KU Leuven PhD Scholarship

LUCAS at KU Leuven is recruiting a PhD candidate for a four-year research project on the impact of cancer support centres (“inloophuizen”) in Belgium. LUCAS is KU Leuven’s interdisciplinary centre of expertise in care and welfare, with a strong track record of connecting research, practice, and policy to improve quality of life through meaningful innovations in healthcare practice and policy. This project, carried out in collaboration with the Foundation against Cancer and the King Baudouin Foun...

KU Leuven is offering a PhD position in the Faculty of Arts, within the Research Unit Linguistics and the research group Multimodality, Interaction and Discourse. The project focuses on language use in job interviews and related onboarding processes, with a particular emphasis on social identity construction, indexicality, impression management, and gatekeeping in workplace interaction. The research is situated in the context of shortage occupations in residential care centers. It studies recrui...

Ghent University, renowned for its strong tradition of international collaboration, offers an exciting opportunity for Chinese researchers through its partnership with the China Scholarship Council (CSC). This program provides doctoral and postdoctoral scholarships to Chinese nationals, enabling them to pursue research across a wide range of disciplines at Ghent University in Belgium. Each year, approximately 50 PhD students are selected to join Ghent University either for a full PhD, a jointly-...

Fully funded PhD opportunities are available for 2026 at the Primary Care Research Centre, University of Southampton, supported by the NIHR School for Primary Care Research. This doctoral opportunity is aimed at students interested in primary care research, clinical research, and health services research within a leading research environment. Applicants can either apply for one of the two proposed projects or develop and propose their own primary care research idea, making this a flexible route ...

Birmingham Biotech LTD is sponsoring a new MPhil/PhD studentship at the University of Derby focused on preventive therapies , respiratory outcomes , and quality of life , including research relevant to people living with long COVID . The studentship is hosted in Derby’s School of Health, Sport and Rehabilitation and is positioned within health and respiratory research. This is a strong opportunity for prospective doctoral researchers interested in patient-centered outcomes, respiratory health, a...