Visa denied: Restrictive selectiveness within Schengen visa practices in West Africa

• Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
• PhD candidate: Carlotti, S.
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/1a2d1009-eb0a-4a1e-9dab-7ea3480a65cb
• Supervisors/Advisors: Pallister-Wilkins, P. E. (Supervisor), Tomei, G. (Supervisor) & Doomernik, J. M. J. (Co-supervisor)
• Award date: 13 Feb 2026

Decentralized despotims: Subnational incumbents and electoral violence in Nigeria

• Programme group: Political Economy and Transnational Governance
• PhD candidate: Fubara, M. A.
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/7a0ea5f7-1feb-425f-a829-ca295e6c5376
• Supervisors/Advisors: Daxecker, U. (Supervisor), Steele, A. A. (Co-supervisor) & Bader, J. (Co-supervisor)
• Award date: 21 Apr 2026

Guarding the gates, preserving the rights: Public perception, emotions, and attitudes toward immigrants

• Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
• PhD candidate: Uysal Dinçol, D. M.
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/fb957db0-201a-4b84-82e1-99e2705d96d2
• Supervisors/Advisors: Harbers, I. (Supervisor), Turper, S. (Supervisor) & Ersanilli, E. F. (Co-supervisor)
• Award date: 20 May 2026

Public lands and dimensions of citizenship: A comparative analysis of Mexico and Türkiye

• Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
• PhD candidate: Yüksekkaya, Ö.
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/f013581b-47ff-4ff9-98db-8569c3d9970c
• Supervisors/Advisors: Harbers, I. (Supervisor) & Altan-Olcay, Ö. (Supervisor)
• Award date: 1 Jun 2026

Bordering Europe through categorization: Implementing, mediating, and navigating the Schengen visa regime in Türkiye

• Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
• PhD candidate: Cangönül, M.
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/48e6729d-31ec-423d-b567-57016d3c3bfe
• Supervisors/Advisors: Mamadouh, V. D. (Supervisor), Altan-Olcay, Ö. (Supervisor) & İşleyen, B. (Co-supervisor)
• Award date: 11 Jun 2026

The European Union and contested states: Insights from Kosovo, northern Cyprus and Palestine

• Programme group: Transnational Configurations, Conflict and Governance
• PhD candidate: Lefteratos, A.
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/321068d3-b1e3-47fd-afc4-17684d671d9a
• Supervisors/Advisors: de Goede, M. (Supervisor) & Bouris, D. (Co-supervisor)
• Award date: 22 Jun 2026

Beyond winner-take-all: Examining market competition on and between webcam sex platforms 

• Programme group: Cultural Sociology  
• PhD candidate: Jokubauskaitė, E. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/d3ba0a56-efd2-4895-a889-4f0cdd227fbe 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Poell, T. (Supervisor), Velthuis, O. J. M. (Supervisor) & Rieder, B. (Co-supervisor) 
• Award date: 10 Mar 2026

Beyond bias: Examining conditions that shape ethnic discrimination in resume screening and employees' support for organizational inclusion 

• Ethnic discrimination remains a persistent issue in contemporary labor markets despite widespread organizational  
• Programme group: Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses  
• PhD candidate: Sachs, T. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/3efd202d-fb50-45d2-8b88-332788a69647 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Lancee, B. (Supervisor) & Homan, A. C. (Supervisor) 
• Award date: 12 Mar 2026 

The last stop: A biographical approach to a chosen death in Switzerland 

• Programme group: Political Sociology  
• PhD candidate: Carrigan Chavez, K. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/89743010-288e-4f2b-b8dc-362ea50f8f21
• Supervisors/Advisors: Brown, P. R. (Supervisor) & Blume, S. S. (Co-supervisor) 
• Award date: 31 Mar 2026 

(Un)equal careers: Labor market inequalities between workers with general and vocational education over the life course 

• Programme group: Institutions, Inequalities, and Life courses  
• PhD candidate: Decker, V. V. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/a796b4d5-989a-4bba-a41b-d6c08ec92497
• Supervisors/Advisors: Bol, T. (Supervisor), Kruse, H. (Co-supervisor) & Labussière, M. (Co-supervisor) 
• Award date: 1 Apr 2026 

