Vacancy Core Team Member Contesting Governance Platform

Do you enjoy thinking about creative ways to bring together researchers working on similar issues and having conversations across disciplines? Are you committed to creating a space at UU for scholars working on governance, power, human rights, and contestation to unite and strengthen each other’s teaching, education, and public outreach? If so, please consider applying!

The Contesting Governance Platform seeks new core members to strengthen its interdisciplinary team. As one of the Platforms within the Strategic Theme of Institutions for Open Societies (IOS), we investigate how societies contest government using various tools, from legal instruments to violence and cultural contestation.

Bringing together more than 100 members within the UU, the Platform is steered by two coordinators and a team of core members that lead the main activities of the Platform, such as the Contesting Academia series, network meetings, Film screenings, seminars, and so forth. We operate with various underlying values and principles, such as openness, transparency, inclusivity, diversity, and equality. We also believe in a rotating coordination system. Due to the departure of several core team members in September, we are looking for new core members to join our team at the start of the academic 2025-2026.

As a core team member, you are expected to:

• attend regular core team meetings;
• participate in and organize existing (interdisciplinary) activities;
• represent the Platform and liaise with other UU initiatives and Platforms.

Core team members hold their positions for at least two years and a maximum of four years. All core team members will (in principle) receive some kind of compensation for their participation (although this will depend on the availability of funds and the specific terms of each member’s employment contract).