Theses & internships

All MSc programmes at Wageningen University include a thesis research period and an academic oriented internship. Students from Wageningen University can write their Bachelor or Master thesis with the chair group Sociology of Development and Change (SDC). Below you will find a list of SDC staff members with their topics of expertise.

SDC supervises students during their academic internship with an organisation related to their field of studies (public, private, NGO, grassroots organisation, research institute, etc.), in the Netherlands or abroad.

Please visit our BrightSpace page to find the current thesis and internship vacancies. If you see a thesis or internship topic that sparks your interest, you can contact the thesis and internship coordinator via thesis.sdc@wur.nl.

Thesis topics by staff members

  • Conservation
  • Biodiversity
  • Capitalism

  • (Urban) political ecology
  • Disasters, hazards and risk
  • Vulnerability and marginalisation

  • Agrarian law
  • Land tenure
  • Natural resource management

  • Political ecology
  • Ecotourism
  • Climate change

  • Anthropology of conflict
  • Land conflict and land governance
  • Post-conflict recovery

  • Infrastructures
  • Digitisation
  • Rurality & islands

  • Alternatives, post-capitalism
  • Conservation, agriculture
  • Care & Conviviality

  • Anthropology of humanitarianism
  • Humanitarian governance
  • Conflict studies
  • Activism
  • Social movements
  • Anthropology of law
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Tourism
  • Philanthrocapitalism
  • Development sociology
  • Governance
  • Citizenship and (informal) politics
  • Politics of nature conservation
  • Climate change and conflict
  • Environment and livelihoods
  • Activism and resistance
  • Citizenship
  • Indigenous peoples
  • Land governance
  • State formation
  • Legal anthropology

  • Labour
  • Social reproduction
  • Wildlife economy
  • Urban political ecology
  • Peri-urban and periurbanisation
  • Climate change adaptation politics
  • Everyday (in)security
  • Social cohesion
  • Pastoralist livelihoods
  • Water governance
  • Disaster studies
  • Resource conflict and politics