Fully Funded PhD Studentship in Urban Innovation, Governance, and Leadership at LSE London School of Economics and Political Science

The European Commission has launched the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowships 2026 , a major postdoctoral research funding opportunity for researchers working at the intersection of economics , public policy , and inequality . This post highlights a prestigious European research funding programme with a total budget of €399.05 million . The opportunity is aimed at postdoctoral researchers and is part of the broader MSCA framework supporting advanced research careers and...

Rundong Ning, Assistant Professor in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, is recruiting a PhD student for 2027. The project interests are broad but centered on work and labor , the Global South , Science and Technology Studies (STS) , and/or development . This is a good fit for students interested in social science research on labor, inequality, development processes, and the social study of science and technology. The post does not specify funding, ...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Amsterdam in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences for a project titled Urban Utopias and Urban Policy in Amsterdam . The position is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and focuses on urban policy , urban studies , housing , sociology , anthropology , and qualitative research . The project examines how grassroots and community-led housing initiatives in Amsterdam are creating fairer, more sustainable, and more inclusive alternatives to pro...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in GeoAI at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign , in the Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science (GIS). The Geospatial Computing and Society Lab studies how geospatial technologies are designed, deployed, and governed, with a focus on social consequences and more just futures. Research themes include spatial data science , geospatial artificial intelligence (GeoAI) , critical GeoAI , algorithmic models, data systems, privacy, socio-spatial ...

PhD opportunity at the University of Amsterdam on labour and housing precarity in Amsterdam, within the Urban Impact Lab of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) . The project examines how labour migrants in Amsterdam experience, navigate, and resist precarious living conditions at the intersection of labour and housing. The position is supervised/announced by Emil van Eck (Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam) together with Fenne Pinkster . The vacancy sits in the ...