Opportunities Categories: PHD

Join our Just Energy Transitions team within the Rinn Energy network to tackle one of the biggest bottlenecks in Ireland’s green transition: 🔬 Research Topic: Overcoming Political, Regulatory & Organisational Barriers to Decarbonisation The successful candidate will investigate the governance and organisational challenges holding back decarbonisation across state, semi-state, and private entities using mixed-methods research, […]

The Welsh Graduate School of the Social Sciences (WGSSS) is currently open for applications for its doctoral training programme. This is a great opportunity for doctoral funding. You can find out more about it here: https://wgsss.ac.uk/ The programme is run across several Welsh universities. Bangor is part of the ‘environmental planning pathway’ of the WGSSS. […]

Access to PhD funding through the ESRC’s Welsh Graduate School of Social Sciences. The Department of Geography and Earth Sciences at Aberystwyth hosts two pathways in this competition for fully funded scholarships in Human Geography and in Environmental Planning. The application deadline is Dec 14th. A link to the WGSSS website is here https://wgsss.ac.uk/student-led-general-competition/ Links to […]

Are you an aspiring junior researcher, postdoc, or senior researcher who wants to do funded research? Are you interested in the Arctic? And, are you interested in what rapidly changing climatic conditions, and the race to extract materials, mean for the people who live there and for the planet? If so, this could be your […]

The Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS) at EPFL (Switzerland) is pleased to announce two fully funded PhD positions in urban sustainability transitions, tipping dynamics, provisioning systems, and sufficiency. Both positions are based in Lausanne for up to four years, with an application deadline of 12 November 2026.   Trade-off and Tipping Dynamics […]

We are recruiting for a 4 year fully funded PhD position on a HorizonEurope project. Please reach out if you are interested and have questions, and feel free to forward to students who might be interested. Apologies for cross-posting! Starting date: January 2027 Level of employment: 100% The Sustainability Research Group at the University of […]

1 Funded PhD position at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore 4 years of funding + fieldwork + conference funding We are seeking one highly motivated and creative PhD student to join the Mining Mineral Life research group. We are looking for expansive thinkers who take risks with their research, cross disciplinary boundaries, and experiment with methods. The […]

The Division of Public Policy (PPOL) at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) is inviting applications for the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme (HKPFS) 2027/28. https://ppol.hkust.edu.hk/ https://www.ugc.edu.hk/eng/rgc/funding_opport/hkpfs/ Our research activities focus on three areas: 1. Science, Technology, and Innovation Policy; 2. Energy, Environmental, and Sustainability Policy; and 3. Social and Urban Policy. […]

The Department of Geography and the Environment at Syracuse University is excited to welcome applicants to its MA and PhD programs with an expected matriculation of Fall 2027. Our faculty’s expertise spans the breadth of the discipline, including Cultural Geography and the Environmental Humanities, Environment-Society, GISciences and Geospatial Technologies, Physical Geography, Political Geography and Political […]

The Global Environmental Studies at Kyoto University is opening a call for new MEXT scholarship PhD students. https://www.ges.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/admissions/schedule-and-guide Our team, Team Sustainability Transition at Kyoto University, welcomes prominent PhD students who work on the research project “Multiple and Just NetZero Transitions throughout International Supply Chains.” Scholarship period: Up to 3 years from October 2027 It is […]

Call for Applications: 10 PhD positions in the new DFG Research Training Group „Urban Future – managing transformations for a better health in blue cities“ (RTG 3204/1)  The Research Training Group „Urban Future – managing transformations for a better health in blue cities“ examines how urban spaces along rivers and coastlines can be designed and […]

We are recruiting a fully funded doctoral student at the Division of Physical Resource Theory, Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden, for the project “Quantity or quality? A Blind Spot for Carbon Footprint Analysis and Demand-Side Policy” (2026–2030).   Consumption-based carbon footprint accounting for households assumes that emissions scale with spending: €100 on clothing counts […]

PhD Student Position on Data Centers and Energy Development in the Southeast The Geography Department at the University of Tennessee is recruiting a PhD student to work as a graduate research assistant (GRA) on the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation-funded project, “Data Centers and the Southern Energy Buildout: Implications for Electricity Cost, Energy Transition, and Energy […]

A PhD position is open in the Department of Geography at the University of Bergen, hosted by the Human Geography and Sustainable Development Research Group. Candidates with interests in political ecology, environmental/conservation social science, or critical development studies are very much welcome to apply. Starting salary: 593,700 NOK, before tax. Norwegian health coverage, 25 paid […]

University of Gothenburg is now hiring a PhD candidate in practical philosophy, with a focus on economic ethics and/or environmental ethics. Economic ethics is the application of moral or political philosophy to critical issues in business organizations or the economic system. Environmental ethics is the application of moral or political philosophy to critical issues in […]