Opportunities Categories: PHD

Reforming the Games: Securing sustainability in the Olympic Games bidding process Supervisory team: Dr Adam Talbot, Prof David McGillivray, and Dr Chloe Maclean The University of the West of Scotland is offering an exciting opportunity for a fully funded PhD studentship to explore the sustainability of reforms to the Olympics bidding process. Interest in hosting […]

The research group at the Environmental Social Sciences Department at Eawag (Switzerland) has a job opening for a PhD position on multi-scalar sustainability transitions in urban mobility. The position is fully funded through a grant by the Swiss National Science Foundation for four years with a preferred start date in Aug/Sept 2023. Deadline for applications […]

Here at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford have a fully funded 3.5 year PhD vacancy currently open. The student will be expected to pursue a socio-technical, interdisciplinary approach, mobilizing a variety of concepts and theories from across policy studies, science and technology studies, sustainability transitions and governance more broadly. The studentship will benefit from […]

The Department of Social Sciences and Business, Roskilde University, invites applications for a position as PhD fellow of international studies from January 2nd 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The position as PhD is limited to a period of 3 years. The Doctoral School You will be enrolled as a PhD fellow at the […]

The Doctoral Programme in Sociology and Social Research within the School in Social Sciences of the University of Trento, Italy, is seeking to fill 5 PhD positions (4 year grant, starting November 1st 2023). The deadline for applications is June 20, 2023, 16:00 (Italian time). Note that you should apply with your own project. Call: […]

At our newly founded Department of Sociology and Human Geography at the Paris Lodron University in Salzburg (PLUS), we are currently looking for applicants for a PhD position. What you can expect: highly innovative working and research environment in a dynamic and interdisciplinary team excellent general conditions for dissertation as well as many stimulating opportunities […]

At Leiden University, we have vacancies for 4 PhD candidates (4-years each): PhD Candidate on Labour Market Mobility PhD Candidate on the Economics & Politics of Migration PhD Candidate on Distributional Effects of Climate Policy PhD Candidate on Housing Search in a Digitalized World   Further information: The PhD position is for 0.8-1.0 fte. Starting […]

PhD position: Psychologically validated digital twins of human decision-making in urban mobility Deadline: May 31st Digital twins of urban mobility are widely used to understand and predict traffic flow in and through cities. The PhD research project will investigate how individual differences in decision-making can be modeled in digital twins of urban mobility (e.g., cars, pedestrians, cyclists, […]

PhD Position for Researching on the Spatial Implications of the Energy Transition We are looking for a full time PhD researcher to work on the challenges and opportunities of the renewable energy transition for land transformation and planning. Today, about 80% of energy is consumed in concentrated urban areas. Urban lifestyles and consumption patterns are […]

At NTNU, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, we have two fully funded 3-year vacancies as PhD candidates within Science and Technology studies. Both positions focus on aspects related to energy and sustainability transitions and could also be of interest to scholars with other relevant backgrounds in the social sciences and humanities. Both projects are […]

PhD Studentship in Human Geography: ‘North and South: Regional Health Inequalities in England’ Newcastle University Qualification Type: PhD Location: Newcastle upon Tyne Funding for: UK Students, EU Students, International Students Funding amount: Not Specified Hours: Full Time Placed On: 28th April 2023 Closes: 26th May 2023 Reference: GPSWT01 Award Summary Full tuition fees at the […]

About the Project The classical North-South spillover thesis no longer can account for the development dynamics across the globe, whereby the new millennium has witnessed the increasing rise of Neo-Techno-Nationalism (NTN) which is characterized by the nation state’s nationalistic ambitions to boost indigenous capabilities and to nurture leading position in key sectors. Unlike older forms […]

PhD student in Geography with an emphasis on Human Geography in the area of Urban Africa at The Department of Human Geography. Closing date: 1 June 2023. The Department of Human Geography is a dynamic and strong education- and research department at the Faculty of Social Sciences at Stockholm University. The Department aims to be nationally leading and internationally […]

PhD student in Geography with an emphasis on Human geography within residential mobility, segregation, neighborhood studies, housing studies, or migration at the Department of Human Geography. Closing date: 1 June 2023. The Department of Human Geography announces one vacant position in the doctoral program. The PhD student will be a part of the Population geography research group […]

  The EU funded Marie Curie Doctoral Network Project GreeNexUS is now hiring! The call for all 10 PhD positions will be open until 4 June 2023. More information can be found on Euraxess or on the project website: https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/79974 / https://greenexus.unibo.it/ GreeNexUS stands for: “Green-health-safety Nexus for new Urban Spaces” and the project aims […]

The Gran Sasso Science Institute, a public research university dedicated to doctoral education in L’Aquila, Italy, has advertised 10 fully funded doctoral positions in its English-taught PhD programme in Regional Science & Economic Geography.   The aim of the PhD programme in Regional Science and Economic Geography is to address issues related to local and regional development. The methodological perspective of […]

In addition to ethnicity, the department will consider other demographic characteristics as outlined for access and participation by the OfS (e.g. low polar quintile, low IMD quintile, disability, mature status, care giving, coming from a low performing school, no parental background in Higher Education). Undergraduate performance and A level grades at entry into university will […]