Opportunities Categories: PHD

 Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide): Place-Based Industrial Strategy and Regional Growth About the Project We invite applications from highly motivated candidates to undertake a 3–4-year Full-time PhD beginning in September 2027 who are interested in exploring the role of coworking spaces as organisational actors and their wider regional impact: by supporting entrepreneurship, as actors […]

 Competition Funded PhD Project (Students Worldwide): Place-Based Industrial Strategy and Regional Growth About the Project We welcome applications from highly motivated PhD candidates interested in place-based industrial strategy, regional development, innovation, and economic growth. Industrial strategy has re-emerged as a central policy agenda in the UK, Europe, and globally. Governments increasingly seek to address regional […]

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 […]

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 […]