Postdoctoral Researcher: Urban-Ocean Nexus

The project background
The blue economy is increasingly vital for maritime countries such as Indonesia and the Netherlands. The ocean supports diverse functions, including biodiversity conservation, carbon sink, energy production, fisheries, aquaculture, transportation, and tourism. Proponents emphasize the benefits of a diversified blue economy for achieving multiple Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Critics, however, contend that the blue economy leads to new territorial and resource conflicts, displacements of coastal communities, and degradation of ecosystems because of the increased infrastructure development. Both arguments fail to recognize that maritime countries such as Indonesia and the Netherlands have been urbanizing, with blue economy development and urbanization processes intricately linked, coshaping urban and blue frontiers in the coastal and offshore spaces.

As urbanization expands the seaward frontier of infrastructure development and blue economy development causes landward flows of materials and people, this project conceptualizes a novel, ‘urban-ocean’ nexus to assess the impacts of the urban and blue frontier development and to align marine spatial planning and urban planning in coastal and offshore areas. Specifically, the project applies this urban-ocean nexus to coastal and offshore areas of the Makassar Strait in Kalimantan in Indonesia and the North Sea off the Netherlands’ coast. The overall objectives of the project include: (1) to map and assess seaward and landward impacts of urban and blue infrastructure development on coastal and marine environments and territories; (2) to develop and apply a practical model to address the impacts and establish synergies between marine spatial planning and urban planning; and (3) to create a platform of co-creation and exchange of knowledge and experiences between researchers, students, and practitioners to design desirable urban and ocean governance arrangements. Through an inter-and-transdisciplinary approach and based on a well-established Indonesian-Dutch research consortium, this project contributes to multiple SDGs while advancing the Indonesian Vision 2045 and Blue Economy Roadmaps of Indonesia and the Netherlands.

Within this Urban-Ocean Nexus project, the postdoctoral researcher will lead a work package on “social impacts of the urban-blue frontier expansion in Indonesia and the Netherlands”. The researcher will focus on the issue of social inclusions and the changing water and society relationship due to the urban-blue frontier expansion. The central questions are: how do relations between water and society change, and how can we frame an instrumental understanding of water vis-à-vis the rights of nature? Furthermore, how does such an emic, cultural understanding of water and vegetation vary among different social groups, and how should they be included in outlining new forms of governance to establish alternative visions of the blue economy? The researcher is expected to perform well in the large international research consortium, both collaboratively and independently while mentoring the project’s PhD researcher and master students who will conduct research within the project. Your specific tasks include:

• Conducting field research in collaboration with other researchers in the project in Indonesia and the Netherlands;
• Actively organizing meetings in international conferences and symposiums and workshops to set the research agenda with wider groups of colleagues;
• Publishing the research results in international academic journals;
• Engaging in impact activities to expand our networks of societal partners, expose our research to wider public, and embed the research result in policy-making and advocacy activities;
• Conceiving new research proposals;
• Teaching relevant master and bachelor courses and supervising student thesis projects at the IDS section (max. 10% of the appointment).

Internship Paard

Ben je dierenarts en wil je je verdiepen in de geneeskunde van het paard binnen een academische en klinisch hoogwaardige omgeving? Dan biedt een internship bij de Universiteitskliniek voor Paarden je een unieke kans om intensieve praktijkervaring op te doen, klinisch onderwijs te geven en te werken met geavanceerde faciliteiten en een multidisciplinair team van specialisten. We hebben in het voorjaar van 2027 twee posities. Afhankelijk van je interesse gebied ligt het zwaartepunt van je internship bij de inwendige ziekten, of bij de orthopedie-chirurgie-anesthesie.

Geef in je motivatie daarom duidelijk aan wat je interessegebied is, Inwendige Ziekten of Heelkunde-Anesthesie.
Als intern ben je overdag vooral werkzaam binnen het team van het interessegebied van jouw keuze. Daarnaast ben je, uiteraard na een inwerkperiode, tijdens avond- en nachtdiensten kliniekbreed inzetbaar over alle afdelingen (Heelkunde, Anesthesie, Inwendige Ziekten, Voortplanting en Ambulante Kliniek). Op momenten dat dat nodig is zal je ook overdag op de andere afdelingen meewerken.

Na de dagelijkse overdracht door de specialisten speel je een centrale rol in het operationeel functioneren van de afdeling Inwendige Ziekten of Heelkunde en Anesthesie. Je vervult tevens een belangrijke rol in de begeleiding en supervisie van masterstudenten, zowel tijdens klinische werkzaamheden als binnen het klinisch onderwijs.

