PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Archaeology in France

ENS-PSL / Université PSL in Paris is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for the Re-contract Research Program (Axis 1) , focused on trust, social contract renewal, and intergenerational social protection. The project examines how citizens view social protection politically and normatively: what should be protected, who should organize it (state, non-profit sector, or insurance sector), how resources should be pooled and redistributed, and how trust in institutions and shared political projects ...

Aix-Marseille University’s Mesopolhis Lab is recruiting a postdoc for the project “Mediterranean Dreaming: Tourism Massification and Migration in Maritime Cities.” The project investigates how tourism massification and migration are reshaping Mediterranean cities, how municipalities regulate these dynamics through urban policies and planning, and how residents experience the social and economic consequences. It also examines the imaginaries of the Mediterranean city emerging from official polici...

Applications are open for the 2026 John G. Bene Fellowship from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) . This student award supports master’s and doctoral students conducting field research in the Global South for their thesis work. It is designed for students whose academic background combines an interest in forests with social sciences , and whose research examines the relationship between forest resources and the social, economic, cultural, and environmental welfare of people in...

Postdoctoral Position in Social and Experimental Psychology at the University of Strasbourg , Faculty of Psychology, within the Laboratoire de Psychologie des Cognitions (LPC-EA 4440) . This 12-month full-time postdoctoral appointment is part of the IdEx 2026 Research Support Fund . The project, “Ageism and Virtual Reality: Study of Intergenerational Dynamics,” explores ageism, intergroup relations, and spontaneous avoidance behavior in a controlled virtual environment. The research focuses on h...

Postdoctoral position in geomicrobiology at Université Côte d’Azur / CEREEP ECOTRON Île-de-France This postdoctoral project explores a fundamental question about the early Earth: did life shape the surface of the planet, and how did microorganisms influence rock weathering under Archean-like conditions? The work is embedded in the Pandora project and builds on an experimental set-up already designed and constructed by a PhD student. The platform reproduces rock weathering in an anoxic environmen...

École Normale Supérieure (ENS), through its Department of Cognitive Studies and the Interventional Neuropsychology Laboratory (NPI), is offering a postdoctoral researcher position focused on language and communication research with neurological adult patients. The position is embedded in Charlotte Jacquemot’s team, a group that combines clinical research aimed at improving care for patients with cognitive disorders and fundamental research in cognition . The post is connected to the NPI laborato...

Post-doctoral position in social sciences at Cermes3 / Inserm in Villejuif, France, focused on research into treatment practices for recurrent pulmonary embolisms and venous thromboses. The post is part of a collaborative research effort combining hospital-based observation, interviews, qualitative analysis, and interdisciplinary discussion between medicine and the social sciences. The successful candidate will observe consultations and professional meetings in a hospital setting, conduct interv...

Fully funded PhD opportunity in France/Spain within the European TERRA-MED programme . The Université de Montpellier (France) and the University of the Balearic Islands (Spain) are offering a three-year PhD project on plant–mosquito–microbe interactions and their implications for pathogen transmission . The research combines field-based ecological investigations with controlled laboratory experiments , making it a strong fit for candidates interested in biology , ecology , medical entomology , v...

CNRS is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for the ERC-funded MOVING project, led by Prof. Véronique BENEÏ at the Laboratoire d'Anthropologie Politique (LAP), based at EHESS, Paris . The project studies the embodied traces and memories of African-originated slavery in diasporic contexts, with a focus on the Colombian Caribbean and the broader themes of anthropology , ethnology , ethnographic methods , arts-based research , and interdisciplinary social science. The successful candidate will con...