Fully Funded Master of Advanced Studies in Humanitarian Action (MAS) at University of Geneva University of Geneva in Switzerland

Two postdoctoral positions are advertised in the SNSF Starting Grant project “Provisional Futures: Migrants as wanted workers, yet temporary residents” at the University of Zurich. The positions focus on research related to Canada and Japan , making this a strong opportunity for scholars interested in migration studies, sociology, anthropology, political science, and international relations. The project title suggests work on migrant labor, temporary residency, and the social/political condition...

The UZH Department of Political Science (IPZ) is inviting applications for a three-year postdoctoral position in the research group of Fabrizio Gilardi at the University of Zurich . The appointment runs from January 2027 to December 2029 . The position combines independent and collaborative research on digital technology and politics , broadly defined, with some teaching at the BA and/or MA level . The post is especially relevant for candidates working in political science , computational social...

PhD Position in Law and/or Political Science: Governance of Climate Extremes at the University of Bern (UniBE), Switzerland. This PhD is embedded in NCCR CLIM+ , a newly established SNSF-funded National Center of Competence and Switzerland-wide interdisciplinary climate research community focused on climate extremes and actionable adaptation/mitigation responses. The project sits in Workpackage 3 and examines governance and justice around the regulation of climate extremes such as droughts, floo...

PhD position at the University of Zurich , Department of Geography, in the Political Geography Group on Pastoralist Futures: Land Transformation in East Africa's Drylands . The project examines the longue durée of pastoralist land transformation at the intersection of climate change , state intervention, capitalist practices, land-use and land-cover change, property regimes, and pastoralist agency. The dissertation will focus on pastoralist territories in Southern Ethiopia and Northern Kenya . T...

University of Bern, Switzerland, is advertising a post-doc (100%) in political communication at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies (icmb) , Faculty of Business, Economics & Social Sciences. The position is linked to an SNF-sponsored cross-national project on how lack of social recognition influences political information usage and effects, with a focus on social identity and identity threats in political information behavior. The role also includes the opportunity to develop and im...