PhD in Disability Studies

This fully-funded, 4-year PhD research position is part of the project "Don't Forget the Forgotten! Towards a Platform-Based Approach for Sustainable Employment of Workers with a Disability". The project, funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO), addresses the challenge of limited sustainable employment opportunities for workers with disabilities by studying and co-designing socio-technological innovations./nThe PhD project aims to develop (i) new theoretical insights on sheltered digital work as a ‘nascent occupation’ as well as (ii) actionable knowledge that supports social enterprises to organize and manage novel forms of sheltered digital work as a driver the inclusion of individuals that are estranged from the labor market./nYou will join the Professional Learning & Technology (PLT) section of the Faculty of Behavioural, Management & Social Sciences at the University of Twente.