PhD in Sociology of Law – Civil Islam and Non-Coercive Governance Lund University in Sweden

PhD opportunity in Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden. The project is titled Securitisation of Religion in Hybrid Regimes and focuses on post-imperial Islamic legal cultures, with empirical attention to Uzbekistan and Egypt. The doctoral candidate will study how governments mobilise religious narratives to justify security policies and governance strategies, and how religion becomes embedded in state security frameworks. Research environment and supervision: The successful candidate wil...

PhD opportunity in Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden. The project is titled Civil Islam and Non-Coercive Governance Across Post-Imperial Islamic Societies in Central Asia, Southeast Asia, and North Africa and is part of the MINARET / NORCA research environment at the Sociology of Law Department. The doctoral project examines how civil Islam, legal mobilisation, and faith-based movements can contribute to non-coercive governance and constitutional participation in Tunisia, Indonesia, an...

PhD opportunity in Technology and Society at Lund University This doctoral position is part of REGULAIRE (Regulatory Learning for the Governance of Transformative Technologies), an MSCA doctoral network studying how regulation can learn and adapt when technologies, risks, and expectations change quickly. The project is hosted at LTH, Lund University , within the Department of Technology and Society and the research group led by Stefan Larsson , with a focus on social science-oriented, multidisci...

PhD opportunity in Sociology of Law at Lund University, Sweden. This doctoral position is part of the MINARET Doctoral Network and focuses on women’s legal agency in post-imperial Islamic legal cultures across Central Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa , with specific empirical attention to Tunisia, Lebanon, and Uzbekistan . The project examines how women use Islamic and secular legal frameworks to claim rights, challenge discrimination, and expand access to justice. The successful candidat...

Postdoctoral Fellow in Political Science at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, within the Mistra CLEAN research programme. The project examines the links between institutional failure and environmental challenges, including corruption, policy and regulatory capture, environmental crime, accountability, and institutional resilience. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute mainly to work packages based at the University of Gothenburg, especially on vulnerability analysis and corruption risk...