Je taken bestaan onder andere uit:

• Actieve deelname aan stalrondes, consulten en opgenomen patiënten.
• Uitvoeren van veelvoorkomende klinische handelingen, zoals het plaatsen van infusen, sonderen, medicatietoediening en verbandwissels
• Coördinatie en logistiek van diagnostiek, waaronder laboratoriummonsters en beeldvormende onderzoeken
• Begeleiding van masterstudenten Diergeneeskunde bij klinische vaardigheden en patiëntenzorg
• Tijdens avond- en nachtdiensten ben je verantwoordelijk voor de eerste opvang en stabilisatie van spoedpatiënten, de behandeling van stalpatiënten, en de begeleiding van dienstdoende studenten

We beschikken over ultramoderne faciliteiten, waaronder uitgebreide opnamevoorzieningen en geavanceerde beeldvormingstechnieken zoals MRI, CT en radiodiagnostiek. Daarnaast is er een uitgebreid programma van baanbrekend klinisch-wetenschappelijk onderzoek.

Vicevoorzitter College van Bestuur

Bekijk de volledige vacature en solliciteer via de website van Perrett Laver.

Internship Paard

Are you a veterinarian looking to deepen your knowledge of equine medicine within an academic environment that upholds high clinical standards? An internship at the University Equine Clinic offers a unique opportunity to gain intensive practical experience, provide clinical instruction, and work with state-of-the-art facilities alongside a multidisciplinary team of specialists. We have two positions available for the spring of 2027. Depending on your area of interest, the focus of your internship will be either Internal Medicine or Orthopedics/Surgery/Anesthesia.

Therefore, please clearly indicate your area of interest—Internal Medicine or Surgery/Anesthesia—in your motivation letter.
As an intern, you will primarily work during the day within the team corresponding to your chosen area of interest. Additionally, following an initial orientation period, you will be deployed across all departments (Surgery, Anesthesia, Internal Medicine, Reproduction, and Ambulatory Clinic) during evening and night shifts. You will also assist in other departments during the day when necessary.

Following the daily handover by the specialists, you will play a central role in the operational functioning of the Internal Medicine or Surgery/Anesthesia department. You will also play an important role in guiding and supervising Master’s students, both during clinical work and within clinical education.

Your duties will include:

• Active participation in stable rounds, consultations, and the care of hospitalized patients.
• Performing routine clinical procedures, such as placing IV lines, catheterization, administering medication, and changing dressings
• Coordinating and managing the logistics of diagnostic procedures, including laboratory samples and diagnostic imaging.
• Supervising Veterinary Medicine master's students in clinical skills and patient care
• During evening and night shifts, you are responsible for the initial assessment and stabilization of emergency patients, the treatment of hospitalized patients, and the supervision of students on duty

We have state-of-the-art facilities at our disposal, including extensive hospitalization units and advanced imaging technologies such as MRI, CT, and diagnostic radiology. In addition, there is an extensive program of groundbreaking clinical research.

Assistant Professor in Economics

The Applied Economics section brings together researchers working in a large variety of areas of applied economics (e.g. public economics, behavioral economics, health economics, economics of crime, regional/urban economics, development economics, labour economics, economics of education, and other applied fields) with researchers working on the history, methodology, and/or philosophy of economics. Research and teaching in the section is typically empirical, policy-oriented, and sometimes multidisciplinary.

We welcome candidates from any field of applied economics. The position involves teaching in areas where economics is itself the object of study. These areas include the history of economics, economic history, philosophy of economics, and economic/econometric methodology, such as for example the courses “Contemporary Economics in Historical Perspectives” or “Ethical and Historical Reflections”. Candidates should explain in their cover letter how their research connects to these teaching areas.

The position includes 60% teaching time (including 5% governance), and 40% research time.

The candidate’s responsibilities will include:

• conducting high-quality research in economics or a closely related field;
• teaching undergraduate and graduate courses within U.S.E.;
• contributing to courses at U.S.E. in which economics is reflected upon (e.g. history of economic thought, philosophy of economics, economic methodology, or related themes) but also teach at the Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) programme to which U.S.E. contributes;
• engaging in interdisciplinary collaboration within Utrecht University, for example with the Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, a university-wide center that promotes critical reflection on academic disciplines, methods, and the role of knowledge in society.