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Privacy Officer - Bureau/HuC - KNAW

Ben jij een nieuwsgierige en praktisch ingestelde privacy jurist met een goed afgestelde antenne en wil je een uitdagende en afwisselende baan in de inspirerende wereld van de wetenschap in het mooiste deel van Amsterdam? Solliciteer dan bij de Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW) naar de functie van Privacy Officer.

De afdeling Juridische Zaken, bestaande uit zes juristen, waaronder een senior Privacy Officer, zoekt voor het Privacy Office een jurist gespecialiseerd in privacywetgeving met minimaal een jaar ervaring.

Je zal samenwerken met de senior Privacy Officer, privacy coördinatoren, data stewards en onderzoekers van het bureau en de instituten van de KNAW. Een groot deel daarvan ten behoeve van het Huygens Instituut, het Meertens Instituut en het Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis (KNAW Humanities Cluster (HuC), in Amsterdam.

Juridische Zaken zit in het prachtige Trippenhuis in Amsterdam en voornoemde HuC-instituten zijn gevestigd in andere unieke locaties in Amsterdam (Centrum en Oost). Je zal ongeveer de helft van de tijd op het Trippenhuis en de andere helft bij de HuC-instituten werkzaam zijn.

Dit ga je doen
Bij het wetenschappelijk onderzoek dat bij deze instituten wordt verricht, komen zeer regelmatig privacyvraagstukken van verschillende aard aan de orde, vaak in een internationale context. Als Privacy Officer adviseer je hierover en ondersteun je bij de uitvoering van het privacy beleid.

Afhankelijk van je ervaring, het onderwerp en de complexiteit van een vraagstuk, pak je het vraagstuk zelfstandig of samen met je collega’s op. Je analyseert de vraagstukken, de betreffende wet- en regelgeving en jurisprudentie en je legt de juiste verbanden. Ten behoeve van de juiste uitvoering (compliance) van de privacywet- en regelgeving en het privacy beleid verricht je verschillende werkzaamheden, waaronder:

  • het bijhouden van en controleren van verwerkingsregisters en DPIA’s;
  • het in kaart brengen van potentiële privacy risico's en adviseren hoe die terug te brengen;
  • het adviseren over en opstellen van verwerkersovereenkomsten;
  • het signaleren van ontwikkelingen op het gebied van privacywet- en regelgeving;
  • het bijdragen aan de (verdere) ontwikkeling van het kennisniveau van het privacy beleid binnen de KNAW, en aan interne trainingen en voorlichtingscampagnes;
  • het opstellen en up-to-date houden van procedures, beleid en interne informatie.

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31-10-2025 KNAW
Postdoc Geurerfgoed

Dit ga je doen
Je gaat trans-disciplinair onderzoek uitvoeren op het gebied van sensorisch erfgoed. Je wordt een belangrijke spil in het ClickNL project Een Neus voor Erfgoed: Creatieve Technieken voor Onderzoek naar en Representatie van Geurerfgoed. In dit project, geleid door prof.dr. Inger Leemans, werken onderzoekers samen met creatief ontwerpers en parfumeurs om de geuren van het Friese platteland te onderzoeken en te representeren, en zo reuk een duidelijkere plek te geven binnen erfgoedbeleid. Je onderzoekt geurerfgoed via verschillende methodes: historisch onderzoek, taalkundig onderzoek, citizen science en ‘neuswijze’ analyses. Je wordt aangesteld bij het Meertens Instituut en gastonderzoeker bij de Fryske Akademy waar je ondersteund zal worden in het onderzoek naar historische geurtaal, geurplaatsen en geurgebruiken in Friesland. Samen met een creatief ontwerper en met experts op het gebied van immaterieel erfgoed zet je een vragenlijst uit en ga je in gesprek met erfgoedgemeenschappen om kennis over cultureel significante geuren te verzamelen. Je instrueert parfumeurs over de reconstructie van erfgoedgeuren. Je draagt actief bij aan het ontwerp van een tentoonstelling waarop de geuren kunnen worden gepresenteerd. Je publiceert de bevindingen.

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30-10-2025 KNAW
PhD candidate on irrigated agriculture in Indonesia at KITLV/KNAW

The Project

The project Tracing Evolutionary Pathways in Climate Adaptation in Southeast Asia (TRACE), a European Research Council-funded Advance Grant (ERC Adv) led by Prof. Diana Suhardiman and hosted by the KITLV in Leiden, is looking for four PhD candidates. The project investigates how evolutionary pathways in climate adaptation are created, sustained, and changed over time. Which actors and symbiotic relations connect various place-based knowledge systems and past knowledge (re)production processes with present and future adaptation strategies? Which institutions, local institutional rules, arrangements, and practices serve as cultural and institutional foundations (re)shaping climate adaptation practices over time? Which forces and conditions shape types of agency and political spaces of engagement that are crucial for the creation, sustenance, and reproduction of locally nested inter-scalar adaptive networks?

