This new series tracks the progress and priorities of our full-time PhD fellows. Some are new recruits living here in Maastricht, the Netherlands, others are working abroad while waiting to defend. NB: the next application deadline for our full-time PhD programme is 15 February 2019.
PhD Profiles
How I won an award for Brazilian development: Flavia Filippin
19 November 2018
My research was about a set of public policies to support the semiconductor industry in Brazil. These policies started to be designed in the early 2000s, when it was identified that developing a semiconductor industry in the country would foster innovation in the electronics industry....
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How a Nuffic scholarship paved the way to my PhD: Jemal Adem
17 October 2018
I found out about the UNU-MERIT PhD programme through an online scholarship subscription. Initially, I was a bit surprised that governance and economics could be combined to form a single PhD programme – but then I saw how the two tracks work side-by-side in a complementary way....
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