PhD Opportunity in Everyday Cycling, Social and Cultural Anthropology, and Ethnographic Research at the University of Vienna University of Vienna in Austria

The Institute for Social Anthropology (ISA) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna is offering a full-time postdoc position in climate/environmental anthropology for 24 months, from 1 January 2027 to 31 December 2028. The post is part of the ERC-funded project Climate and contemporary transformations of vernacular architecture , led by Huberrt Feiglstorfer, and focuses on how climate and climate change shape vernacular architecture in Alpine and Himalayan regions. The successful researche...

Deadline approaching: a fully funded postdoc position in Social Anthropology is open for a project on Yemen , based in Vienna, Austria . The position is part of the ERC Advanced Grant project IDEO-YEMEN and focuses on the ideology of Yemen’s Ansar Allah (Houthi) movement . The advertised research theme is (In)Equalities: Gender, Descent, and 'Race' , with attention to how these questions are debated, experienced, and enacted in areas under Ansar Allah’s rule. The post is described as a 4-year, f...

PhD Vacancy: Knowledge Creation and Sharing in Augmented Organisations at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) , Netherlands. This doctoral project is part of EMANAIRE (Empowering Human Agency in AI-Augmented Futures of Work), a Horizon Europe Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network . The research focuses on how generative AI is changing learning, expertise, responsibility, and relationships at work, especially in everyday organisational life. The position is based at Vrije Universiteit Ams...

Max Planck Institute of Geoanthropology in Jena, Germany is advertising PhD Researcher positions in Quantitative Past Urban Studies within the Department of Coevolution of Land Use and Urbanization. The project focuses on quantitative, historical, and archaeological urban research, with particular emphasis on analyzing urban patterns and processes across large past datasets through the URBank initiative. The successful candidate will work on multidisciplinary research spanning archaeology, histo...

Postdoctoral Researcher opportunity at Birkbeck, University of London in the School of Social Sciences , working on the AHRC-DFG funded project Forging And Belonging (FABRIC) . The project investigates how the changing value of craft in Senegal and Benin shapes social belonging and imagined futures among teenagers in craft families. The research draws on ethnographic data collected from families in three villages in each country, including participant ethnographies with potters, weavers, and bla...