Welcome to the website of the Graduate School of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences (FASoS) of Maastricht University. We are pleased that you are interested in learning more about our PhD Programme. It offers the opportunity to pursue a PhD in the interdisciplinary field of arts and social sciences.

Feel free to learn more about our Graduate School by exploring this website. The Programme Overview tells you more about the set-up of our Programme. You receive a coherent programme of introductory courses, intensive supervision and frequent discussion with the senior researchers inside and outside the Faculty. The Programme can be characterised by its basic choice for interdisciplinarity, the striving for internationalisation and the emphasis on contemporary issues in science and society. The section Research at FASoS provides more information on the Faculty’s research.

If you are curious, talented and if you have the ambition to become an excellent researcher, we would be delighted to hear from you. More information on how to admit can be found here. Please take a look also at our research suggestions. But feel free to come with your own ideas.

Thank you again for considering our Programme.

Yours sincerely,

Dr. Geert Somsen
Coordinator Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences

Dr. Thomas Conzelmann
Director Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences

Prof. dr. Rein de Wilde
Dean of the Faculty of Arts an Social Sciences