06 Postdoctoral Fellowship at Leiden University, Netherlands

The Van Vollenhoven Institute for Law, Governance and Society (VVI) seeks applicants for a Postdoctoral Researcher (0.8–1.0 FTE, 4 years) to join the DIGIFOOD Project—an ERC-funded interdisciplinary, transnational research initiative—exploring how data governance frameworks can support equitable food systems. 

DIGIFOOD investigates how emerging legal norms, institutional practices, and digital infrastructures affect small-scale food producers, peasants, and Indigenous communities across the Global South.The Postdoctoral Researcher will carry out original empirical research on the legal and socio-technical dimensions of agricultural data governance, contribute to theoretical development, and help lead a global team of PhD researchers conducting case studies in India, Kenya, and Colombia. 

eLaw – the Center for Law and Digital Technologies at Leiden University, is looking for a 22-month postdoctoral researcher with expertise in law and technology with an interest in digital vulnerability and platform regulation.

RESOCIAL (“User vulnerabilities and Resilience on SOCIAL media platforms and the metaverse: a sociolegal and design perspective”, an NWO-NWA Synergy Grant Project) seeks to identify, measure, and thereby mitigate human vulnerabilities on social media platforms (including the metaverse and immersive technologies), thereby fostering the resilience of their users. People increasingly live their social life online and experience new and/or amplified risks to their fundamental rights (e.g., manipulation, discrimination, stigmatisation). This is due to the asymmetry of power with the private sector governing online social media platforms and the underrepresentation of vulnerable users in key decision-making at the business level. This issue is amplified by the lack of scientific methods to measure risks to fundamental rights online, the inadequacy of the national and EU legislation to enhance the resilience of users, and the ineffective protection of vulnerable users online. This project will contribute to solving these issues through an interdisciplinary, participative, multi-stakeholder approach. Starting from four use cases of vulnerability (children, vulnerable consumers, vulnerable data subjects, victims of gender-based violence) and through many disciplinary lenses (children’s rights, consumer protection law, data protection law, gender studies, human rights and computer science), this project aims to measure human vulnerabilities on social media and to propose three clear and effective solutions to enhance the resilience of vulnerable groups online, namely: a legal solution (government guidelines for a vulnerability-aware implementation of the legislation on social media); a design solution (“vulnerability-sensitive design”); and a business-oriented solutions (vulnerability-aware codes of conduct for social media and the metaverse).

The main aim of this ERC TURNING VIOLENT research is to identify turning points towards one-sided violence in interpersonal conflicts. Projects will focus on conflicts between civilians or between police and civilians in Berlin, Paris or London. We will be using publicly available video data, complemented with video elicitation interviews. Please go to this page to read the full research proposal. 

We are seeking candidates with experience in video based ethnomethodological conversation analysis and multimodal analysis and who are comfortable working with qualitative research methods and video annotation tools (e.g. ELAN, NVivo, or similar). 

The postdoc will be embedded in a collaborative research team and contribute specifically to work focused on the role of public policy in shaping private sector investment in hydrogen technologies. This work builds on a categorization of policy instruments and investigates how specific regulatory and economic mechanisms incentivize (clusters of) firms to invest in hydrogen production, transport, and application, both at the EU level and within the Dutch context. The postdoc’s findings will contribute to understanding the interaction between investment behaviour of firms and regulatory design by government, inform the development of future scenarios for green hydrogen deployment, and support broader modelling efforts across the GroenvermogenNL programme. 

The post-doc will be appointed at the Department of Economics of the Leiden Law School, but the project is a collaboration between the Department of Economics and the Institute of Public Administration of the Faculty of Global Governance and Global Affairs of Leiden University. The selected post-doc will therefore be based at the the Hague office of the Department of Economics, on the fast growing campus of Leiden University in the center of the Hague. This allows close cooperation with colleagues from both the Department of Economics and colleagues from the Institute of Public Administration, which is also based in the Hague, and other stakeholders of GroenvermogenNL.