PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Literature 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 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...

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...

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...

Turku Institute for Advanced Studies (TIAS) at the University of Turku is inviting applications for four Postdoctoral Fellow / Postdoctoral Researcher positions starting 1 September 2027 for a three-year period. This is an interdisciplinary postdoctoral opportunity open to projects in any discipline within TIAS’s five constituent faculties: Economics, Education, Humanities, Law, and Social Sciences . The call emphasizes academic excellence , internationally strong research, and active participat...