We address these questions by focusing on and collaborating with communities living in four interrelated socio-ecological systems in Southeast Asia. These socio-ecological systems are: 1) upland cultivation in Laos; 2) irrigated agriculture in Indonesia; 3) forest conservation in the Thai-Myanmar borderlands; and 4) sea nomads’ fishing territories in the Philippines. Each of the four PhD candidates will identify and trace evolutionary pathways in climate adaptation of one specific socio-ecological system.

The project, consisting of a Principal Investigator and two Postdoc researchers studying grassroots adaptation strategies, is now seeking 4 PhD candidates to join the team. Each PhD candidate will also engage with the respective country researcher team. This research project is led by KITLV in collaboration with various partners in the Global South including national universities and civil society organizations in Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, and the Philippines.

The Position: PhD candidate to work on irrigated agriculture in Indonesia
The 4 PhD candidates will carry out historical and/or ethnographic research to connect grassroots knowledge systems, cultural values, and agency shaping of the past, how they have evolved over time, and how they are translated to present and future adaptation strategies. With Southeast Asia as geographical focus, each PhD candidate will identify key knowledge systems and institutional nodes, and trace evolutionary pathways of local communities’ adaptation strategies, in specific socio-ecological systems. Treating climate adaptation as an integral part of livelihood (re)making, each PhD candidate will look at how processes of knowledge (re)production are embedded in existing power relations and power interplay and contribute to the development of transdisciplinary concepts and grassroots ontological frameworks in climate governance research.

What will you do?
Within the research project, you will work on your PhD research. You will address the project’s main research question of how evolutionary pathways of communities adaptation strategies are (re)shaped by the politics of knowledge reproduction, cultural values, and agency shaping. Your project contains a comprehensive literature review and will also involve extensive fieldwork (a total of 1 year) on irrigated agriculture in Indonesia. During this time, you will collaborate with country researchers by conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews, documenting oral histories, engaging in participant observation, collecting relevant written and audiovisual material, and/or employing other methods in which you are experienced (as outlined in your research proposal).

You will also collaborate within a team context, which includes four PhD candidates, a Principal Investigator, a Postdoctoral Researcher, and a Research Coordinator. This collaboration will involve the co-organization of academic and public events, both in the respective countries where your research take place and regionally as part of the project’s cross-learning process and regional network formation.

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23-10-2025 KNAW
PhD candidate on upland cultivation in Laos at KITLV/KNAW

The Project

The project Tracing Evolutionary Pathways in Climate Adaptation in Southeast Asia (TRACE), a European Research Council-funded Advance Grant (ERC Adv) led by Prof. Diana Suhardiman and hosted by the KITLV in Leiden, is looking for four PhD candidates. The project investigates how evolutionary pathways in climate adaptation are created, sustained, and changed over time. Which actors and symbiotic relations connect various place-based knowledge systems and past knowledge (re)production processes with present and future adaptation strategies? Which institutions, local institutional rules, arrangements, and practices serve as cultural and institutional foundations (re)shaping climate adaptation practices over time? Which forces and conditions shape types of agency and political spaces of engagement that are crucial for the creation, sustenance, and reproduction of locally nested inter-scalar adaptive networks?

We address these questions by focusing on and collaborating with communities living in four interrelated socio-ecological systems in Southeast Asia. These socio-ecological systems are: 1) upland cultivation in Laos; 2) irrigated agriculture in Indonesia; 3) forest conservation in the Thai-Myanmar borderlands; and 4) sea nomads’ fishing territories in the Philippines. Each of the four PhD candidates will identify and trace evolutionary pathways in climate adaptation of one specific socio-ecological system.

The project, consisting of a Principal Investigator and two Postdoc researchers studying grassroots adaptation strategies, is now seeking 4 PhD candidates to join the team. Each PhD researcher will also engage with the respective country researcher team. This research project is led by KITLV in collaboration with various partners in the Global South including national universities and civil society organizations in Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, and the Philippines.

