The University of Birmingham’s School of Social Policy and Society is offering a fully funded PhD studentship focused on integrating neuroimaging and life-course analysis in justice-involved women. This interdisciplinary project investigates whether patterns of trauma and social adversity in women meeting ICD-11 criteria for complex post-traumatic stress disorder (cPTSD) are associated with changes in neural and behavioural indices of inhibitory control and emotion regulation, compared to matche...

The Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network, SUPER (Sustainable Sports and Physical Activity for Equity and Resilience), offers an exciting PhD fellowship at Audencia Business School. This position focuses on radically rethinking how physical activity and sport equipment networks can contribute to fighting climate change through circularity and sustainability. The successful candidate will be registered as a fee-free PhD student at Audencia and enrolled in the SUPER Doctoral Network, with opportuni...

Join the Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network, SUPER, as a PhD Fellow at Audencia Business School and contribute to radically rethinking how physical activity is promoted and practised to fight climate change. This position offers a unique opportunity to research circularity in sport event networks, including federations, clubs, events, athletes, and spectators. The project aims to transform business models, supply chains, and entire ecosystems around sport events towards sustainability, with a ...

PhD Opportunity in Transnational Education Policy and Qualitative Research at KU Leuven Kulak KU Leuven Kulak’s Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences & COOLS invites applications for a four-year, full-time PhD project titled “The Discursive and Affective Governance of Teach for All.” This research explores how teacher training policies, specifically through the Teach for All initiative, are mobilized and adapted across national borders, focusing on the Belgian and French contexts. The p...

Radboud University’s Faculty of Social Sciences in Nijmegen, Netherlands, is offering a fully funded PhD position as part of the NWO-funded WECARE project, titled “Women building cities: Overcoming violence and transforming the city with communities of care.” This research opportunity is situated within the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies and focuses on how women in peripheral Latin American communities create safer, more sustainable, and democratic urban spaces through grassr...

The Faculty of Law at Charles University in Prague is offering a fully funded PhD position within the research project "Psychological Limits to Algorithmic Sentencing," supervised by Assistant Professor Michał Kłusek. This four-year doctoral opportunity focuses on the intersection of law, psychology, and artificial intelligence, specifically investigating the psychological and moral boundaries of delegating legal judgment to AI systems. The project addresses critical questions about justice, aut...

The Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland, is inviting applications for two full-time PhD positions as part of the ERC Starting Grant Project “Legal Governmentality - governing climate activism through criminal law and human rights in Europe (LeGo)” (2026–2031). The project investigates how climate activism, particularly civil disobedience, is governed through legal frameworks, criminal law, and human rights discourses in Europe, with a foc...

The University of Edinburgh is offering a fully-funded ESRC PhD studentship focused on the educational experiences of neurodivergent young people. The project, led by Dr Katie Cebula (Senior Lecturer in Developmental Psychology), Dr Michael Fleming, and Dr Patricio Troncoso, aims to explore how social inequalities and child/family factors influence school attendance among neurodivergent students. The research will employ quantitative analysis of administrative data and will actively involve a ne...

The Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) is inviting applications for a three-year, full-time PhD position as part of the Research Council of Norway–funded project 'Knowledge for reconciliation: Truth and contestation in the aftermath of the Norwegian truth and reconciliation commission (RECON)'. This project, led by Research Professor Inger Skjelsbæk, investigates the role of truth and reconciliation commissions (TRCs) in fostering reconciliation in liberal states with histories of settler colo...