PhD Fellowship: Complexity-oriented Evaluation in European Joint Actions

Department of Oncology and Office of Health and Partnerships at Lillebaelt Hospital in Vejle and at the Graduate School of Health Sciences at the University of Southern Denmark invites applications for a position as PhD fellow linked to European Joint Actions from 1 February 2027 or as soon as possible.

Lillebaelt Hospital, Vejle, is involved in several large European initiatives in cancer care, including among others the Joint Actions EUnetCCC and JANE-2 under Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan. Across these joint actions, the hospital leads and contributes to evaluation work packages and evaluation tasks that are related to governance, impact and learning in complex multi-partner collaborations.

This provides a unique setting for the PhD fellow, with access to rich empirical material and close collaboration with both academic and clinical partners working to improve cancer care.

PhD project focus

Complexity-oriented evaluation in large EU health programmes The PhD’s overall focus is to explore how evaluation can be designed and carried out in ways that reflect the complexity of large EU health initiatives. The project will focus on complexity-oriented approaches to evaluation.

Current EU health programmes are often planned, monitored and reported through structured frameworks that emphasise predefined objectives, indicators, deliverables and expected impacts1 …