PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Political Science in Finland

The Natural Resources Institute Finland (Luke) is offering a fixed-term postdoctoral Research Scientist position in agentic AI for agriculture . The project sits at the intersection of artificial intelligence and food production, asking how AI systems can support decision-making when data collection from fields, greenhouses, and experiments is expensive and slow. The postdoc will develop methods for offline learning from historical datasets and explore ways to transfer learned models into online...

The Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki is seeking a doctoral researcher for the DELUDE project, a practice-oriented research initiative focused on participation, exploratory approaches, and democracy in early childhood education. The position is based in the Department of Pedagogy and is linked to doctoral research carried out within the project. In DELUDE, the doctoral researcher will study how children’s participation can be strengthened through different exploratory...

The Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki is recruiting a doctoral researcher for the DELUDE project, which focuses on participation, exploratory approaches, and democracy in early childhood education. The position is based in the Department of Education and is linked to practice-oriented research carried out with staff and child groups in daycare settings. The doctoral student will work on a dissertation within the project’s themes and make use of DELUDE’s collected rese...

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...

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...

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...