PhD in Human-Centered Digital Transformation Design

Digital transformations are about making businesses future-proof by investing in digital opportunities. More than technology adoption, the real organisational puzzle in digital transformations is discovering a new relationship between people and technology. This act of discovery is integral to a collaborative learning journey of practicing digital-age organizational agility—a capacity of an organisation to explore and exploit opportunities faster than its rivals.

Your research will be part of the Carglass Germany Research Chair: Meaningful Human-Centered Digital Transformation. You will investigate how digital transformations can be made more meaningful with a focus on the human dimension of sustainability, by engaging in action-design research in collaboration with Carglass Germany. Your goal is to study and experiment with information, technology and management artefacts that allow organisations to put humans at the centre of their digital transformations.

As a PhD-student, you are expected, next to your main research tasks, to participate in seminars and conferences, to enrol in the PhD program of the Faculty of Economics and Business at KU Leuven, and to perform a limited amount of educational duties (e.g. supporting classes, supervising exams, writing teaching cases). For more information about the PhD programme in Business Economics, see here. As a researcher associated with the Carglass Germany Research Chair, you will regularly participate in meetings with the sponsor and occasionally travel to Germany.