ISS will start a 5 year Programme, financed by an advanced grant of the European Research Council, to implement the research project ‘Humanitarian governance: accountability, advocacy, alternatives’. The project aims to develop a localized humanitarian studies program to understand ongoing changes in humanitarian governance and to explore and advance the spaces and strategies that have opened up for reform ‘from below’. As part of this research project, ISS is looking for 5 PhD candidates.