Two Fully Funded PhD Positions in Second Language Acquisition and Study Abroad Research University of Basel in Switzerland

The Department of Languages and Literatures at the University of Basel invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions (100%, four years) within the SNSF Starting Grant project LINC – The Long-Term Impact of Study Abroad on Linguistic Proficiency, Intercultural Competence, and Plurilingualism , led by Dr. Zeynep Köylü . The LINC project examines the short- and long-term impact of study abroad on second language proficiency, intercultural competence, and plurilingualism. Using a longitudi...

Fully funded PhD position in Human Geography at the University of Zurich . The project is part of an SNSF research initiative led by Dr. Sara Landolt and examines racism and classism in Switzerland’s elite secondary schools (Gymnasia). The work involves qualitative fieldwork and interviews with headteachers and students, making it a strong fit for candidates interested in geography, education, sociology, and related social-science research. The position is a 4-year PhD starting in October 2026 ,...

PhD opportunity in Empirical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Münster in Germany . The Graduate School offers an interdisciplinary doctoral programme with a strong focus on linguistics and related areas, including general linguistics , second language acquisition , applied linguistics , German linguistics , English philology , Romance linguistics (French, Italian, Spanish), Dutch philology , Scandinavian studies , Slavic studies , and psycholinguistics . Doctoral researchers can purs...

The Department of Sociology at the University of Zurich is advertising an MSCA Doctoral Position on balancing individual AI-augmentation with organisational stability . The project sits within EMANAIRE , a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network studying how generative AI and agentic AI are changing work, leadership, team communication, professional learning, and career decisions. This PhD focuses on how employees build personalised AI routines, prompt libraries, automations, and shadow ...

University of Bern, Switzerland, is advertising a post-doc (100%) in political communication at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies (icmb) , Faculty of Business, Economics & Social Sciences. The position is linked to an SNF-sponsored cross-national project on how lack of social recognition influences political information usage and effects, with a focus on social identity and identity threats in political information behavior. The role also includes the opportunity to develop and im...