Research Technician in Molecules & Materials

The research technician will be involved in current research topics, which include activities such as, among others, the synthesis of new building blocks for self-assemblies, molecules for surface functionalization and nanoscale and organic materials; analysis of such materials. The technician will also be involved in the support and maintenance of equipment, support of the NMR facility, and other general tasks for the department. The technician will also be involved in education (training of students and their supervision in practicals).

PhD Position JUST FUTURES: ReStor(y)ing (Un)just Land-Water Relationships Through Art-activism

You will develop a ‘rurban’ lens that examines past, present, and future rural-urban (dis)connections in the context of different cases of land-water relationships, including areas with recent (Twente region) and longer (Aruba) histories of experiencing water scarcity. By engaging with environmental art-activism, the project will "re-story" land-water relationships and potential rurban futures through the development of situated narratives that bring to the fore different more-than-human voices, including those often marginalised. To this end, you will develop an approach to engage humans and more-than-humans as actors, participants, stake- and knowledge holders (e.g., rivers, animals, microorganisms, fish, future generations, technology), and collaborate with artists and artistic residencies. Moreover, you will explore ways of harnessing the potential of art-activism for climate justice. Within the JUST ART project, collaborations are envisioned with diverse societal and cultural partners to support creative dissemination and public engagement strategies adapted to context. These may include an event (e.g., exhibition, performance, installation) at Rijksmuseum Twente and pop-up events at specific case study locations or in cultural / community centres to connect with local stakeholders, in Twente and Aruba.

While these are the overall objectives for the PhD position, the exact scope of the research is open and can be refined by the PhD candidate together with the supervisory team and in collaboration with the wider JUST ART community. This includes academic partners as well as a network of artists, cultural institutions and societal partners across the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

This PhD position is part of JUST ART. Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research - a six-year project on climate justice and artistic research in the Caribbean and European parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and led by the University of Groningen. It offers 10 fully funded PhD Positions at six universities in collaboration with Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and four universities of applied sciences. More information and links to all 10 PhD positions: www.justart.info

The complexity and scale of the climate crisis are overwhelming. Artistic practice and artistic research can open up new ways of understanding the intersectional dimensions of this crisis and empower people to act. Bringing together artists, researchers, campaigners and communities in rural and urban regions, JUST ART aims to cultivate diverse strategies of climate justice through artistic research and creative practice.

JUST ART PhD candidates will generate new knowledge and critically assess approaches that integrate scientific insights with artistic research to address climate justice. JUST ART PhDs will study and develop concrete cases to learn how art and artistic research can be embedded in ongoing and emerging work on climate justice. They will enhance expertise and skills to take artistic and art-based transformative action on climate justice and will contribute to theoretical frameworks, common methods, educational toolkits and knowledge sharing platforms in co-creation with project partners.

PhD Position JUST FUTURES: ReStor(y)ing Multispecies Futures Through Digital Media

Your research will engage critically and creatively with environmental data (e.g., pollution data, biodiversity surveys, citizen science data, fossil and natural history collections at Museumfabriek, Natura Docet or Artis). This includes questioning what counts as ‘relevant’ environmental data, adding a critical artistic dimension to current academic debates around the politics of knowledge co-production and scientific research. You will develop multi-sensory ways of encountering and envisioning future scenarios that use environmental data to give voice to diverse species in ways that reclaim technology and the digital as critical immersive artistic practice. To this aim, you will explore different typologies of 'rurban' spaces across the Twente region (e.g., where rural-urban relationships illustrate climate and/or biodiversity related injustices) and conduct artistic experimentation with data and code. The focus will be on making frictions and controversies characteristic of different ‘rurban’ spaces and practices publicly debatable in experiential ways to support collective imagination of biodiverse and climate just futures. By taking a multispecies perspective, your research will place a relational understanding of ecology at the center of future speculative / immersive scenarios, which will be exhibited in the form of multi-sensory participatory installations. These installations may be developed in collaboration with artistic residencies and cultural organisations like Tetem - Platform for Digital Culture and Making Culture in Twente.

