The PhD project 'JUST PRACTICES: Artistic Research, Curating and Climate Justice' is one of ten doctoral research projects within 'JUST ART: Creating Common Grounds for Climate Justice through Artistic Research', a consortium made up of five Dutch universities and numerous other partners.

JUST ART PhD candidates will generate new knowledge and critically assess approaches that integrate scientific insights with artistic research to address climate justice. JUST ART PhDs will study and develop concrete cases to learn how art and artistic research can be embedded in ongoing and emerging work on climate justice. They will enhance expertise and skills to take artistic and art-based transformative action on climate justice and will contribute to theoretical frameworks, common methods, educational toolkits and knowledge sharing platforms in co-creation with project partners.

Within the broader theme of artistic research and climate justice, this doctoral project investigates curatorial practices and multispecies justice, with a particular focus on museums and cultural spaces in the Kingdom of the Netherlands.

You will undertake doctoral level research on curating and multispecies justice as part of the JUST ART project. The exact scope of the research will be developed in dialogue with the selected candidate, but you will be expected to: 

• Investigate current approaches to multispecies justice within and beyond the cultural field; 
• Engage with artists, curators and other cultural practitioners in the Netherlands (and further afield) to explore the possibilities and limitations of adopting a multispecies framework in different contexts;
• Co-create a new curatorial intervention modelling approaches to multispecies justice (and climate justice more broadly) for arts and culture. 

These objectives will be developed and refined with the supervisors and in collaboration with the wider JUST ART community, which includes academics, artists, cultural institutions and societal partners across the Netherlands, including the Carribean. Your work will contribute to this ground-breaking project and will help shape new cultural practices and imaginaries.

The deadline for applications is 13 March 2026.