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

At the Romanisches Seminar of the University of Freiburg, two part-time research assistant positions are available in French and Italian literary and cultural studies. The roles are anchored in a doctoral research environment and are linked to the professorship of Prof. Dr. Manuel Mühlbacher. The successful candidates will work toward a dissertation in French and/or Italian literary and cultural studies while also contributing to the academic life of the chair and seminar. Alongside their own do...

The Communication and Collective Movement Group at the Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior is seeking a PhD student to join an interdisciplinary project on communication and coordination in animal groups . The research sits at the intersection of animal movement, vocal communication, collective behavior, and quantitative ecology, with a strong focus on understanding how individual decisions scale up to group-level patterns in wild social animals. The student will work with rich existing data...

The Leibniz ScienceCampus Europe and America in the Modern World at the University of Regensburg offers a pre-doctoral research position for an early-career researcher preparing a doctoral project in the humanities, cultural studies, social sciences, business and economics, or law. The ScienceCampus is a joint platform of the University of Regensburg and the Leibniz Institute for East and Southeast European Studies. It provides an interdisciplinary research environment focused on Europe, North a...

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is recruiting two doctoral researchers for the Cluster of Excellence “Imaginamics: Practices and Dynamics of Social Imagining.” The positions are embedded in the Junior Research Group “Imaginaries of Democracy: Histories, Practices, and Global Perspectives,” led by Sara Gebh. The group investigates how alternative imaginaries of democracy emerge, change, and become politically effective. Its interdisciplinary approach asks where and how democracy is imagined di...

The International PhD Programme (IPP) in Literary and Cultural Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen is a structured, research-oriented doctoral programme designed for students working in literary and cultural studies. It brings together four main research areas: literary and cultural theory, genre theory, literary and cultural historiography, and comparative and interdisciplinary issues. The programme is embedded in a broad humanities environment at Justus Liebig University Giessen, with ...

The International Graduate School GFL at the University of Education Freiburg offers a structured doctoral programme in German as a Foreign Language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache). The programme is run in cooperation with the German Jordanian University in Amman and is designed for qualified candidates from the MENA region and beyond who want to pursue research leading to a PhD. The doctoral study is centered on research and teaching in foreign language education, with a particular focus on how Germ...

The International Graduate Centre for the Study of Culture (GCSC) at Justus Liebig University Giessen offers a doctoral programme for applicants working on a dissertation project in an interdisciplinary research environment. The programme is built around a research colloquium that allows doctoral researchers to present their work each semester and discuss it with teachers, fellow postgraduates, doctoral and postdoctoral researchers, and professors. As part of the GCSC, participants work within a...

The Graduate School Practices of Literature (GSPoL) at the University of Münster offers a doctoral programme in English Studies with a strong interdisciplinary profile. It brings together literary and cultural studies with insights from the philosophy of science and broader debates in the humanities and social sciences, encouraging students to rethink the cultural and social relevance of literature. The programme is organised around three interconnected research areas: Literature, Culture, and S...

Graduate School Language & Literature Munich at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is a structured doctoral environment for research in linguistics, literature, language education, and cultural studies/cultural history. The programme is organized into four classes: Language , Literature , Language Education , and Culture and History . Each class supports doctoral projects in its own area while contributing to a wider interdisciplinary setting within the Faculty of Languages and Literatures. ...