The GSSS, in close cooperation with the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR), offers a specialist curriculum for PhD candidates.

This PhD programme is open

• for junior researchers employed by the AISSR and working on a PhD project,
• for other PhD candidates accepted by the AISSR that can provide for their own funding,
• and for PhD students from other Universities (pay per course).

Please see the AISSR website as well as general UvA information for further information on PhD positions and enrolment.

The GSSS offers a PhD programme of up to 40 ECTS of courses. The programme consists of three main parts:

• Methodology
  Advanced level qualitative and quantitative courses Methodology Clinic A and B (choice) 
   
• Theory
  An advanced Social Science Theory Course 
   
• Choice and tailor made courses
  This concerns courses fitting the individual PhD candidate's needs and feature skills and topics that complement personal expertise and contribute to the project. The programme also allows for PhD candidates to develop highly specialised courses involving visiting professors (so called Short Intensive Courses).

There is no formal exam, as the curriculum is part of the PhD project that will result in a doctoral thesis