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

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...

Two doctoral researcher positions are available in the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, based on the Joensuu Campus. The posts are part of the Research Council of Finland-funded project “Trees and the travels of knowledge: making modern (trans)imperial forestry from the margins, 1917–1939” , which investigates how forestry research moved across borders and how local forestry practices became part of global science in the interwar period. The...

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,...

The University of Helsinki is offering a 36-month doctoral researcher position in archaeobotany within the Research Council of Finland-funded NeoPlant project, which studies plant use, cultivation and the cultural roles of plants in Neolithic Finland (ca. 3000–1500 BCE). The project examines a major transition in human history: the shift from hunting and gathering towards food production and farming, while also recognising the continued importance of hunting, fishing and gathering in Neolithic F...

The University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Social Sciences is offering a doctoral researcher position in a project on education-related inequalities. The post is based in the Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health and is part of a Research Council of Finland funded project, Education – a Universal Solvent? Towards a Cross-Disciplinary Synthesis . The project examines educational differences across several connected research areas: intergenerational social stratification, population...

The University of Eastern Finland is recruiting three doctoral researchers for the School of Computing on the Kuopio campus to join the ERC-funded MINE-THE-GAP project. The project combines satellite imagery, mining data reports, and AI to study mining activities and their impacts worldwide, with a focus on improving transparency and sustainability in mining. Each doctoral researcher will lead an individual thesis within one of three research themes: mapping mining land use through semantic segm...

Two doctoral researcher positions are available at the Department of Geographical and Historical Studies at the University of Eastern Finland, based on the Joensuu Campus. The successful candidates will join a Research Council of Finland-funded project on the history of forestry knowledge and its international movement in the interwar period. The project investigates how local forestry practices were transformed into global science between 1917 and 1939, and how Nordic forestry became entangled ...

This postdoctoral position is based in the Ecology and Genetics Research Unit at the University of Oulu and is part of the European Union LIFE project “LIFE in Support of Survival” . The project is centered on the Saimaa ringed seal , a critically endangered endemic species living only in Lake Saimaa, Finland. The successful candidate will contribute to conservation genomics research aimed at supporting the long-term survival of this population. The project combines genetic research, population ...

The Turku Collegium for Science, Medicine and Technology (TCSMT) at the University of Turku invites applications for four junior group leader positions and four postdoctoral researcher positions in science, medicine and technology. The appointments are based in Turku, Finland, and support independent or collaborative research within the University's multidisciplinary STEM and health research environment. Research areas may include biology, biochemistry, bioinformatics, biomedicine, biomedical en...