Parliament hosts events open to researchers from any discipline and career-level, and delivers training across the UK. Find the full list of opportunities here. Online training for researchers and knowledge mobilisers We offer online training, with sessions tailored for researchers at different career stages plus knowledge mobilisers (people working in roles focused on sharing research from […]
This project is funded by: Department for the Economy (DfE) Vice Chancellor’s Research Scholarship (VCRS) Summary Family-owned SMEs are vital to the economic and social fabric of Northern Ireland, particularly in rural and peripheral areas where they often provide employment, sustain local supply chains and contribute to community resilience. Yet many of these businesses face […]
As one of Europe’s leading research universities, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich is committed to the highest international standards of excellence in research and teaching. Building on its more than 500-year-long tradition, it offers a broad spectrum that covers all areas of knowledge within its 18 Faculties, ranging from the humanities, law, economics and social sciences, […]
The School of Government and International Affairs (SGIA) at Durham University seeks to appoint an exceptional scholar to the Sheikh Nasser Bin Muhammad Al-Sabah Chair and Professor in International Relations, Regional Politics and Security. The successful candidate will provide intellectual and strategic leadership for the Sheikh Nasser Bin Muhammad Al-Sabah Programme in International Relations, Regional […]
PhD Position on Ethnic Inequalities in Housing – Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB), Germany The Federal Institute for Population Research (BiB) is seeking a doctoral researcher to join the DFG-funded project “The Ethnic Stratification of Housing”, led by Nils Witte. The project examines immigrants’ housing trajectories and ethnic inequalities in housing, with a focus […]
We invite applications for a 4-year, full-time PhD scholarship related to the project Recycling and Environmental Remittances (RECYREM) funded by the Spanish State Research Agency and based at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (UAB), PI Eva Østergaard-Nielsen. Please forward this within your networks to any highly motivated candidate interested in developing a PhD thesis on […]
We would like to kindly invite you to the joint webinar by MountResilience and MOUNTADAPT: Climate Resilience in Mountain Regions: Connecting Knowledge, Sectors and Solutions. Date & Time: 15 December | 10:00 – 11:30 CET Registration: Teams Webinar Background & Objective: Mountain regions are among the territories most exposed to the impacts of climate change, […]
Four postdoctoral positions — SOCIAL project, University of Milan Applications are open for four 18-month postdoctoral positions at the Department of Social and Political Sciences, University of Milan, Italy, within the project SOCIAL – Social relations, digital technologies and wellbeing of older people, led by Professor Bruno Arpino and funded by the Italian Ministry of […]
The University of Barcelona School of Economics and the Chair of Energy Sustainability (IEB -Barcelona Institute of Economics, University of Barcelona, UB) invite expressions of interest for a three-year postdoctoral position in Environmental and Energy Economics, starting in September 2027, with an earlier start possible by agreement. The successful candidate will join the project “Boosting […]
Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology | MSCA Doctoral Network MITIME Location: University of Oulu, Finland Duration: 3 years full-time Application deadline: 27 November 2026 Start date: 1 February 2027 The Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network MITIME (Entanglements of Migration and Time in Post-industrial Urban Europe) is recruiting a doctoral researcher in cultural anthropology at the University of Oulu, Finland. […]
We are seeking candidates for a PhD position funded by the PEPR “Ville durable et bâtiments innovants” program (“Sustainable Cities and Innovative Buildings”), as part of the PÉRENNIS Pérennité du bâti et des infrastructures face aux stress climatiques project (“Sustainability of Buildings and Infrastructure in the Face of Climate Stresses”). This PhD thesis in geography, specifically […]
On behalf of the Search Committee of the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven in Belgium, we would be grateful if you could share the following vacancy within your department, professional networks, and among colleagues who may know outstanding potential candidates. The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven […]
InstitutionFaculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Natural Sciences, Department of Earth System Sciences Salary levelEGR. 13 TV-L Start date01.01.2027, fixed for a period of three years (This is a fixed-term contract in accordance with Section 2 of the academic fixed-term labor contract act [Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz, WissZeitVG]).The contract provides for a maximum extension of up to three years […]
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 […]
This year’s Campaign for Social Science Annual Sage Lecture will be delivered by Professor Dame Diane Coyle FAcSS, Bennett Professor of Public Policy and Research Director, Bennett School of Public Policy, University of Cambridge. Andy Burnham has set out an ambition for “growth in every postcode”. Professor Dame Diane Coyle, FAcSS, will discuss this challenge, […]
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 […]
Livable Towns, Cities, Regions: From Urban Conservation to Climate Action In person in Dublin, Ireland, and virtually: 28–30 June 2027 Abstract deadlines: 5 December 2026 (Round One) and 10 April 2027 (Round Two) Organised by University College Dublin and AMPS Research, this interdisciplinary conference examines how towns, cities and regions can respond to climate change, […]
Is ‘Manchesterism’ a model that can – or should – be replicated elsewhere? ‘Manchesterism’ has gone national. With Andy Burnham now in Downing Street, the experiment in regional leadership, devolution and place-based growth that has developed in Greater Manchester is no longer simply a story about Manchester. It is potentially a blueprint for how the […]
In west Belfast, a community group is campaigning for the council to formally adopt an alleyway they describe as dangerous (Lynch 2025). It is a small, almost bureaucratic request: recognise this lane as part of the public road network, so someone is responsible for maintaining it. Yet it captures something larger about how Belfast’s back […]
Maximilian Benner is an economist and economic geographer with a habilitation degree (venia docendi) in human geography. As senior scientist and senior lecturer at the University of Vienna and non-tenured associate professor (“Privatdozent”) at the University of Klagenfurt, he focuses on the geography of emission-intensive industries (e.g., chemical regions), just transitions and their place-based political, […]