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

The University of Jyväskylä is advertising two postdoctoral researcher positions in applied language studies at the Centre for Applied Language Studies (Solki). Solki is a university research institute that produces research-based knowledge on language education and on language-related phenomena, needs, and challenges in a changing society. The centre’s research is organised around three main areas: the assessment of language proficiency and learning, language learning/teaching/competence, and l...

The University of Jyväskylä is advertising two doctoral researcher positions in applied language studies at the Centre for Applied Language Studies (Solki). Solki is a research institute that produces evidence-based knowledge about language education and about language-related phenomena, needs, and challenges in a changing society. The centre’s research spans three main areas: assessment of language proficiency and learning , language learning, teaching, and competence , and language in communit...

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...

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 Turku is seeking a postdoctoral researcher to study how human mobility and infectious disease spread have been shaped by ecological and social factors. The position is based in the Department of Biology and is part of the Human Diversity Centre of Excellence, an interdisciplinary research consortium funded by the Research Council of Finland. The project investigates past human contacts, including migration rates between local communities, and how these movements influenced the ...

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...

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...