ISS Hardship Fund International Institute of Social Studies in The Hague in Netherlands

The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) brings together eight universities across the Midlands to provide doctoral training in the social sciences and interdisciplinary research areas. Through its Doctoral Training Partnership at the University of Nottingham , the programme offers ESRC-funded PhD studentships for applicants interested in advanced social science research. The doctoral training environment combines research study with structured training and broader support opportunities. Applicants ca...

Cardiff University’s School of Psychology is offering several fully funded WGSSS (ESRC DTP) PhD studentships in the Psychology Pathway , starting in October 2027 . This opportunity is aimed at students interested in doctoral research in psychology within the wider social sciences environment of the Wales Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS) . The studentship is open to both home and international applicants, and up to 30% of the cohort may be international. Funding includes tuition fe...

The Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University offers a one-year postdoctoral fellowship connected with the Center’s Andrew W. Mellon Foundation seminar on migration and the humanities . The fellowship supports humanities and social sciences scholars whose projects examine practices and processes of violence associated with large-scale historical and political transformations. Research may address slow violence , including the gradual degradation of social and economic structures, violatio...

The Rutherford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship is an early career fellowship scheme run by the Royal Society of New Zealand to support New Zealand’s brightest and most promising researchers. The fellowship is designed to build human capability in research, science and technology, and it explicitly includes social sciences and the humanities. It is a broad opportunity rather than a project-specific PhD opening, and it is intended for postdoctoral researchers seeking support at an early stage o...

SVRI Early Career Research Fellowships 2026/2027 support doctoral and postdoctoral research on the intersection of violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC). The fellowship is offered by the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) , with support from the Kering Foundation. It is designed for early-career researchers developing research focused on sexual violence and related forms of violence affecting women and children, particularly in low- and middle-income country co...