Opportunities Categories: PHD

About the Project Increasingly, everyday life in cities generates data (eg in monetary transactions, use of GPS for wayfinding, locative capacities of most smartphones) and is generated by data (eg traffic flows, regulatory capacities of satnavs etc). This project will study datafication in two or three Southeast Asian cities, to contribute to knowledge and understanding of […]

The Department of Geography and Environment at Loughborough University is inviting applications for a Doctoral Studentship to start in October 2026. “Why and how are some lives depicted and positioned as expendable while others are deemed not just worth protecting but also of exemplary treatments?” is the question that broadly drives this project given the […]

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. Deadline: May 4, 2026, 3:00 p.m. (Italian time zone) L’Aquila, the capital city of the […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]