Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities
Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities

Erasmus Graduate School for Social Sciences and the Humanities

Cake and discussion at the Pavilion at Woudestein Campus.

We welcome you to Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities (EGSH). We host over 500 PhD candicates at our lively, spacious campuses in the cosmopolitan cities of Rotterdam and The Hague. 

We offer dozens of courses to nurture innovative and interdisciplinary research excellence. The diverse international backgrounds of our candidates enhance a vibrant academic community.

PhD support

We offer various services to support and guide PhD candidates throughout their project

Read about our support services

About EGSH

We are a joint venture of several partners

Read more about EGSH
Students talking on campus

News

News overview

  • Shortlist EGSH Awards for PhD Excellence 2025

    This is the shortlist for the EGSH Awards for PhD Excellence 2025.
    • Tuesday 10 Mar 2026
    • General
    Shortlist announcement

  • Join our designathon!

    Join and collaborate in a designathon format to prototype transdisciplinary hubs for AI-assisted research. 1 & 15 April 2026 Erasmus Education Lab
    • Thursday 5 Feb 2026
    • General
    News item image designathon 2026

  • EGSH News January 2026

    Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences and the Humanities newsletter for January 2026
    • Tuesday 13 Jan 2026
    • General
    EGSH News January 2026

Events

Events overview

Upcoming courses

  • Bounce back: handling the mental and emotional challenges of doing a PhD

    Key terms: resilience, stress, work-life balance, finding strength and direction, introductory course, relevant for students in any PhD phase.
    • Start date
      Wednesday 13 May 2026

  • Prepare your publication package

    Key terms: management of your PhD project, archiving, open science, FAIR, introductory course, mostly relevant for students in the beginning of their PhD.
    • Multiple Start Dates (2)
      First: Wednesday 20 May 2026

  • Public Speaking

    Key terms: presenting skills, nerves, storytelling, audience interaction, silence, hands, presenting with or without slides, body placement.
    • Start date
      Friday 22 May 2026

  • Open science and research transparency

    Key terms: mandatory topic, open science, responsible research management, research data management, publishing skills, introductory course, early PhD.
    • Multiple Start Dates (2)
      First: Monday 1 Jun 2026

  • Building your research proposal

    Key terms: research design, normative empirical concepts, introductory course, relevant for students in the beginning of their PhD trajectory.
    • Start date
      Thursday 4 Jun 2026

  • SICSS-ODISSEI Summer School on Computational Social Science

    Key terms: quantitative research, computational science, machine learning, network analysis, analysis of large-scale and complex linked data, Python software.
    • Start date
      Monday 8 Jun 2026

  • Generative AI (GenAI) for research and writing

    Key terms: generative AI (GenAI), Large Language Modules (LLM), ChatGPT, introductory course, relevant for students in any PhD phase.
    • Start date
      Tuesday 9 Jun 2026

  • Ethnography

    Key terms: qualitative research, ethnography in practice, ethnographic epistemology, ethical dilemmas in ethnography, introductory course.
    • Start date
      Wednesday 10 Jun 2026

  • How to manage your PhD project

    Key terms: Managing your PhD project, productivity, motivation, introductory course, relevant for PhD students at the beginning of their PhD trajectory.
    • Start date
      Wednesday 10 Jun 2026

  • Safety and security for fieldwork / in-situ research

    Key terms: safety and security, complex or dangerous fieldwork or in-situ research, being well prepared, risk assessment, research ethics, introductory course.
    • Start date
      Thursday 11 Jun 2026

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