Jobid=f5cc894d25f8 (0.028)
PHD Position Social Innovation Initiatives in Rural Areas
Naam functie Content creator
Postcode en/of plaats 9712CP GRONINGEN
Uren per week 0 – 0 Uur per week
Soort contract Tijdelijk
Startdatum
PhD position Social Innovation Initiatives in Rural AreasPhD PhD position Social Innovation Initiatives in Rural AreasThe geography group of the Faculty of Spatial Sciences at the University of Groningen is looking for a talented and motivated PhD researcher to carry out a PhD project within the umbrella theme ‘Social Innovation Initiatives in Rural Areas’. This position is part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) programme EPHEMERAL.Faculty of Spatial SciencesClosing date: 15 december 2025PhD position Social Innovation Initiatives in Rural Areas are you going to do?Rural place change over time interacts with the rural entrepreneurial agency of rural inhabitants. Rural entrepreneurship often involves social and community components and rural visions and attitudes. This PhD project studies the impact of place on social innovation initiatives in depopulating rural areas, such as community led village shops, community-run services, and other forms of social enterprises. The project aims to identify factors modulating the visions, attitudes and decisions of social entrepreneurial actors, and how they affect and are affected by changing rural places. The results will present “profiles” of entrepreneurs according to their social and professional experiences and their life trajectories across rural and urban places. The results will provide new knowledge about the personal networks of key actors (local and external) in entrepreneurship initiatives and highlight the tangible and intangible resources that nurture rural entrepreneurship over the life-cycle. Findings will also explore how entrepreneurs and their networks evolve as rural places change, providing an original contribution in understanding how actors’ motivations and networks relate to their attachment to rural places. This will make it…
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