PhD in Perceptions of Population Decline at ETH Zürich ETH Zürich in Switzerland

ETH Zurich is advertising a doctoral position on cognitive and moral heuristics in lay people’s reactions to climate change adaptation . The project sits at the intersection of psychology , environmental science , social sciences , and climate change adaptation , with a focus on how mental shortcuts shape risk perception, moral considerations, private adaptation behavior, and public support for technologies and regulations. The doctoral thesis aims to generate insights into how cognitive heurist...

PhD opportunity at the University of Basel in the Sustainability Research Group within the Horizon Europe project FAIR4COMMUNITIES . The project develops AI-driven tools for fair, human-centric, and grid-friendly energy sharing across Energy Communities and multi-community ecosystems. This PhD focuses on the societal dimensions of AI-enabled energy sharing, including acceptance, trust, perceived fairness, and participation. The successful candidate will help develop a Societal Readiness Framewor...

EPFL’s Policy & Sustainability (PASU) lab in Lausanne is recruiting a postdoctoral fellow for a new SNSF-funded project on Managing a Just Transition to Net Zero . The project combines economics , public policy , political science , computational social science , and environmental science to study the social and economic consequences of the clean energy transition. Research tasks include measuring economic and job vulnerabilities at the individual and regional level, collecting original survey d...

CAM-Doctoral Training Partnership (CAM-DTP) is advertising ESRC-funded PhD studentships starting in October 2027 across Anglia Ruskin University , University of Bedfordshire , and University of Cambridge . This opportunity is aimed at doctoral researchers in the social sciences , with research themes spanning net zero, environment, biodiversity and climate change , digital society , health and social care , security, risk and resilience , and understanding behaviour . Example topic areas mention...

PhD opportunity at the University of Basel in Psychology of Sustainability and Behavior Change . The position is based in the newly established research group Sustainability and Behavior Change within the Faculty of Psychology. The project focuses on understanding how environments and behavior change interventions can be designed to systematically promote pro-environmental behaviors . The PhD candidate will contribute by experimentally examining human behaviors of environmental relevance using b...