PhD Candidate: Land Tenure Security for Refugees and Host Communities in Uganda

The

Nijmegen School of Management (NSM)

is an academic centre of research and higher education at Radboud University, focusing on institutional and managerial issues concerning complex organisations in both the public and private domains. It covers seven disciplines: Business Administration, Public Administration, Political Science, Economics and Business Economics, Social and Political Sciences of the Environment, Human Geography, and Spatial Planning. NSM strives for a multidisciplinary approach whenever relevant. 

The PhD is embedded in the Doctoral School of the interdisciplinary

Institute for Management Research (IMR)

. The IMR research programme is built around 6 multidisciplinary research themes linked to scientifically and societally relevant strategic issues: European policy, gender and diversity, international conflicts and policy, entrepreneurship and innovation, integrated decision making, and governance and innovations in social services. Research groups working on these themes consist of researchers from different disciplines and are organized in so-called hotspots. For this PhD Candidate position the assigned, and sponsoring, hotspot is Global - Local Divides and Connections (GLOCAL).

The PhD candidate will be based at the Centre of International Conflict Analysis and Management (CICAM) of the Political Science department, but will participate in the teams and activities of the departments of both Political Science and Geography, Planning and Environment.

Political Science currently comprises five Chairs: Empirical Political Science, Political Theory, International Relations, Contesting Europeanisation, and Conflict Studies. Together these chairs offer Bachelor’s degree programmes in political science and conflict studies and seven Master’s tracks, each leading to a Master’s degree in political science. The educational programme is characterised by small-scale teaching and provides a stimulating learning environment with an emphasis on the development of academic skills. Research in political science focuses on issues of legitimacy and institutional change and is organised around two themes: Conflict at the Crossroads of the Global and National and Sustainable Democracy.

Geography, Planning and Environment has three Chair groups: Social Geography, Spatial Planning and Environment, and Politics. The department’s research programme explores the interaction between space, environment and society, from complementary perspectives rooted in Political, Economic and Cultural Geography, Urban Planning and Urban Economics, and Environmental Politics and Environmental Sociology. Empirical themes of research include: international migration, climate change, cross-border issues, regional and urban development, mobility and transport, water management, grass roots initiatives on sustainability issues, and land use planning and governance.