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The Development Research School invites applications to the new PhD course: “Governance and the Sustainable Development Goals”.
The course provides a critical introduction to the governance of sustainable development and the 2030 Agenda and its Sustainable Development Goals. It emphasizes the challenges of implementing the 2030 Agenda with a special focus on low-and middle-income countries and poverty reduction.
The development of the 2030 Agenda and the current status of the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals will be discussed. Different theoretical perspectives and concepts related to governance will also be introduced and applied on empirical examples stemming from global, national, and local levels of sustainable development governance.
Doctoral students will be asked to connect their own research projects to the themes of the course and to bring in their perspectives on the 2030 Agenda from different disciplinary backgrounds.
The course is online and free of charge.
Application:
The course is open to doctoral students from all fields of social sciences and related fields of study. A maximum of 20 students will be admitted to the course. A good knowledge of English is essential.
Please note that priority will be given to doctoral students in the Development Research School. However, other applicants will be assessed and accepted on the basis of the relevance of their PhD project to the course theme.
The application must include the following:
- Certificate of admission to PhD programme
- Motivation letter for course participation, including a description of your PhD project and its connection to the SDGs (max 3 pages)
- Short CV (1 page)
The deadline to apply is 15 November 2024.
Other enquiries: For any enquiries regarding the course, please contact Magdalena Bexell () or Thomas Hickmann ()