Doctoral Fellow in Children, Youth and Digital Safety at KU Leuven KU Leuven in Belgium

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is recruiting 3 fully funded PhD researchers for the ERC Starting Grant project GENSCOPE ( GEnder Narratives and adolescents' Socialization across COntexts, Platforms, and Engagements ) in the Department of Information and Communication Sciences (ReSIC), Faculty of Arts, Translation, and Communication. The project examines how digital media use , gender narratives , and adolescents’ interactions with social media, television, and video games shape gender belie...

Dr. Chelly Maes at the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is recruiting 3 fully funded PhD researchers for GENSCOPE , an ERC-funded project on digital media, gender beliefs, body image, sexuality development, adolescent development, mental health, and well-being . The project examines how adolescents navigate conflicting gender narratives across social media, television, and video games , and how these experiences shape beliefs, identity, and well-being. The three PhD projects will focus on: (1...

UCLouvain is advertising a full-time postdoctoral research position in media and communication sciences within the ARC research project CLAIM – Climate Litigation Actions by the Internationally Marginalised . The project sits at the intersection of law , political science , and communication studies . It examines the role and practices of marginalised actors in international climate-change-related litigation, with a particular focus on the communicational and discursive dimensions of these cases...

PhD opportunity at the University of Amsterdam in the project “Agents of doubt: A novel framework for understanding the impact of synthetic content on adolescents’ knowledge formation.” The project focuses on adolescents , AI-generated/synthetic content , mis/disinformation , science communication , and how young people form knowledge, experience epistemic uncertainty, and develop epistemic agency in a media environment shaped by synthetic text, audio, images, and video. The PhD researchers will...

Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) is offering three fully funded PhD positions in the Department of Information and Communication Sciences (ReSIC) within the ERC Starting Grant project GENSCOPE (GEnder Narratives and adolescents' Socialization across COntexts, Platforms, and Engagements), led by Prof. Chelly Maes. The positions are located in Brussels, Belgium, and begin on 1 March 2027. The initial appointment is for one year and can be extended up to four years, subject to doctoral jury appr...