PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Anthropology in Finland

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting two Postdoctoral Researchers in Applied Language Studies for a four-year fixed-term project starting 3 May 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter. The positions are part of the profiling action project “Language, Diversity, and Participation in Technology-Driven Society” (LADiTS) , hosted by the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) and the Department of Language and Communication Studies . The LADiT...

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting two Doctoral Researchers for a three-year fixed-term period within the profiling action project Language, Diversity, and Participation in Technology-Driven Society (LADiTS) . The positions are based primarily at the Centre for Applied Language Studies and linked to the Department of Language and Communication Studies. The project examines how language shapes participation, epistemic diversity, and social j...

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join the Multimodality Research Group in the Department of Languages. The position is part of an ERC-funded project led by Professor Tuomo Hiippala and focuses on developing novel methods and corpora for studying multimodality: how people communicate through combinations of multiple expressive modes. The project studies everyday cultural artefacts such as school textbooks, news broadcasts, diagrams...

This postdoctoral position is based in the Global Change and Biotic Interactions Ecology group at the University of Oulu and is part of the Research Council of Finland-funded project “Mechanisms of Plant Biodiversity Change” . The project is led by Prof. Anu Eskelinen and focuses on understanding why plant biodiversity changes unevenly across space and in response to global change. The successful researcher will work on questions about the mechanisms shaping plant community change, including the...

The University of Oulu is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for the General Education Research unit at the Faculty of Education and Psychology. The role sits within DATAVOID (From a Void to the Cloud? Data Centres in the Afterlives of Arctic Industries), an interdisciplinary research project examining how data centres emerge in post-industrial northern communities and how they relate to the legacies of earlier industries. The post is designed for a researcher who will develop a comparative st...

The University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Arts is offering a full-time, three-year doctoral researcher position in archaeology, with the work located in the Department of Cultures. The position is linked to the Academy of Finland–funded SRTOOL project, led by Academy Research Fellow Maria Lahtinen, and places the doctoral researcher in a strongly international, interdisciplinary setting. The project focuses on strontium isotope tools for tracing mobility connected to aquatic diets across the past,...

Two postdoctoral researchers are sought for the Research Council of Finland-funded project “the Epistemic Significance of Concepts” at the University of Helsinki’s Theoretical Philosophy unit. The project is led by Academy Professor Maria Lasonen and is situated within a broader research environment in epistemology, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and history of philosophy. The project investigates the epistemic role of concepts from a broad...

Planetary Mind is a multidisciplinary research project in the Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä. The project examines how environmental agency —the ability to make sustainable everyday choices—relates to mental health across age groups. The postdoctoral researcher will contribute to a consortium project that brings together professors, postdoctoral researchers, doctoral researchers, an interaction specialist, a project manager, and national and international collaborators. ...

Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology at the University of Oulu’s Department of Cultural Anthropology, within the Faculty of Humanities, in the EU-funded MITIME doctoral network. The project sits at the intersection of migration, temporality, labour, and urban change in post-industrial Europe. The doctoral researcher will develop an original PhD project in Cultural Anthropology under the provisional theme “Imagining and Representing Urban Pasts and Futures.” The research examines how industrialisa...