7 October 2026

The Faculty of Archaeology will participate in the PhDs in the Humanities grant program 2027. The official call and documents will probably be published by NWO in November.

Procedure

Applications that are selected by both the Faculty Boards of FdA (Archaeology) and FGW (Humanities) are allowed to submit to NWO. Proposals will therefore be assessed in two subsequent selection phases at Leiden University:

1) Pre-selection Faculty of Archaeology

The first phase is at our faculty. Deadline for the pre-selection phase by the Faculty of Archaeology is Thursday the 12^th of November, 2027, 11.59 a.m. The FdA Research Committee will assess the proposals on behalf of the Board and will then determine the top three to continue to the next selection phase.

2) Selection Humanities/Archaeology

The selected ones from FdA will incorporate the committee’s feedback and will then have to resubmit before the second deadline of 7^th of January 17:00 hrs. From all the pre-selected Archaeology and Humanities proposals a Humanities/Archaeology Committee will subsequently determine the five who will be able to submit to NWO on behalf of Leiden University. The NWO deadline will be on 16^th of February 2027, 14:00 hrs.

FdA internal submission

Every candidate will have a maximum of two submission opportunities. Note that the supervisor or promotor will ultimately have to submit the application and, hence, will be the formal applicant. For this FdA internal selection each supervisor (intended applicant) can be connected to max. two candidates.

FdA applications should consist of:

• a research proposal and CV written in English in the NWO-PhDs in the Humanities 2026 format (see here under the tab ‘prepare’). Since the new call and format 2027 will be published later, we will stick to the 2026 format for this first phase (if the link above no longer works request a 2026 proposal form via mail). The data management section, abstract for non-specialists and the budget form are not yet required; these will be needed for the next phase for those who will be selected.
• an email (Dutch or English) of supervisor and promotor (albeit in CC) declaring willingness to support candidate & project.

​​​​​​​Send your application before Thursday the 12^th of November, 2027, 11.59 a.m. to researchcommittee@arch.leidenuniv.nl. Applications received after the deadline will not be considered.