Opportunities Categories: PHD

Project: InCommon – Reconceptualizing Individual and Collective Housing Preferences  Positions: 2 Full-Time PhD Researchers (1.0 FTE) Duration: 48 months, fixed-term Start date: 1 October 2025 (or as soon as possible thereafter) Are you passionate about housing, sustainability, and social change? Join an international, interdisciplinary research team at TU Delft and explore how shared and collective […]

We are recruiting for a PhD scholarship at Deakin University in Narrm/Melbourne, Australia. This opportunity is appropriate for postgraduates interested in conducting their own ethnographic research centring on net zero in northern Australia. The successful candidate will develop their own project but will also be part of the Australian Research Council Discovery Project “Embedding Net Zero […]

The DSI‑NRF Research Chair in City and Regional Economies at the University of the Free State (South Africa) is pleased to announce a call for applications for a range of postgraduate research positions and scholarships that cover fees, living expenses and other costs.Successful applicants will join a dynamic research community led by Professor Ivan Turok. […]

The Sir Terry Leahy Doctoral Scholarship in Urban and Regional Economics, Economic Geography, or Real Estate and Regeneration Analysis Register interest here About the Project Applications are invited for a fully-funded four-year doctoral scholarship in the fields of urban and regional economics and economic geography, with a particular focus on understanding of the economic, social, […]

The School of Governance, Law and Society at Tallinn University is seeking to recruit a highly motivated and talented PhD student to join the ERA Chair in Sustainable Futures project (SustainERA, DOI: 10.3030/101186958). The general PhD topic, “Policy Development for Governing Sustainability Transitions,” will be supervised by Prof. Leif Kalev (main supervisor) and Dr. Tarmo […]

We are looking for an ambitious PhD student to analyze the political ecology of coastal urbanization by developing a qualitative case study on the labour and workers behind dredging and land reclamation in Singapore, an often invisiblized labour that nevertheless laid the foundation for this global city of finance and trade. The focus is on […]

We are recruiting a PhD researcher for the project Aspirational Urbanism and the Recodification of Defiance, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation. The PhD is planned as a joint degree with the University of Basel and University of Amsterdam, and is fully funded for 4 years. The ideal candidate is fluent in Mandarin, Cantonese […]

We have an open position for a research associate / PhD to join our project on contemporary manifestations of authoritarian urbanism in Hungary and Serbia, which is meant to start in September 2025. We are looking for people with an urban studies background (master in geography, sociology, urban planning, architecture and related fields) who are […]

The Covid-19 pandemic led to a substantial growth in the level of home-based and flexible working, and higher levels of such working have persisted in the post-Covid period. This shift in working patterns has had varied and wide-ranging impacts on both the mobility patterns of such workers and their mental and social wellbeing, which have […]