While these are the overall objectives for the PhD position, the exact scope of the research is open and can be refined by the PhD candidate together with the supervisory team and in collaboration with the wider JUST ART community. This includes academic partners as well as a network of artists, cultural institutions and societal partners across the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

This PhD position is part of JUST ART. Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice Through Artistic Research - a six-year project on climate justice and artistic research in the Caribbean and European parts of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. The project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and led by the University of Groningen. It offers 10 fully funded PhD Positions at six universities in collaboration with Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO) and four universities of applied sciences. More information and links to all 10 PhD positions: www.justart.info

The complexity and scale of the climate crisis are overwhelming. Artistic practice and artistic research can open up new ways of understanding the intersectional dimensions of this crisis and empower people to act. Bringing together artists, researchers, campaigners and communities in rural and urban regions, JUST ART aims to cultivate diverse strategies of climate justice through artistic research and creative practice.

JUST ART PhD candidates will generate new knowledge and critically assess approaches that integrate scientific insights with artistic research to address climate justice. JUST ART PhDs will study and develop concrete cases to learn how art and artistic research can be embedded in ongoing and emerging work on climate justice. They will enhance expertise and skills to take artistic and art-based transformative action on climate justice and will contribute to theoretical frameworks, common methods, educational toolkits and knowledge sharing platforms in co-creation with project partners.

Assistant Professor Business Information Systems

We are looking for a scholar who is passionate about impact-driven research & teaching. They are able to demonstrably bridge enterprise architecture and digital strategy. Your work focuses on how organizations align strategic goals with enterprise-wide digital and architectural decisions, and how these decisions shape organizational agility, innovation, and long-term value creation.

Your research addresses topics such as the strategic design and evolution of enterprise architectures, digital platforms, and operating models; business–IT alignment; and the governance of digital transformation initiatives. You study how architectural choices enable or constrain strategic change, business model innovation, and collaboration in digital ecosystems.

You have an expertise in linking strategy to enterprise architecture, including areas such as enterprise architecture management, digital transformation, platform and ecosystem strategies, IT governance, and capability-based planning. You are familiar with both quantitative approaches (e.g., architecture- or strategy-based analysis, empirical studies of digital investment outcomes) and qualitative approaches (e.g., case studies, design science, or socio-technical analyses of strategic change).

Responsibilities

You contribute to research, teaching, and knowledge valorization. You will

• carry out high-tech business research, with a genuine interest in operating at crossroads of different subject areas;
• improve your home-based specific expertise and develop an interdisciplinary research line;
• contribute to our research and teaching ecosystem (e.g., by acquiring external research and innovation funding);
• (co-)teach and coordinate courses in our Bachelor and Master programs of Business & IT and International Business Administration;
• guide students from these programs in their graduation assignments;
• contribute to the supervision of PhD students.

Lecturer Communication Science

As a Lecturer in the Communication Science section, you will join a cohesive and collaborative team within the BMS faculty that is strongly committed to innovative and high-quality education. You will be a member of the Communication Science teaching staff and contribute to both our Bachelor’s and Master’s programmes through lectures, tutorials, project-based education, and the supervision of theses. In this role, you will actively support students in their academic and professional development and contribute to the ongoing innovation of our educational programmes. The lecturer will teach core communication science theories as well as academic, professional, and design-oriented skills within the BSc Communication Science modules. This includes teaching and supervising students in project-based courses, providing education in theories of corporate and human-technology interactions, and guiding students in the development of academic and professional skills such as academic writing, presenting, visualisation and design, and communicating effectively with diverse stakeholders. You will also be involved in supervising and assessing project assignments. In addition, the lecturer will supervise Bachelor’s and Master’s thesis projects, supporting students throughout their research process and helping them to translate theoretical insights into well-founded academic work. In carrying out these activities, you will collaborate closely

with colleagues to further develop and implement innovative teaching materials and learning activities that align with the evolving field of Communication Science