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Details at this weblink and pasted below: https://www.ncl.ac.uk/postgraduate/fees-funding/search-funding/?code=apl038   PhD studentship – Transport, Accessibility and the Built Environment Award Summary The studentship covers home tuition fees and an annual stipend of £19,237 (for 2024/5, with a +2.9% annual increase) for 3 years, with fieldwork and conference expenses of £2500. Overview Newcastle University is a founding […]

The Department of Sociology and Social Research at the University of Milan-Bicocca has opened candidatures for 5 fully funded doctoral fellowships in the PhD international program “Analysis of Social and Economic processes” (ASEP). Deadline: 14th May 2024 at.12.00 UCT. Here it is the link for application:  Calls for application | Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca (unimib.it) […]

At the Sociology of Development and Change (SDC) chair group at the University of Wageningen (the Netherlands) we are hiring a PhD researcher. We are looking for proposals on “contested landscapes” that take a combined political ecology and anthropological approach. The specific and geographical focus are deliberately kept open.   See for more details: https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd-position-contested-landscapes.htm

We are currently advertising for a fully funded PhD position (focusing on Urban Climate resilience in the global South) at the University of York. Here is the link to the advert and the application process. Please forward this to emerging young UK scholars who are interested in pursuing a PhD on climate resilient development in the global South. The closing date is 19 […]

We have three fully funded PhD opportunities at Birmingham City University that might be of interest to urban geographers – and we are interested in cross-disciplinary work.  Please circulate details to any potential applicants – we are happy to discuss ideas and approaches before any application. One relates to the radical proposal for a West […]

I would like to share the call for application to the XL cycle of the of Urbeur-Urban Studies PhD programme, at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano-Bicocca (Milan, Italy). https://en.unimib.it/education/postgraduates/doctoral-research-phd-programmes/applying-doctorate/calls-application URBEUR is an international Doctoral Programme networked with a number of outstanding European Universities: University of Amsterdam, Barcelona, Berlin, Delft, Lièges, London, […]

Fully funded PhD studentship on enabling Just Transition at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow. Title: A little less consultation, a little more action please: structuring local decision making for fair and sustainable communities Summary: We’ve an exciting fully funded PhD studentship at the University of Strathclyde based within the newly launched Strathclyde Institute for Sustainable Communities […]

We are excited to announce two new PhD positions at the Environmental Policy Group at Wageningen University, as part of the NWO-funded ShaRepair project. These positions offer a unique opportunity to engage in pioneering co-creative social science research focused on analysing and scaling circular repairing and sharing practices in everyday urban life. More information can […]

We are hiring a PhD candidate on ‘Market formation for sustainability innovations’ at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University, the Netherlands. The PhD will investigate how markets for sustainable innovations have been created in the past, explore how technological, regulatory, and market-related factors contribute to market formations, and develop a future-oriented methodology to […]

Full-time PhD researcher (4 years): East Asia case-study Social Ocean Energy A Social Learning Approach to Global Marine Renewable Infrastructures Funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF), a full doctoral position is available from June 2024 in an international team studying environmental justice issues around wave and tidal power in East Asia, Southeast Asia […]

Call for Applications: 6 PhD candidates for the new CONNECT (“Transdisciplinary Research to Connect Conservation and Development through Basic Income Support”) research project  Overview In accordance with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the search is on for effective, scalable and sustainable approaches to improve the well-being and livelihoods of residents in lower-income countries. One option […]

Cambridge are offering a fully funded PhD studentship exploring Colonial Natural Historical Collecting in the South Asian Indian Ocean: The University of Cambridge and its Museum of Zoology are pleased to announce a fully-funded collaborative doctoral studentship from October 2024 under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) Scheme. The University Museum of Zoology and Cambridge University Herbarium have exceptional collections […]

The Department of Environment & Geography at the University of York is advertising a fully-funded studentship (for UK home students only), including one project led by Felicia Liu, Simon Mair & Ioan Fazey on ‘Stewarding regenerative business transformations’. Apply here before the 28th April: https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/stewarding-regenerative-business-transformations-pathways-actors-and-impact/?p170693 This project aims to explore and innovate regenerative business models, […]

The Master in Political Economy of European Integration offers an extraordinary, interdisciplinary Master programme, combining critical research in political sciences and sociology, law, and (heterodox) macroeconomics. The programme covers different dimensions of European integration such as environment and energy, labour and social reproduction, as well as money and trade, and offers several options for specialisation. […]

Doctoral candidate in Social Geography and Urban Studies We are looking for a Doctoral candidate to contribute to the project “The Home-Debt Nexus: Feminist perspectives on housing, gender, and everyday life”, starting in September 2024. The project addresses the nexus of indebtedness and making home. It explores women’s everyday responses to these challenges, and the […]

3x 4-year PhD position in human and economic geography (Jagiellonian University, Kraków, Poland) Are you interested in Central and Eastern Europe and/or Poland? Would you like to join a new, enthusiastic research team? The ‘Humanscapes and Econoscapes’ projects, funded by the JU Institute of Geography and Spatial Management, under the JU Doctoral School in the […]

As part of the Flex-Mediation project, funded by ANR PEPR-TASE, we are offering a doctoral (36 months) or post-doctoral (24 to 30 months) contract at the Pacte Social Sciences Laboratory, Université Grenoble Alpes, starting in autumn 2024. The research will focus on “Energy communities and consumption adjustments” and will be supervised by Gilles Debizet (Pacte, […]

I would like to draw your attention to a funded PhD scholarship in the School of History and Geography at Dublin City University. We are particularly interested in candidates with research projects in areas of infrastructural labour, urban governance of sustainability, just transition, waste geographies and water quality. However, applications are welcome in any area […]

Four PhD vacancies and one Postdoctoral Research Fellow Applications are invited for four PhD vacancies and one Postdoctoral Research Fellow on a new international collaborative research project to start in September 2024.  The project, ‘Transformations in Housing and Intergenerational Contracts in Europe’ (THICE) is led by Humboldt University Berlin (Prof. Ilse Helbrecht), and brings together research teams from the University of […]

I am currently on the lookout for excellent PhD students, domestic or international, to join me at UNSW’s Cities Institute (https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/cities-institute), Faculty of Art, Design & Architecture, Sydney. Deadline for scholarship applications is April 26, 2024. Details about application process can be found here: https://www.unsw.edu.au/research/hdr/application. Please note this is a competitive process and while I […]

We are delighted to advertise a 3-year fully-funded PhD studentship in the Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences at Birmingham City University on The Impact of Alternative Active Travel on People’s Sport, Health and Mobile Lives. It will offer a unique opportunity to develop research across transport and mobility studies, sport and leisure studies, […]

An interdisciplinary team of researchers is seeking to recruit a PhD student to a research project on industrial modernity and Deep Transitions at the Institute of Social Studies, University of Tartu, Estonia, led by Laur Kanger. If you think that the deep sustainability turn necessitates rethinking some basic assumptions about technoscience and are interested in […]

The Gran Sasso Science Institute, a public research-intensive university dedicated to doctoral education in L’Aquila, Italy, has advertised 10 fully funded doctoral positions in its 4-year English-taught PhD programme in Regional Science & Economic Geography. The programme offers training in both quantitative and qualitative research methods in economic geography and regional studies. L’Aquila is a mid-size historical town in central […]

Two funded phd-positions in research project: “Open geospatial data at the intersection of digital commoning, digital humanitarianism, and digital capitalism: Transformations and tensions in OpenStreetMap” @ Institutes for Geography @ University of Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) & @ University Halle/S. (Germany) Work tasks: The German Research Foundation funded research project “Open geospatial data at the intersection of […]