Sustainability & Development
Research Internships in the field of Sustainability and Development focus on the challenges presented by the need to find ways in which consumption, usage, production, recycling and reusage can be brought in line with current societal needs. The Research Internships included in this category are being provided by municipalities, non-governmental public-private bodies, and occasionally also by companies.
"Tobacco playbook"
An interdisciplinary team of LU researchers, together with research bureau Solid Sustainability and campaign group Reclame Fossielvrij aim to learn lessons from the history of the tobacco industry and its relationship with academia which can be applied to other harmful industries such as chemical and fossil industries, in order to promote public health and sustainability.
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* City of The Hague/ Port of Scheveningen: Coastal Challenges
The Port of Scheveningen invites student researchers to work on the diverse spatial engagements. How can the uses and interpretations of ‘space’ by different stakeholders create a foundation for the development of sustainable development in line with the UN SDGs?
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* Valuing Water and Culture(s)
Although often seen as a purely technical field, water management has always been embedded in social, cultural, and spatial practices. Understanding the embedded nature of water in space, culture, and society can help us to redeploy historic systems and the heritage of past water management as part of sustainable development.
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* Moralities of Taxes in The Netherlands
The Dutch tax administration (Belastingdienst) needs to know how tax payers experience and evaluate the Dutch tax administration. What do people think of their services? How do people’s tax morales (the motivation to pay taxes) differ and does this change? Questions such as these focus on the legitimacy and functioning of taxes in The Netherlands and are measured in an annual survey and presented, by the Belastingdienst, in the Fiscale Monitor.
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* Willows in the Dutch polder
What will the Dutch polder landscape look like in the future? Ecologists and social scientists, in collaboration with farmers and citizens, are trying to answer this question in Polderlab VrouwVenne just outside of Leiden.
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* Research-Driven Internships (sponsored) in Port City Regions in Ghana and Morocco
n the academic year 2024-2025, the project 'Sea-ing Africa: Tracing Legacies and Engaging Future Promises of 'Big' Infrastructure Projects in Port City Regions in Ghana and Morocco' will be pleased to host students from all three tracks of the MSc Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology and from the MA African studies. A total of ten students can be selected, five for carrying out their fieldwork project in Ghana, five in Morocco.
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