Why here? Contextualizing care relocation of German-speaking seniors to the Czech borderlands 

• Programme group: Health, Care and the Body 
• PhD candidate: Jelinek, M.  
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/d01ab9bd-e7bc-4a24-89a3-ab9f87c77889
• Supervisors/Advisors: Krause, K. (Supervisor), de Rooij, V. A. (Co-supervisor) & Driessen, A. E. (Co-supervisor) 
• Award date: 28 Jan 2026 

Navigating housing beyond arrival: The trajectories of EU labour migrants in the Netherlands 

• Programme group: Urban Geographies  
• PhD candidate: Loomans, D. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/b4f79b0a-8b5e-4082-9084-cdefe3df7c6e 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Manting, D. (Supervisor) & Pinkster, F. M. (Supervisor) 
• Award date: 11 Feb 2026

Governing the ASM-farming nexus: Prospects for integrated and inclusive landscape governance in Ghana 

• Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development 
• PhD candidate: Aggrey, J. J. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/8312a978-871b-47b4-8bc6-ac60ecd4cb75 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Gupta, J. (Supervisor) & Ros-Tonen, M. A. F. (Supervisor) 
• Award date: 24 Feb 2026 

Multispecies urbanism: Refining urban greenspace through ecological, reciprocal, and situated planning practices for interspecies coproduction 

• Programme group: Urban Planning  
• PhD candidate: Solomon, D. A. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/418be324-a056-489c-8beb-28edeb2cdabb 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Kaika, M. (Supervisor) & Nevejan, C. I. M. (Supervisor) 
• Award date: 25 Feb 2026

Currents of trust: Insights from transboundary water cooperation in the Sava and Syrdarya river basins 

• Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development 
• PhD candidate: Sharipova, B. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/d5295968-662f-49bf-a805-3df26399f84e 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Zwarteveen, M. Z. (Supervisor), Sehring, J. (Co-supervisor) & Keskinen, M. (Co-supervisor) 
• Award date: 6 Mar 2026

Climate change, fossil fuels, and the energy transition in the Global South: Governance pathways to leave fossil fuels underground 

• Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development  
• PhD candidate: Heras, A. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/d67a0490-ca18-4db2-aea8-dbd588aab978 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Gupta, J. (Supervisor) & Rammelt, C. F. (Co-supervisor) 
• Award date: 12 Mar 2026

The cost and value of participation in water governance: A case study of Indonesia 

• Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development 
• PhD candidate: Anggraeni, M. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/afd6f627-41a1-47d2-9e70-99ed59d3fec5 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Gupta, J. (Supervisor) & Verrest, H. J. L. M. (Co-supervisor) 
• Award date: 8 Apr 2026

Intersecting masculinities and early marriage in the margins of Terai/Madesh, Nepal: Rethinking early marriage policy and practice through a DPSIR drivers, pressures, state, impact, and response analysis of lived realities and critical framings in global and national frameworks 

• Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development 
• PhD candidate: Shakya, R. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/3fc3e919-888d-4201-b70d-935b93e2a171 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Gupta, J. (Supervisor), Miedema, E. A. J. (Co-supervisor) & Pouw, N. R. M. (Co-supervisor) 
• Award date: 28 Apr 2026

Mapping translocal lives: Chinese migration, entrepreneurship, and the China-Bourdeaux wine economy 

• Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development 
• PhD candidate: Ye, J. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/842d6373-1ab4-4eeb-95e5-4a6ae3ae86bf 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Leung, W. H. M. (Supervisor) & Bailey, A. (Co-supervisor) 
• Award date: 29 Apr 2026

Measuring what matters: A wellbeing economics approach to urban marginality in high-income contexts 

• Programme group: Governance and Inclusive Development  
• PhD candidate: van Beek, J. E. M. 
• Handle.net: https://hdl.handle.net/11245.1/31cc786d-a152-4018-a6b0-edab0a3d829c 
• Supervisors/Advisors: Pouw, N. R. M. (Supervisor) & Verrest, H. J. L. M. (Supervisor) 
• Award date: 2 Jun 2026