Opportunities Categories: PHD

Are you interested in research to understand housing inequality, and motivated to find governance approaches which can support older adult health and wellbeing? We are looking for a PhD candidate to take part in the research project ‘Housing Governance for Healthy Aging,’ led by Principal Investigators Dr. Sarah Mawhorter and Dr. Sara Özoğul together with […]

Funded PhD Studentship: The peace potential of everyday economic spaces and practices in conflict-affected societies   This three-year funded PhD studentship enables research into the everyday economic spaces and practices that emerge during and following war, exploring the peace potential they offer to conflict-affected societies. Project details Everyday economic spaces and practices give insight into […]

The opportunity is open to both UK and overseas applicants. The deadline is 15th January 2025 for a May 2025 start date Project title: People make Coventry: A study in relational place-making This PhD scholarship embraces a ‘relational’ approach to place-making, according to which places are not ‘made’ by urban planners, policy-makers and politicians, but […]

Die Leuphana Universität Lüneburg steht als humanistische, nachhaltige und handlungsorientierte Universität für Innovation in Bildung und Wissenschaft. Methodische Vielfalt, interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit, transdisziplinäre Kooperationen mit der Praxis und eine insgesamt dynamische Entwicklung prägen ihr Forschungsprofil in den Kernthemen Bildung, Kultur, Management/Technologie, Nachhaltigkeit und Staat. Ihr internationales Studienmodell mit dem Leuphana College, der Leuphana Graduate School und […]

Graduate Student Positions Available in Urban Ecosystem Research The Urban Ecology and Sustainability Lab (UESL) at the University of British Columbia invites applications for multiple graduate positions under the supervision of Dr. Melissa McHale. We are recruiting up to two Master’s students and/or two PhD students to join our team, conducting innovative and applied research […]

Northumbria University has an existing collaborative agreement with Neuron Scooters UK and is seeking a candidate to conduct a public sentiment study using a broad range of methods to utilise existing computational GPS data around geographies of inclusion, risk and use value, whilst drawing insights from route-maps (Geo-fencing) that shape travel decision and behaviours. This […]

PhD funding for political theory projects within the Centre for Contemporary Political Theory (CCPT) at the University of Leeds. We are delighted to advertise full fees + maintenance scholarships to support doctoral research in political theory: The PhD Scholarship in Politics and International Studies (UK and International) The Leeds Doctoral Scholarship (UK only) Leeds Opportunity […]

Funding available for PhDs in Stirling, Scotland The Centre for the Sciences of Place and Memory, a new Leverhulme-funded interdisciplinary centre based in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities, are recruiting 2-4 PhD studentships, fully funded by the University of Stirling, which will aim to advance knowledge of the dynamic relations between place and memory […]

PhD Position on the Energy Transition – Business Dynamics of Decentral Flexibility Designs Job Description Decentralized flexibility is pivotal to the energy transition. Numerous companies, start-ups, pilot projects, and not-for-profit organizations offer decentral flexibility solutions to integrate renewable energies, provide storage capacity, balancing power and resilience for electricity grids. Decentral flexibility designs include, among others, […]

The School of Social and Political Science (SPS) at the University of Edinburgh is offering a 3-year PhD studentship on ‘Analysing interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity in whole systems energy research’. This fully funded PhD studentship (covering stipend and fees) is available to UK / Home fee status applicants only. The application deadline is Thursday 30th January […]

The Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Science at the University of Exeter has scholarship funding of over £1.7m available to support both home and international PhD applicants starting their postgraduate research degree in September 2025. Exeter is a centre for world-leading research across the Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences. Our departments are consistently placed at […]

I would like to advertise an opportunity to apply for a funded PhD position at my research group at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, for three-years, to start in October 2025, for outstanding students from a country with diplomatic relations with Japan. Kyoto University is one of Japan’s two premier universities and is ranked 45th globally by […]

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]