PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Sociology 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 Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting a doctoral researcher for the STN-funded Planetary Mind project. The project examines environmental agency — the ability to make sustainable everyday choices — and its relationship to mental health across different age groups. The doctoral researcher will work in a multidisciplinary consortium and develop a dissertation linked to the project’s research themes. The role combines original research with publication, collabora...

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 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 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...