Opportunities Categories: PHD

PhD position in Climate Finance and Policy 100%, Zurich, fixed-term printDrucken  ETH Zurich’s Climate Finance and Policy Group (CFP) together with ETH Zurich’s Energy and Technology Policy Group (EPG) is seeking a PhD candidate in climate finance and policy. We are an interdisciplinary research group investigating options for public policy and for private actors to accelerate investments in new […]

The project will explore ways in which borders and migration are produced, governed, experienced, imagined, contested and/or transformed through affective practices. Over the last years we have witnessed an increasing political, discursive and legislative criminalisation of migrants and solidarity acts in the UK, Europe and beyond. The research examines the affective and emotional dimension of […]

We are looking to fill several PhD or PostDoc positions at the University of Geneva in the field of renewable energy systems, especially with a focus on spatial energy systems modeling, probabilistic analysis, and socio-technical analysis. The successful PhD or PostDoc candidate will have an opportunity to work on research questions that are designed based on their […]

Applications are invited for a PhD scholarship at the Department of Anthropology. Enrolment will be at the Faculty of Social Sciences under Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences. The position starting date is 1 March 2025. Introduction The project PROMACS, ‘Promoting Climate Change Adaptation in a Context of Multiple Crises in Burkina Faso. The Role […]

Durham University’s Department of Geography, together with IBRU (Durham’s Centre for Borders Research), Queen’s University Belfast’s Department of Geography, and the Royal Geographical Society (with the Institute of British Geographers), is pleased to announce that it is recruiting one prospective PhD student for a fully-funded, 3.5-year PhD studentship in ‘Ethnographies of Border Mapping’, funded by the UK Arts & […]

Northumbria University’s Urban Futures Interdisciplinary Research Theme is advertising a fully-funded PhD studentship at the nexus of young mens’ health/wellbeing and urban social infrastructures (USIs) in UK-Cities.  Cosupervised by Jason Luger (Human Geography), Ozge Dilaver (Business) and Lisa Thomas (Psychology), this is an exciting opportunity for a cross-disciplinary exploration with support from the IDRT. Project details […]

The Human Geography Pathway of the ESRC-funded Wales Graduate School of Social Sciences (WGSSS) invites applications for fully funded PhD studentships at Aberystwyth, Cardiff, and Swansea Universities. The application deadline is December 11th, and applications should be sent directly to the individual universities—see the links below. Research topics are open, although the strongest applications will […]

I am excited to announce that I am recruiting 3 PhD candidates to join my ERC Starting Grant project on the generative tensions of slavery and colonial heritage tourism. We seek for PhD candidates who have the necessary academic training, research experience and language skills to respectively conduct one of the subprojects on: 1) Ghana-Suriname-Netherlands; (2) […]

We are hiring a PhD or Post-doc in Energy use patterns of Swedish households. The candidate needs to be fluent in Swedish, and for those who are, we offer an exciting opportunity to dive into research at the crossroads of energy system transformation, human behavior, and just transitions. You’ll work with experienced scholars and access […]

Migrant and Refugee Welcome: Achieving Social Sustainability through Local Migration Governance Australia and the UK are both among the top 10 recipient countries of people on the move (migrants and refugees) globally, while migration control is also high in their respective national policy agendas. Local and city-level governing bodies in the two countries are often […]

Including community re-use and repair groups in circular economy digitalisation. Application deadline: 15 December, 2024 Fully-funded 3.5 year PhD, based at the CAM-DTP (University of Cambridge/Anglia Ruskin University), sitting in the Global Sustainability Institute at Anglia Ruskin University.   The PhD’s focus: 🔧 Community re-use and repair groups (e.g. informal freecycling groups, pop-up repair or […]

A PhD opportunity is now available in the Department of Urban and Regional Planning at the University of Florida. This project focuses on property ownership and market consolidation in US housing markets. It is a fully funded 4-year position. Dr. Renee Tapp will supervise the student. The PhD student is expected to develop an independent […]

PhD Position – Human Dimensions of Climate Smart Agricultural Practices   The Social Sustainability of Agriculture and Food Systems Lab at the University of Georgia is recruiting a PhD student to conduct research on the complexities of adoption of “climate-smart” agricultural practices in the United States. Advised by Dr. Jennifer Jo Thompson, the selected student will carry out mixed-methods […]

Application is now OPEN for a new ESRC-funded PhD studentship on ‘A place-based, intersectoral approach for Net Zero’, starting in Oct 2025 at the Department of Land Economy, University of Cambridge. Please see the link below for more information. https://www.landecon.cam.ac.uk/news/applications-invited-esrc-funded-phd-studentship-place-based-intersectoral-approach-net-zero https://www.esrcdtp.group.cam.ac.uk/programme/phd-funding-opportunities/  

Applications are invited for funded PhDs in the College of Business, Arts and Social Sciences at Brunel University.  These funding awards are for commencement of study in October 2025 and are open equally to UK and international applicants The funding is awarded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council through the Doctoral Training consortium Techne, which […]

AHRC/TECHNE PhD Studentships at Kingston University London for October 2025 entry The Department of Architecture and Landscape at Kingston University London is delighted to invite expressions of interest from strong researchers to join our PhD Programme from October 2025. Funded full-time and part-time studentships are available on a competitive basis through the TECHNE Doctoral Training […]

PhD Assistantships Examining Biodiversity, Ecosystem Service, Cultural, and Economic Benefits and Tradeoffs Across Forest Adaptation Approaches at the University of Vermont  Project: Relatively little is known about best adaptation strategies for addressing climate change impacts on forests in ways that balance key ecosystem services like carbon storage with other desired outcomes, including sustaining biodiversity and […]

Dr. Gabe Schwartzman, at the Department of Geography and Sustainability at the University of Tennessee, is recruiting a PhD student as part of an NSF-funded project on the political ecology of carbon forest management in Central Appalachia. This is a 3-year fully funded Graduate Research Assistantship, with a fourth year of funding as a Teaching […]