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

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...

INFLUENCE is an MSCA Doctoral Network, “Legacies, Interdependencies, Power: Russian Influences in the European Periphery,” bringing together five universities across Europe to study Russian influence in Europe through interdisciplinary research, advanced methods training, and engagement with policy stakeholders. The University of Helsinki project, “Teaching Authoritarianism: Russia’s Role in Promoting Illiberal Governance,” examines how illiberal governance models inspired by Russian practices s...

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...

This PhD opening is based in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki , within the Department of Pharmacology and Drug Therapy . The project focuses on medication safety and treatment effectiveness as part of social and clinical pharmacy research. The doctoral researcher will work on developing new effective operating models, methods and evidence to identify, prevent and manage medication-related risks in social and healthcare. The main research areas include risk management for med...

The Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki is seeking a doctoral researcher in social and clinical pharmacy for a fixed-term employment relationship of up to five years. The position is based in the Department of Pharmacology and Drug Therapy. The research area sits within a multidisciplinary health sciences field that focuses on optimizing patients’ medication use, promoting health, and preventing disease. The advertised area covers the use, availability, and effectiveness of medicin...

This doctoral opening is based in the Humans, Security and Privacy research group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University. The project sits at the intersection of human-computer interaction , psychology, and human-centered security, with a focus on how people experience security and privacy online and how they respond to digital deception , including social engineering. The central research theme is how users judge whether a digital request is genuine when convincing messages, ...

INFLUENCE is an MSCA Doctoral Network on Russian influence in Europe’s periphery, bringing together five universities across Europe and combining interdisciplinary expertise in political science, international relations, sociology, history, media studies, security studies, area studies, and political economy. The University of Helsinki project focuses on how migration is used as a tool of influence and destabilisation in Europe’s eastern periphery. The doctoral researcher will investigate how Ru...

A fixed-term postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Eastern Finland in the field of humanities or theology. The appointment is designed to support early postdoctoral development after the doctorate, with a strong emphasis on building a research profile that can lead to external funding and an independent academic career. The post is structured around a research plan with work packages and sub-goals, prepared together with a mentor and info...

The University of Lapland’s Faculty of Law is recruiting one funded PhD Junior Researcher for the Arctic Transitions (AT) project, “Arctic Transitions, Energy and Climate Governance Horizons in the Far North.” The full-time position is based in Rovaniemi, Finland, with remote working possible within Finland. The project investigates how climate change and demand for rare and valuable earth materials are reshaping extraction activities, infrastructures, security configurations, governance arrange...