Job description
PhD position, full time
Deadline for applications: March 22nd 2023. Position will start September 1st 2023.
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The Netherlands currently has Europe´s worst performance in foreign sustainability trade-offs to least developed countries. The huge Dutch imports of raw materials and goods have had profound consequences for economic, social, and ecological developments elsewhere on the planet. These trade-offs have historical origins. From the nineteenth century onwards, scientific knowledge, colonial developments and industrial modernization contributed to the development of transnational production chains. These connected the Netherlands with the rest of the world.
Eindhoven University of Technology is offering a PhD position on Netherlands’ Global Entangled History of Edible Oils. The PhD candidate will study how from the nineteenth century onwards, scientific knowledge, colonial developments and industrial modernization contributed to the development of transnational production chains of edible oils, fats and protein. These connected the Netherlands agriculture, food and pharmaceutical industries with the rest of the world. This historical study analyses the developments and provides perspectives for contemporary initiatives in the protein and food transitions.
The PhD candidate will be part of the project Sustainability Trade-offs in the Netherlands’ Entangled Modernisation (STONEM). The project studies the historical developments of Dutch imports of raw materials and goods have and its profound consequences for economic, social, and ecological developments elsewhere on the planet.
The project is funded by Dutch Science foundation NWO and is a collaboration of Eindhoven University of Technology, Utrecht University, Wageningen University and Netherlands Statistics (CBS).
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