Wageningen University & Research (WUR), in collaboration with Tilburg University (TiU) in the Netherlands, is looking for hardworking and enthusiastic scholars wanting to do a PhD on the challenges that tourism poses in an Antarctic context.

The PhD projects are part of the PROACT - programme funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) entitled Proactive Management of Antarctic Tourism: Exploring the Role of Antarctic Treaty System (ATS) Principles and Values and Best Practices Beyond the ATS. The consortium is comprised of TiU, Utrecht University and WUR. The objective of the consortium is to develop knowledge for strengthening the proactive management of tourism within the ATS on four themes, each covered by a PhD or post-doc project:
regulating visitor numbers by a cap-and-trade system (PhD, WUR);
constraining diversification of activities by pre-assessment procedures (PhD, WUR/TU);
improving domestic implementation of ATS tourism regulations (PhD, TU); and
enhancing the role of non-use and non-user States (PostDoc, UU).