PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Journalism in Germany

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München (LMU) is seeking a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Media and Communication, Faculty of Social Sciences, in Munich. The position is part of the four-year DIGIREL research project, “Adolescents’ Social Relationships and Well-Being in the Digital Age: Interstitial Communication Patterns and their Outcomes,” supervised scientifically by Prof. Dr. Ruth Wendt . DIGIREL investigates how adolescents’ interstitial communication patterns—staccato-like se...

Heidelberg University is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher for a three-year DFG-funded project titled “Narratives for Community Resilience and Solidarity: Hybrid Risk Methods for Inclusive and Sustainable Adaptation.” The project focuses on how narratives can support community resilience and solidarity while developing hybrid approaches to understanding and addressing risk. Its research agenda connects inclusive adaptation with sustainability, bringing together social, environmental, and meth...

The Understanding Written Artefacts doctoral programme is offered at the Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures (CSMC), University of Hamburg, in cooperation with DESY and Hamburg University of Technology (TU Hamburg). It examines handwriting and other written artefacts as a key cultural technique from a global perspective, bringing together expertise from the humanities, the natural sciences, and computer science. Doctoral researchers work in an interdisciplinary environment that connects ...

The Graduate School of Integrated Climate and Earth System Sciences (SICSS) at the University of Hamburg offers a structured PhD programme focused on basic research into climate system interactions and climate effects. The programme is designed to support doctoral researchers in building strong disciplinary expertise while also developing interdisciplinary thinking and international networking. Doctoral researchers follow a curriculum with compulsory introduction courses in climate system scienc...

The PhD Programme in Computer Science (PCS) at the University of Göttingen is a research-focused doctoral programme within the graduate school of the Faculties of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, Georg-August University School of Science (GAUSS). The programme is designed around independent doctoral research leading to the degree of Doctor rerum naturalium (Dr rer nat) or an equivalent PhD degree. Students work on a current research topic in computer science within one of the university’s resea...

Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Research Data Management and Community Engagement for the PUNCH4NFDI 2.0 project at the Erlangen Center for Astroparticle Physics and its Chair for Astroparticle Physics. PUNCH4NFDI 2.0 is developing a comprehensive Science Data Platform to make research data management a user-driven service for particle, astro-, astroparticle, hadron, and nuclear physics communities. The postdoctoral researcher will serve ...

The Department of Chinese Studies in the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies at the University of Tübingen is seeking a pre-doctoral researcher to undertake a PhD research project in Chinese Studies/Sinology. The position offers an opportunity to develop a research profile focused on China or Greater China, particularly across historical and interdisciplinary approaches. The doctoral research may engage with areas such as social and cultural history, environmental history, the history of med...

The University of Rostock is seeking a research associate for the Chair of Optoelectronics and Photonic Systems within the Institute of General Electrical Engineering and the Faculty of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering. The position focuses on information technology, visualization, optical measurement technology, and the processing of multidimensional imaging data. The research will involve designing, implementing, and applying computer-algebraic methods, developing visualization conc...

PhD Research Associate in Corporate Social Responsibility Control, Reporting and Governance The University of Regensburg’s Chair of Corporate Social Responsibility is seeking a research associate to pursue a doctorate within a German Research Foundation (DFG)-funded project on the informational value of carbon-related narrative disclosures. The project, titled “The Informational Value of Carbon-Related Narrative Disclosures: A Machine Learning Approach to Predicting Firms' Future Carbon Performa...