PhD Scholarships in Economics & Business, University of Groningen, Netherlands (2017)

The aim of SOM’s PhD programme is to deliver highly qualified researchers. For this purpose, SOM offers PhD scholarships to excellent candidates who recently graduated. The programme for this type of scholarships covers four years (or three for students with a research master background) and leads to a PhD degree. These four years are spent on courses, writing research papers for the PhD thesis and on participation in international conferences, workshops and a career perspectives curriculum.

The PhD programme is embedded in the research institute SOM. The PhD scholarships will be made available for projects within one of the seven signature areas of SOM, namely
Connecting Innovation and Creativity: www.rug.nl/research/som-ri/signature-areas/connecting-innovation/
Digital Business Models: www.rug.nl/research/som-ri/signature-areas/digital-business-models/
Individual Health & The Economic Environment: www.rug.nl/research/som-ri/signature-areas/individual-health/
Board Effectiveness: www.rug.nl/research/som-ri/signature-areas/board-effectiveness/
Collective Resilience: www.rug.nl/research/som-ri/signature-areas/collective-resilience/
Inequality: www.rug.nl/research/som-ri/signature-areas/inequality/
Markets and Sustainability: www.rug.nl/research/som-ri/signature-areas/markets-sustainability/

Candidates are expected to contribute to the further development of the signature area and ideally contribute to the multidisciplinary nature of the SA’s.

All PhD candidates are supervised by at least two supervisors who are a fellow of SOM.

Requirements
The ideal candidate is ambitious, highly motivated and wishes to make a career in research. He or she has a thorough training in research skills, speaks and writes English fluently and has obtained excellent results in the master phase. Candidates should have a Master degree in Economicsor Business. or a master degree sufficiently related to research within one of our signature areas.

Further details:
http://www.academictransfer.com