PhD Research Fellowship in Social Science: Arctic Security and Preparedness Nord University in Norway

Two PhD positions are available with Jean Christopher Mittelstaedt at the University of Zurich for a new project titled “Governing the Party: How the Chinese Communist Party Holds Itself Together” . The positions are based in the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies (IAOS) and are part of an SNSF-funded research project. The project focuses on Chinese politics , party governance , and the internal organization of the Chinese Communist Party , making it especially relevant for applicants inter...

Nord University in Bodø, Norway, invites applications for 1–2 full-time PhD Research Fellow positions in Social Science focusing on critical perspectives on polarization. The project should critically examine how the concept of polarization is mobilized, reproduced and contested in relation to gender, ethnicity and equality. Applicants may develop their own empirical research project addressing social, political and material inequalities, power relations, coloniality, class or marginalization. B...

Nord University in Bodø, Norway, invites applications for 1–2 full-time PhD Research Fellow positions in Social Science specialising in Indigenous History. The doctoral project, “Indigenous Minorities and Historical Revitalisation of Identity in Small Nation States,” will examine how Indigenous and minority communities have experienced nation-building, assimilation policies, identity formation, rights claims, and political and cultural revitalisation from the nineteenth century to the present. T...

The Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) invites applications for a four-year, full-time PhD research fellowship in Sociology in Trondheim, Norway. The project examines power, governance, and the political economy of fighting antimicrobial resistance (AMR), with particular attention to pharmaceutical innovation, markets, regulation, procurement, antibiotic sovereignty, and security of supply. The doctoral researcher will join the interdisciplinary project “Preparedness and Respo...

The University of Oslo invites applications for a three-year, full-time PhD Research Fellow in Political Science at the ARENA Centre for European Studies in Oslo, Norway. The successful candidate will develop an independent doctoral project on Norway’s relationship with the European Union , examining European integration and its consequences for countries inside and outside the EU. Projects may address Norway’s association model, the EEA Agreement, Norwegian political institutions and public adm...