Funded PhD in Dress Practices, Identity, and Portsmouth 1980s Underground Nightclubs University of Southampton in United Kingdom

The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies at the University of Oxford is welcoming applications for the British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship 2026-2027 . This is a postdoctoral fellowship for outstanding early-career researchers who want to strengthen their research and teaching experience in a university environment while completing a significant piece of publishable research. The fellowship is linked to Global and Area Studies and related research interests such as international relations...

Funded PhD opportunity at the University of Strathclyde's Centre for the Social History of Health and Healthcare. Project title: Unorthodox health activism in Britain after 1948. This PhD explores the history of unorthodox approaches to health in Britain across the 20th and 21st centuries, with a focus on activism and community organising that promoted alternative approaches to health and medicine. The project will examine the experiences of people involved in these alternative health movements ...

Call for applications: British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowships for early-career researchers in Humanities and Social Sciences . This is a 3-year postdoctoral fellowship hosted by The British Academy and undertaken at a UK university or approved research institution . The scheme is designed for scholars who want to develop an independent, high-impact, publishable research project while building teaching experience and academic networks in the UK. Research areas: humanities and social sciences, w...

Fully funded PhD opportunities are open at Edge Hill University through the NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North West Coast (ARC NWC), in partnership with universities across the North West Coast. This post highlights a doctoral project in creative mental health support for children and young people with long-term mental health conditions, using the e-Arts-for-the-Blues digital platform . The project sits within the public health and prevention theme and focuses on an implementation study, ...

PhD studentship at Oxford Brookes University on BMI-based exclusion from fertility treatment , using an ethnographic approach to study how women experience and navigate access restrictions in fertility care. The project is based in the Oxford Institute of Applied Health Research / Oxford School of Nursing and Midwifery and examines how BMI eligibility criteria shape access to NHS and private fertility treatment, with attention to stigma, reproductive autonomy, care perceptions, and socioeconomic...