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As part of the TRANSFORM project (“Urban Mobility Cultures in Transition: Socio-spatial implications of transformative practices”, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network), we are looking for highly motivated candidates for two fully funded PhD positions in transport policy and acceptability of local transition measures at the Frankfurt Lab for Social-Ecological Transformation of Urban Mobility (SET-Mobility), Department […]

In the framework of the NWO-funded Climares (www.climares.nl) programme, we have one (full-time, paid) PhD position for our research focus on urban street vendors in Mozambique. When successful, the candidate will be awarded a degree from the University of Amsterdam. More info can be found here: Vacancies – www.climares.nl The deadline is 28 March 2025. On the […]

The Geography Department at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) is advertising a Postdoc and a PhD position in the new Society-Environment Research Group. The application deadline is Friday, March 28, 2025. Please find further information on the two positions and how to apply here: https://www.geographie.nat.fau.de/job-offer-postdoc-33-years-and-phd-3-years-in-cultural-geography-society-environment-research/ as well as on the FAU job portal: https://www.jobs.fau.de/stellenangebote/

Call for applications for two PhD positions at the Sociology Department  at Trinity College Dublin. The positions are in quantitative sociology. The application deadline is April 21. Further information can be found at the links below. 🔗 https://www.tcd.ie/sociology/vacancies/ 🔗 https://www.tcd.ie/sociology/postgraduate/phd/index.php

I would like to share a PhD opportunity in a project on ‘Digital-infrastructural Sovereignty Amidst and Beyond US-China Polarization’, fully funded by the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR). The candidate will be based at the department of Human Geography, Urban Planning and International Development of the University of Amsterdam. For more details and […]

We have a new PhD opening, please find all the details here: Loughborough University PhD Opportunity Applicants are encouraged to have: (1) experience in GIS; (2) experience in quantitative data analysis, such as handling large datasets; and (3) experience with human participant research, such as interviews, focus groups, and/or surveys.   Submission deadline: 20th April […]

We are currently advertising for a fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Glasgow (Adam Smith Business School), which is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council via the Scottish Graduate School for Social Science (SGSSS). The project is titled “Public Futures, Deprivatisation and Municipalisation: Addressing Inequalities of Local Public Provision” and sits […]

​A studentship funded by the ESRC through the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS) is open for applications. The exciting PhD opportunity will explore the transformative potential of democratic finance – Community Bonds and Community Shares – in Scotland. This new form of finance creates citizen investors by harnessing and investing the financial resources […]

“The Urban Densification of Railway Stations Districts in Région Hauts-de-France — Observing, Measuring, Predicting” PhD funding (3 years) cofinanced by Région Hauts-de-France and Université Gustave Eiffel, starting in autumn 2025, candidate before 21st April 2025 Description of the PhD topic. Send CV and motivation letter to Alain L’Hostis, before the 31st March 2025.

The Department of Human Geography at Lund University is hiring a PhD student in economic geography (4 years)! The position is connected to research projects that focus on innovation and socio-technical transitions in the urban water management sector – globally and in select high- and middle-income cities. The position is well-suited for students with an […]

I am advertising two PhD and one Postdoc positions as part of my ERC-funded project “Climate Citizenship: Infrastructures, Environments, and Democracy in the Era of Climate Change.” One PhD position is for research in the US and the other for research in Japan. The candidates will be based at Leiden University’s Institute of Cultural Anthropology […]

The MA in Spatial Justice is designed for students who wish to deepen their understanding of critical geographical ideas and themes and apply this knowledge to the most pressing societal and environmental challenges of the 21st century. Students will be empowered to think geographically, to develop their critical thinking skills, undertake independent research in an […]

Scholarship to start masters at INRS, Montréal Urbanization Culture Society Centre This is a call for application for a master’s scholarship within the project titled “Analysing food districts to understand urban imaginaries and knowledge production: A Montréal-Delhi comparison”. Cities are complex entities and we, as users of these entities, have developed various ways to understand […]

Applications are invited for a three-year PhD studentship, supported by the College of Business and Social Sciences to be undertaken within the Centre for Business Prosperity, Aston Business School at Aston University. The position is available to start in October 2025. Financial Support This studentship includes a bursary to cover the tuition fees and an […]

We have an exciting Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Fellow position open in Modelling of Green Maritime Fuel Transition taking into Account Risk and Uncertainty. Please share internationally 🙏 Only open for applicants who have lived less than one year in Denmark within the last 3 years 🌍 Our ‘Ports as Energy Transition Hubs’ (POTENT) Marie Skłodowska-Curie […]

Resilience of pastoral societies to social-ecological change in central Kenya https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/research-opportunities/research-students/research-studentships/resilience-pastoral-societies-central-kenya/ Duration: Full-Time – between three and three and a half years fixed term Application deadline: 27 May 2025 Start date: September 2025 For further details contact: Dr James Bennett – apy073@coventry.ac.uk Introduction Pastoralism is a livelihood strategy premised on livestock mobility in marginal environments around the world, […]

At the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, we are inviting applications for a Doctoral Researcher in Comparative Social Policy, with an interest in comparative research on policy developments and outcomes on topics such as gender inequality, socio-economic inequality, social care/childcare, ethnicity and migration, or religion. At the Unit “Sociology, Social Policy, Social Work”  in the Department […]

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 […]