PhD, Master’s & Postdoc Opportunities in Art in New Zealand

The postdoctoral position is based in the Division of History at Lund University , within a large and active department that also includes Human Rights Studies and the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies. The Division brings together professors, senior lecturers, researchers, doctoral candidates, and administrative staff, and offers a research-rich environment with teaching across undergraduate to doctoral levels. The postdoc will be affiliated with one or more of the Division’s six res...

Henri Frankfort Fellowship at the Warburg Institute, part of the University of London, supports a two-month research visit in London for postdoctoral scholars working on the Ancient Near East. The fellowship is designed for research in the history of ideas, cultural history, and art history, and is connected to the Warburg Institute’s broader strengths in the history of ideas, visual history, and cultural history. The award honours Henri Frankfort, who directed the Institute from 1949 to 1954, a...

The William S. Phillips Fund award supports postgraduate study in art and design at the University of Dundee’s College of Art and Design, part of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design. This scholarship is intended for students entering a one-year Master’s programme and covers the full duration of that year. The award is rooted in a foundation established from the estate of William Sangster Phillips, a Dundee-born benefactor, and is designed to help talented home students pursue advance...

Pigott Scholarships at the University of Cambridge support doctoral study in the humanities and social sciences. This award is intended for students pursuing a research-based PhD at Cambridge, with two scholarships available each year. The scholarship sits within the University of Cambridge’s named scholarship offering and was established in 2008 following a £2 million donation from the Pigott family. It is aimed at high-achieving students whose research and academic interests fall within the ar...

This PhD scholarship is hosted by the Conservatorio di Musica N. Piccinni in Bari and is centred on the interdisciplinary topic of Computational Electroacoustic Music Composition, Generative Algorithmic Models and Computational Complexity . The programme brings together music theory, composition theory, electroacoustic composition, electronic music, computer science, and mathematics, offering advanced training that links artistic creation with computational and analytical methods. Candidates wil...

The Department of Economics at the University of Graz is inviting applications for a four-year University Assistant position without a PhD, designed for an economics graduate intending to pursue doctoral research. The successful candidate will develop research and write a dissertation in environmental economics , with related work in microeconomics and game theory . The role offers the opportunity to work in a research environment alongside leading scholars, including Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Fin...

Sheffield Hallam University’s Creative Industries Institute is offering three Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards for PhD study beginning in October 2027. The opportunity supports doctoral research across the arts and humanities, with the Creative Industries Institute providing the academic setting. Potential research directions may connect with creative industries, culture, media, history, literature, film, theatre, music and related humanities disciplines, sub...

Meta XR 3D GenAI is seeking PhD research interns to contribute to research at the intersection of large language models, 3D generative AI, and agentic reinforcement learning . The internship is connected to Meta’s XR-focused 3D GenAI work and is intended for researchers interested in advancing intelligent systems for three-dimensional content and interactive experiences. Potential research directions include combining language-based reasoning with 3D generation, developing agentic methods that c...

The University of California, Berkeley offers an interdisciplinary PhD program in Buddhist Studies through the Buddhist Studies Graduate Group. The program examines Buddhism in its many forms within Asian historical and cultural contexts. Students engage closely with Buddhist texts in their original languages while developing an understanding of the historical, social, and cultural environments in which the Buddhist textual tradition developed. The program also encourages students to broaden the...