Postdoc Position: Human Rights in the Menstrual Movement (ERC-funded PERIODS project)

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Wageningen University & Research (WUR)

  • Career category: Research/ Data analysis
  • Job type: PhD
  • Experience level: 0-5 years
  • Organisation type: Research
  • Remote option: No
  • Right to work requirements: Anyone can apply
  • Remuneration: €3,378 EUR-€5,331 EUR / monthly
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 26/05/2025
  • Location: Netherlands
Sexual & reproductive rights (SRHR) Human rights Health
The position is part of the ERC-funded PERIODS project on Human Rights in the Menstrual Movement led by Dr. Inga Winkler. You will play a key role in the project by taking the lead on one of the case studies, contributing to the conceptual research for the overall project, and supporting the setup and management of the project.

Your duties and responsibilities include:

  • Carry out conceptual research on menstruation, stigma and human rights
  • Take the lead on original research on trans- and non-binary menstruators and their role in the menstrual movement (data collection, data analysis, writing and publication)
  • Support the setup and management of the overall project including data management and ethical clearance
  • Be involved in the daily supervision of PhD students
  • Support all other activities as relevant during each stage of the project
  • Fully integrate and participate in the activities of the LAW group

Your team
You will work closely with the team on the PERIODS project, which, apart from your position, includes the principal investigator (PI), several PhD candidates who work on case studies in India, South Africa and Hungary, and a research assistant. In addition, the PI's research group also includes other researchers who center menstruation in their work within the broader context of public health and human rights.

About the project
The PERIODS project is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant and runs from 2025 to 2030. It explores the promises, pitfalls, and renewed potential of human rights in the menstrual movement. PERIODS has two central objectives: first, to develop a thick and nuanced understanding of human rights in the menstrual movement, and second to generate empirical insights from a young, translocal, global South-driven movement for the reconceptualization of human rights based on social practice. The project centers the social practice of human rights in the menstrual movement by drawing on the articulations of lived experiences of people who menstruate, and on the perspectives of movement leaders. It combines empirical research using in-depth interviews, focus groups, qualitative surveys, and document analysis with conceptual work grounded in human rights. Theoretically, the project is rooted in the critical engagement with human rights and a re-envisioning of human rights 'from below'. It considers the practice of human rights in the menstrual movement as constitutive of what matters for the realization and conceptualization of human rights.

Your qualities
  • A PhD in the social sciences related to questions of human rights, gender, and/or social movements.
  • Interest in conceptual work focused on stigma, marginalization, gender, and human rights.
  • Training in qualitative empirical research methods and/or socio-legal studies, ideally working with groups facing marginalization.
  • Familiarity with developments in the field of human rights and critiques of human rights.
In our international working environment, communication on the project team takes place entirely in English. This requires about language level C1 . 

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