Fully Funded PhD Position in Law/Criminology on Crime Control in Fragmented Societies University of Lausanne in Switzerland

PhD position at the University of Zurich within the MINARET Doctoral Network: A Sociology of Post-Imperial Islamic Legal Cultures , with a regional focus on Central Asia, the Middle East, North Africa, and Southeast Asia. The position is based at the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK), University of Zurich, and is part of a European doctoral network funded by the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions under Horizon Europe. The DC7 project examines how religious, customary, and...

PhD opportunity at the University of Melbourne on “Prison worlds across borders” . This research degree project examines how prisons develop hybrid systems of governance that combine formal rules with informal traditions, norms, and behavioural expectations. The project focuses on carceral order and penal subjectivities across the Global North, Global South, and Global East , with attention to power , gender , legitimacy , and broader transformations in state governance. The opportunity is offer...

Call for Applications: Postdoc Position in Science Communication at the Institute of Communication and Media Research (IKMZ), University of Zurich . The position is in science communication / climate communication and is part of the SciComm Team . The post highlights a strong preference for candidates with an empirical social-science background , and especially those with a research profile in science communication or climate communication. Experience with survey research is also welcome. The ro...

Two PhD positions are available with Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt at the University of Zurich for a new project titled “Governing the Party: How the Chinese Communist Party Holds Itself Together” . The positions are based in the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (IAOS) and are part of an SNSF-funded research project. The project focuses on Chinese politics , party governance , and the internal organization of the Chinese Communist Party , making it especially relevant for applicants inter...

PhD position at the Institute of Law and Economics (ILE-HSG), University of St. Gallen, in AI governance and regulatory foresight . The project examines national AI regulatory portfolios, instrument mixes, predictability of regulatory environments, and early warnings of policy misfit. The doctoral researcher will help develop an openly available dataset, codebook, and an LLM-assisted methodology for analysing EU and national regulation. The position is embedded in the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Acti...