The Position: PhD candidate to work on upland cultivation in Laos
The 4 PhD candidates will carry out historical and/or ethnographic research to connect grassroots knowledge systems, cultural values, and agency shaping of the past, how they have evolved over time, and how they are translated to present and future adaptation strategies. With Southeast Asia as geographical focus, each PhD candidate will identify key knowledge systems and institutional nodes, and trace evolutionary pathways of local communities’ adaptation strategies, in specific socio-ecological systems. Treating climate adaptation as an integral part of livelihood (re)making, each PhD candidate will look at how processes of knowledge (re)production are embedded in existing power relations and power interplay and contribute to the development of transdisciplinary concepts and grassroots ontological frameworks in climate governance research.

What will you do?
Within the research project, you will work on your PhD research. You will address the project’s main research question of how evolutionary pathways of communities adaptation strategies are (re)shaped by the politics of knowledge reproduction, cultural values, and agency shaping. Your project contains a comprehensive literature review and will also involve extensive fieldwork (a total of 1 year) on upland cultivation in Laos. During this time, you will collaborate with country researchers by conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews, documenting oral histories, engaging in participant observation, collecting relevant written and audiovisual material, and/or employing other methods in which you are experienced (as outlined in your research proposal).

You will also collaborate within a team context, which includes four PhD candidates, a Principal Investigator, a Postdoctoral Researcher, and a Research Coordinator. This collaboration will involve the co-organization of academic and public events, both in the respective countries where your research take place and regionally as part of the project’s cross-learning process and regional network formation.

4 applications
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23-10-2025 KNAW
PhD candidate on sea nomads' fishing territories in the Philippines at KITLV/KNAW

The Project
The project Tracing Evolutionary Pathways in Climate Adaptation in Southeast Asia (TRACE), a European Research Council-funded Advance Grant (ERC Adv) led by Prof. Diana Suhardiman and hosted by the KITLV in Leiden, is looking for four PhD candidates. The project investigates how evolutionary pathways in climate adaptation are created, sustained, and changed over time. Which actors and symbiotic relations connect various place-based knowledge systems and past knowledge (re)production processes with present and future adaptation strategies? Which institutions, local institutional rules, arrangements, and practices serve as cultural and institutional foundations (re)shaping climate adaptation practices over time? Which forces and conditions shape types of agency and political spaces of engagement that are crucial for the creation, sustenance, and reproduction of locally nested inter-scalar adaptive networks?

We address these questions by focusing on and collaborating with communities living in four interrelated socio-ecological systems in Southeast Asia. These socio-ecological systems are: 1) upland cultivation in Laos; 2) irrigated agriculture in Indonesia; 3) forest conservation in the Thai-Myanmar borderlands; and 4) sea nomads’ fishing territories in the Philippines. Each of the four PhD candidates will identify and trace evolutionary pathways in climate adaptation of one specific socio-ecological system.

The project, consisting of a principal investigator and two Postdoc researchers studying grassroots adaptation strategies, is now seeking 4 PhD candidates to join the team. Each PhD candidate will also engage with the respective country researcher team. This research project is led by KITLV in collaboration with various partners in the Global South including national universities and civil society organizations in Laos, Indonesia, Thailand, Myanmar, and the Philippines.

The Position: PhD candidate to work on sea nomads’ fishing territories in the Philippines
The 4 PhD candidates will carry out historical and/or ethnographic research to connect grassroots knowledge systems, cultural values, and agency shaping of the past, how they have evolved over time, and how they are translated to present and future adaptation strategies. With Southeast Asia as geographical focus, each PhD candidate will identify key knowledge systems and institutional nodes, and trace evolutionary pathways of local communities’ adaptation strategies, in specific socio-ecological systems. Treating climate adaptation as an integral part of livelihood (re)making, each PhD candidate will look at how processes of knowledge (re)production are embedded in existing power relations and power interplay and contribute to the development of transdisciplinary concepts and grassroots ontological frameworks in climate governance research.

What will you do?
Within the research project, you will work on your PhD research. You will address the project’s main research question of how evolutionary pathways of communities adaptation strategies are (re)shaped by the politics of knowledge reproduction, cultural values, and agency shaping. Your project contains a comprehensive literature review and will also involve extensive fieldwork (a total of 1 year) on sea nomads’ fishing territories in the Philippines. During this time, you will collaborate with country researchers by conducting in-depth semi-structured interviews, documenting oral histories, engaging in participant observation, collecting relevant written and audiovisual material, and/or employing other methods in which you are experienced (as outlined in your research proposal).

You will also collaborate within a team context, which includes four PhD candidates, a Principal Investigator, a Postdoctoral Researcher, and a Research Coordinator. This collaboration will involve the co-organization of academic and public events, both in the respective countries where your research take place and regionally as part of the project’s cross-learning process and regional network formation.

9 applications
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23-10-2025 KNAW