MITIME, a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network, is offering 15 fully funded PhD positions focused on the study of migration, inequality, and urban life in post-industrial Europe. This EU-funded programme provides early-stage researchers with international, interdisciplinary, and intersectoral training, aiming to advance cutting-edge theory and methods in understanding human mobility as a multi-directional, contingent, and relational process. Doctoral researchers will join a vibrant network of...

The University of Sheffield School of Architecture and Landscape is offering a short-term postdoctoral research position focused on access to nature for children and young people. The project centers on conducting an academic, practice, and policy literature review and contributing writing for a Natural England publication. The research will address barriers and enablers for children and young people accessing and engaging in nature and green spaces, with a UK focus. The successful candidate wil...

The Leverhulme Unit for the Design of Cities of the Future (LUDeC) at Manchester Metropolitan University offers a transdisciplinary doctoral programme that integrates the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences to address contemporary urban challenges. The programme encourages collaboration across disciplines, such as artists working with sociologists, historians with designers, and literary scholars with geographers, to foster a co-creative approach to urban design. LUDeC aims to promote a more h...

A fully funded PhD studentship is available at Birmingham City University, UK, focusing on Smart Urban Energy Systems. The research will integrate Deep Learning, Digital Twins, and real-time energy data to transform cities into positive energy hubs. The project aims to advance the use of AI and digital innovation for sustainable urban development, with a particular emphasis on energy optimisation and analytics. The successful candidate will join a team led by Dr. Syed Attique Shah (main supervis...

SOAS, University of London is offering two fully-funded PhD positions in the Media Department (Centre for Global Media and Communications) as part of the ERC-funded CHINA.EU project. These interdisciplinary PhDs focus on human geography, media studies, cultural industries, and global China, with research themes including platform urbanism, infrastructure studies, and wanghong urbanism. Successful candidates will be based at SOAS and conduct fieldwork in France (PhD 1) or Germany (PhD 2). The pos...

Two fully-funded PhD positions are available at SOAS, University of London, in the Media Department (Centre for Global Media and Communications), as part of the ERC-funded CHINA.EU project. The research is interdisciplinary, focusing on human geography, media studies, cultural industries, and global China, with themes such as platform urbanism, infrastructure studies, and wanghong urbanism. The PhDs will be supervised by Dr Carwyn Morris and other faculty members, and will include fieldwork in F...