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Cardiff University is advertising fully funded PhD studentships for 2027 entry through the Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) ESRC Doctoral Training Partnership . These doctoral opportunities are aimed at prospective researchers interested in the social sciences , with projects developed in consultation with a potential supervisor. The studentship includes full tuition fee coverage , an annual tax-free living stipend (indicative amount: £21,805 for 2026–27 ), a Research Traini...

This doctoral opportunity offers a place on the DPhil programme in Sociology at the University of Oxford , within its Department of Sociology. The programme is built around independent doctoral research and a thesis supervised by one or two academic supervisors, with weekly seminars and regular supervision meetings throughout the degree. Students can work across a broad set of sociological themes, including inequality , education , health , gender , crime , political sociology , and computer-ass...

University of Leeds is advertising ESRC White Rose DTP Studentships 2027/28 for social science doctoral study. These awards support multiple PhD routes across a wide range of disciplines, including Economics , Management , Statistics , Computer Science , Psychology , Sociology , Education , and related social science areas. The studentships are available through the ESRC White Rose Doctoral Training Partnership, a collaboration involving Leeds, Sheffield, York, Bradford, Sheffield Hallam, Hull, ...

The French Family Allowance Fund (Cnaf), the national umbrella organisation of the CAF social security network, is offering support for young researchers working on family and social policy, or on social issues linked to families or poverty. The main opportunity is a three-year PhD contract under the CIFRE programme. In this arrangement, the doctoral researcher is assigned to an organisation and divides their time between Cnaf and their research laboratory. The post is designed for a project wit...

PhD scholarship in Regulatory Delearning in EU Technology Governance at BI Norwegian Business School in Oslo, Norway. This four-year doctoral scholarship is part of REGULAIRE (Regulatory Learning for the Governance of Transformative Technologies), a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Network funded by the European Union under Horizon Europe . The project focuses on regulatory delearning and how institutions revise, retire, or simplify outdated rules in response to technological change. The ...