Opportunities Categories: PHD

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, […]

We are recruiting a PhD candidate to work on spatial planning and water scarcity in the Netherlands and Flanders. There is some freedom for the candidate to further define the research, but Dutch language skills are a requirement for fieldwork. Please see details online. The deadline for applications is 2 June 2025. To apply: https://www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/phd-spatial-governance-of-water-scarcity-in-the-netherlands-and-flanders-belgium-1.htm

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 […]