Opportunities Categories: PHD

About the Project  The Urbanism and Coastal Heritage Lab’s objective is to investigate the dual threat of rapid globalisation and climate change particularly related to West Africa’s coastal urban built environment, cultural heritage and the socio-economic livelihoods of the most vulnerable in this region.  Through an interdisciplinary lens, the focus of the lab is centred on the […]

The Department of Geography and Environment at Loughborough University is the birthplace of the world-leading Globalization and World Cities (GaWC) research network and home to the multi-million pound Centre for Sustainable Transitions: Energy, Environment and Resilience (STEER) and Cities research group. Placed in the Top 50 in the latest QS World Rankings, the Department of Geography and […]

The Economics of the impact of demand response measures in households as part of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network on “Consumer Energy Demand Flexibility in Electricity Use” (CoDeF) Application deadline is 15 April 2026. Consumers and citizens will play an important role in the transition to net zero carbon energy through flexible energy use […]

How fast can energy technologies grow and what can policy realistically do to accelerate them? Join the Energy Technology and Policy group as a doctoral student and develop the data-driven methods to find out. About us At the Division of Physical Resource Theory, we study how societies can transition towards sustainability. Building on physics and […]

🌊 Funded PhD – Hydrogen Futures, Rural Transitions: Skills for a Just Transition in the Highlands and Islands 🌊 Really excited to be advertising this fully funded PhD position, based at the Adam Smith Business School at the University of Glasgow, with me and the Prof Andrew Cumbers, funded by the College of Social Sciences Scholarship […]

The Department of Geography at the University of Tartu in Estonia invites applications for a Junior Research Fellow (PhD) position, running from September 2026 to August 2030. The application deadline is 15 April 2026. The position offers an opportunity to pursue doctoral studies while contributing to research on migration processes, urban development, and socio-spatial change. The PhD […]

The University of Milan-Bicocca (Italy) is offering six fully funded scholarships for the three-year Ph.D. Programme in Urban Studies (URBEUR) at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, starting on November 1, 2026. The doctoral programme is designed to be a benchmark of excellence in urban studies, equipping scholars, researchers, and professionals with a comprehensive and interdisciplinary education. It provides a […]

I would like to inform you that applications are now open for five PhD fellowships in Analysis of Social and Economic Processes at the Department of Sociology and Social Research, University of Milano–Bicocca. Further information and the application procedure are available at the following link: https://en.unimib.it/study/doctoral-research-phd-programmes/applying-doctorate/calls-application For more details about the PhD programme, please visit: https://www.asep.unimib.it/home

I am pleased to advertise the following *fully-funded PhD studentship* for the new PhD Geography by Practice at University of Manchester. Geography by Practice studentship | Faculty of Humanities | The University of Manchester PhD Geography by Practice is a new programme that enables postgraduate students to undertake doctoral level research in innovative projects with a […]

I am pleased to announce a new PhD scholarship with Wolfram Dressler and Serene Ho at the University of Melbourne and colleagues at the KIT. 💥the call will remain open until a suitable candidate is found. Please see the link and selection criteria below: https://findanexpert.unimelb.edu.au/opportunity/1687-an-analysis-of-expanding-road-infrastructure-on-indigenous-land-rights–food-security-and-forest-cover-in-southern-palawan–the-philippines ‘An analysis of expanding road infrastructure on Indigenous land rights, […]

Please find below details of two fully funded PhD studentships at LSE Health, London School of Economics and Political Science. We would be grateful if you could share this with anyone in your networks who may be interested. 2 FULLY FUNDED PhD STUDENTSHIPS — ECONOMICS OF DIAGNOSTICS IN AFRICA LSE Health, London School of Economics […]

Fully Funded PhD Opportunity from September 2026, Dublin Ireland. Are you a health systems, policy or governance researcher or practitioner interested in a fully funded PhD opportunity? Applications are now being accepted through the SPHeRE Programme for a PhD protect focused on generating evidence to inform Health Region implementation and enhance outcomes in Ireland. What: […]

The Division of Innovation and R&D Management at Chalmers University of Technology is hiring a Doctoral student to work on the project Consensus and Conflict in the Energy Transition, funded by the Swedish Energy Agency. The project brings together researchers from Chalmers, University of Gothenburg, and RISE to investigate how political dynamics shape the pace, […]

We are recruiting a new cohort of doctoral researchers at our Excellence Cluster on „The Politics of Inequality“ at the University of Konstanz. The cluster is an interdisciplinary research center, bringing together scholars from political science, sociology, economics, linguistics, psychology and related disciplines to study the political causes and consequences of inequality. The individiual positions […]

We hereby invite applications for a PhD scholarship at the Department of Political Science. Enrolment will be at the Faculty of Social Sciences under Copenhagen Graduate School of Social Sciences. The position starting date is 1 August 2026, or as soon as possible thereafter. The successful candidate will be part of the research project “Moralizing […]