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, […]
Join our Just Energy Transitions team within the Rinn Energy network to tackle one of the biggest bottlenecks in Ireland’s green transition: 🔬 Research Topic: Overcoming Political, Regulatory & Organisational Barriers to Decarbonisation The successful candidate will investigate the governance and organisational challenges holding back decarbonisation across state, semi-state, and private entities using mixed-methods research, […]
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 […]
We are recruiting for a 4 year fully funded PhD position on a HorizonEurope project. Please reach out if you are interested and have questions, and feel free to forward to students who might be interested. Apologies for cross-posting! Starting date: January 2027 Level of employment: 100% The Sustainability Research Group at the University of […]
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, […]
We are hiring a Postdoctoral Researcher in Urban Policy, Planning and Digital Urban Solutions to join the SmartUrbanity project at the Transport Urban Planning and Economics Laboratory (LAET) in Lyon, France. Project Overview: SmartUrbanity is an innovative research project funded under the Driving Urban Transitions (DUT) Partnership. The project develops a citizen-centric digital framework to […]
Applications are invited for a permanent post of a Assistant Professor in Regional and Urban Planning within UCD School of Architecture The successful candidate will play a pivotal role in shaping the future direction of the planning unit at UCD. We welcome applications from outstanding scholars who can either consolidate and deepen our current institutional […]
The Sussex Energy Group, within the Science Policy Research Unit at the University of Sussex Business School, are seeking to appoint a Senior Research Fellow in Political Economy to work with Professor Matthew Lockwood as part of the Production and Consumption Transformation (PACT) research centre jointly funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) and the […]
Call for Applications: 10 PhD positions in the new DFG Research Training Group „Urban Future – managing transformations for a better health in blue cities“ (RTG 3204/1) The Research Training Group „Urban Future – managing transformations for a better health in blue cities“ examines how urban spaces along rivers and coastlines can be designed and […]
4th edition of the Pavia Winter School in Geography of Innovation in collaboration with Università Bocconi January 11-15 2027 The Geography of Innovation Winter School offers an intensive training programme for doctoral students and junior researchers from any background with interest in the field of geography of innovation. The school provides participants the opportunity to present their ongoing […]
The 11th International Conference on Urban e-Planning brings together interdisciplinary research addressing innovative theoretical and practical developments in Urban e-Planning. The conference is held online, hosted from Lisbon, Portugal, from 5 to 9 April 2027. We welcome theoretical and empirical submissions on, but not limited to, the following themes: Track 1. Smart Urban Governance and […]
Want to turn evidence into real-world policy change? Northumbria University’s Common Sense Policy Group is running a five-day online course, between 19 – 23 October 2026, for postgraduates, early career researchers and policy practitioners. Northumbria has a strong track record of delivering impactful CPD to make a difference across a variety of industries, and this […]
The Centre for Contemporary Political Theory (CCPT) at the University of Leeds invites applications for non-stipendiary Visiting Fellowships at the School of Politics and International Studies (POLIS). Visiting Fellows will benefit from the vibrant research environment at the CCPT and POLIS. In addition, they will have access to the University’s Library and other digital resources. The applications will […]
A PhD position is open in the Department of Geography at the University of Bergen, hosted by the Human Geography and Sustainable Development Research Group. Candidates with interests in political ecology, environmental/conservation social science, or critical development studies are very much welcome to apply. Starting salary: 593,700 NOK, before tax. Norwegian health coverage, 25 paid […]
University of Gothenburg is now hiring a PhD candidate in practical philosophy, with a focus on economic ethics and/or environmental ethics. Economic ethics is the application of moral or political philosophy to critical issues in business organizations or the economic system. Environmental ethics is the application of moral or political philosophy to critical issues in […]
The category of medium-sized cities is one of the most complex and, from a methodological standpoint, constantly debated areas in geography, regional science, or urban studies. Although population-based definitions vary widely (from 50,000 to as many as 1 million people), modern research increasingly emphasises functional relationships rather than demographic indicators. In the European context, medium-sized cities are […]