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At Radboud University, we aim to make an impact through our work. We achieve this by conducting groundbreaking research, providing high-quality education, offering excellent support, and fostering collaborations within and outside the university. In doing so, we contribute indispensably to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all. To accomplish this, we need even more colleagues who, based on their expertise, are willing to search for answers. We advocate for an inclusive community and welcome employees with diverse backgrounds, cultures, and perspectives. Will you also contribute to making the world a little better? You have a part to play.
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At Nijmegen School of Management, one of the seven faculties within Radboud University in the Netherlands, we have a clear aim: we enable students, institutions and companies, social actors, and governments to play their part in the transformations towards a sustainable society through high-quality scientific research and education. With more than 4,500 curious students and more than 450 dedicated employees, we form a dynamic community.
Our mission ‘Responsible governance for sustainable societies’ is driven by the ambition to make a difference in the world. At Nijmegen School of Management, we understand management as a broad concept referring to the collective and organised pursuit (responsible governance) of a better world (sustainable societies). We study and teach management at the level of public and private organisations. In this context, we examine how to balance economic, ecological, and social values in a sustainable way. This aim is in line with Radboud University's mission to contribute through teaching and research to a ‘free, healthy world with equal opportunities for all’.
At Nijmegen School of Management, academic research and teaching are carried out in following areas: Business Administration, Economics and Business Economics, Political Science, Public Administration, Human Geography, Spatial Planning, and Environment. Our approach to teaching and research is evolving from multidisciplinarity, where we study societal challenges from different disciplinary backgrounds, to interdisciplinarity (integrating disciplinary perspectives for synergy) and transdisciplinarity (involving non-academic stakeholders).
The United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are an important source of inspiration for our work. Our work focuses on the themes Social economy, Resilient society and Sustainable environment. At Nijmegen School of Management, we have our eyes on the world of the future, in which sustainability and responsibility are central values. Together we are creating a better world for everyone.
Radboud University is looking for a PhD candidate to help plan future mobility and healthcare in an integrated way. The fully funded PhD position is part of the NWO-funded TRIAS project. This position is one of three PhD projects on the mobility and accessibility impacts of local and digital healthcare provision as part of an NWO-funded programme on mobility in a sustainable future.
Transport and healthcare sectors are strongly connected, but researchers, planners and practitioners hardly work together. This needs to change. Transport needs to become more sustainable, with fewer greenhouse gas emissions and less dependence on cars to travel. The digitalisation of the healthcare sector provides opportunities to deliver more local and digital healthcare and increase healthcare quality and efficiency. This can also benefit the transport sector. The provision of local and digital healthcare can reduce the need to travel and improve access to healthcare. However, to make this happen, stakeholders within the mobility and healthcare sectors must work together, and research, knowledge and tools are needed.
Decision-makers within the mobility and healthcare sectors are confronted with various uncertainties about future developments (e.g. future healthcare demand, transport options), future healthcare supply (e.g. personnel, centralisation/decentralisation of services, physical accessibility of healthcare services), outcomes of policies (e.g. adoption of e-healthcare, changes in healthcare funding), and future trade-offs among outcomes. Radboud University is looking for a PhD to work on a project on adaptive planning of future mobility and healthcare in an integrated way.
Our research project will involve collaboration between Radboud University, the University of Twente, Saxion University of Applied Sciences, and ten partners from the mobility and health domains. The research will be conducted in ‘field labs’ in the healthcare practice of the Connected Care Centre at Isala Hospital (Zwolle) and homecare organisation TWB (Roosendaal). In the field labs, integral mobility and healthcare capacity planning strategies will be tested, with the aim of delivering more local and digital healthcare for patient groups with varying characteristics and healthcare and mobility needs.
This fully-funded PhD project on Adaptive Management for Healthcare Accessibility focuses on decision-making in local and digital healthcare provision from a user perspective. It involves the development of a joint physical and digital healthcare accessibility decision support tool. It should give insight into the mobility, accessibility and well-being impacts of combinations of physical access to healthcare facilities (including hospital and local healthcare provision) and digital access (e.g. telemonitoring of patients at home, e-health services). Key aspects of healthcare accessibility to be examined include the needs of patients and healthcare staff, actual or perceived ease of reaching healthcare facilities, and the physical and digital possibilities of access to healthcare.
This PhD project will be conducted by the Methods Group, Department of Business Administration, Institute of Management Research, Radboud University. The project will be conducted in close collaboration with the other TRIAS PhD projects on (a) physical and digital healthcare accessibility, and (b) integrated mobility and healthcare capacity planning.
The Nijmegen School of Management enables students, institutions, companies, societal actors and governments to play their part in a transformation towards sustainable societies. In doing so, the faculty is committed to Radboud University's mission of contributing to a healthy, free world with equal opportunities for all.
In the context of our 'Responsible governance for sustainable societies' mission, we address scientific and societal challenges from a good governance perspective. Our work focuses on the topics Beyond Economy, Climate, Inclusivity, Safety, and Democracy. By building, questioning and extending the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), we acknowledge their interrelatedness and focus on a number of grand challenges within society. We contribute to innovation and sustainable growth on topics such as inequality, gender, decent work and poverty. Furthermore, we address environmental and climate challenges, seeking to contribute towards resolving them.
At the Nijmegen School of Management, academic research and teaching are carried out in challenging educational programmes. These programmes are offered in the areas of Business Administration; Economics and Business Economics; Geography, Planning and Environment; Political Science; and Public Administration. Academic research takes place within the Institute for Management Research (IMR). Research is carried out within the above-mentioned domains and in interdisciplinary research groups: the Hotspots. The Nijmegen School of Management currently has 400 FTE staff and around 5,000 students.
The intended thesis supervisors are Prof. V. Marchau and Dr S. Lenferink. The project is embedded within IMR in the context of other mobility and digital accessibility studies (On the Move, Triple Access Planning for Uncertain Futures). You will collaborate with the other academic and societal partners in the TRIAS consortium. You will become a member of the TRAIL Research School, and will be expected to attend relevant courses and activities.
You will become part of the Methods Group within the Department of Business Administration. This group of about 30 researchers focuses on developing and applying participatory decision support methods such as group model building, gaming, causal loop modelling, participatory scenario planning, and adaptive policymaking.
You can apply only via the button below. Address your letter of application to Prof. Vincent Marchau In the application form, you will find which documents you need to include with your application.
The first interviews will take place on 5 July. Any second interview will take place on 23 August. You will preferably start your employment on 1 September.
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Type of employment | Temporary position |
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Contract type | Full-time/Part-time |
First day of employment | 01-09-2024 |
Salary | Promovendus |
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Number of positions | 1 |
Full-time equivalent | 0,8 - 1,0 |
City | Nijmegen |
County | Gelderland |
Country | Netherlands |
Reference number | 27.007.24 |
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Published | 04.Jun.2024 |
Last application date | 25.Jun.2024 11:59 PM CEST |