🚨 PhD Opportunity Alert! Passionate about Citizen Science & participatory environmental governance? 2 fully funded PhD positions in my team at IHE Delft Institute for Water Education Delft, focused on the institutionalization of #citizenscience in environmental governance via transformative change processes. Drawing on selected more4nature & CitiObs case studies, the positions will focus on: 🔍 PhD #1: TRUST dynamics Explore how #trust between civil society and institutional actors is built, challenged, and reshaped in transformatice change processes towards collaborative environmental compliance assurance. ⚖️ PhD #2: JUSTICE dynamics Investigate how procedural, recognitional, and epistemic #justice play a role in—and are activated by—transformative changes in environmental compliance assurance. You'll be supervised by myself, Neha Mungekar, and colleagues from CWTS | Leiden University Thomas Franssen, Tjitske Holtrop, and Ingeborg Meijer. 🌱 Ideal candidates will bring not only strong academic potential, but also practical experience and/or Action Research in one or more of the following: - Citizen science - Policy or political processes - Environmental compliance assurance ⏰ Deadline to apply: 11 June 2025 This is a unique opportunity to be part of a growing community rethinking the role of citizens and communities in #environmentalgovernance and undertaking research on how to advance the institutionalization of citizen science at different governance levels. 📩 Feel free to reach out with questions or share this with someone who should see it! https://www.un-ihe.org/working-ihe-delft