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Two PhD Positions in JUST MATTER: Situated Material Engagement for Climate Justice

Utrecht University has opened two fully funded PhD positions in JUST MATTER: Situated Material Engagement for Climate Justice. The positions are part of CARADT’s collaboration with Utrecht University within the broader NWO-funded consortium JUST ARTarrow. 

The PhD projects focus on situated material practices in relation to climate justice and are structured around two themes: 

  • Material Engagement with Everyday Textiles 

What can the history of everyday textiles – the things we wear, wash our dishes with, and the sofas we sit on – teach us about a climate-just use of fibres for the future? This PhD project studies how historical textile practices may generate new perspectives on the climate-just use of fibres. 

  • Material Engagement with Common Ceramics 

Like textiles, ceramic materials–clay, bricks, tiles, glass, and cement–are a bedrock of everyday living. This PhD project considers what happens when we seek new forms of ceramic durability through both historical and recent production processes. 

 

Both positions combine historical, social-scientific, and artistic approaches to examine how material practices are embedded in ecological, economic, and social contexts. 

 

The application deadline is 13 March 2026. Further details about the positions, requirements, and application procedure can be found on the website of Utrecht University: https://www.uu.nl/en/organisation/working-at-utrecht-university/jobs/2-phds-in-just-matter-situated-material-engagement-for-climate-justicearrow  

Research Group: Situated Art, Design and Technology

The research group Situated Art, Design and Technology (SADT) focuses on the societal embedding and embodiment of knowledge production that art and design research enables. The conducted research contributes to a deeper understanding of technological developments and their impact on people, society, and the environment, and to the development of situated approaches in the creative sector and beyond. In doing so, it advances a wider acknowledgement of artistic and design research as a mode of knowledge production, one that is grounded in creativity and critical imagination as a way of generating insight into, and intervening in, societal transitions driven by technology. 

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