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

The doctoral project is part of the interdisciplinary AcrioFarm research on overdoses, within the CNRS PRIME team directed by Marie Jauffret-Roustide . It focuses on the experience of opioids among users, with particular attention to access to care and harm reduction in a context marked by the spread of synthetic opioids and rising overdose rates. The thesis will examine users’ preferences for natural and synthetic opioids, their experiences of treatment and harm reduction services, and the prev...

This postdoctoral position is part of the national France 2030 ecological transition strategy and the PEPR programme on sustainable cities and innovative buildings. The post is based at the Université de Bordeaux and focuses on the operational centre CO MESAP (“Méthodes et stratégies de l’action publique”), which works on the evaluation of urban policies . The wider project is organised around a central project and three operational centres: one dedicated to data management and visualisation at ...

This postdoctoral position is based at Université de Toulouse Jean Jaurès within the LEREPS research environment and is attached to a collaborative project on the determinants of leishmaniasis in the Mediterranean basin. The researcher will help build the project’s scientific and methodological framework for understanding how the disease evolves through a combination of environmental, socio-economic, territorial, institutional, and behavioral factors. The role places strong emphasis on social sc...

The Dempsey Lab in the Department of Geography at the University of British Columbia's Vancouver campus is seeking a full-time Research Associate for an interdisciplinary project on the political and economic conditions shaping the future of forest stewardship in British Columbia and Canada. The project examines a transition from conventional industrial forestry toward regenerative forest stewardship. This approach places greater emphasis on Indigenous self-determination, long-term ecological he...

This post-doctoral research position at the École nationale vétérinaire de Toulouse (ENVT) is part of the PEPR “Elevages durables” project and focuses on preventive approaches in livestock farming, especially vaccination and biosafety . The recruited researcher will work at the interface of epidemiology and social sciences to design and implement interdisciplinary studies in two livestock sectors: poultry and ruminants . The work includes building study protocols, conducting questionnaire-based ...

This postdoctoral position at CNRS is part of the ELISco programme and focuses on the study of educational inequalities through quantitative research. The recruited researcher will work with administrative data and survey data produced notably by the Direction de l’évaluation, de la prospective et de la performance (DEPP) of the French Ministry of Education. The project combines two main strands of work: the exploitation of existing datasets and the construction of new data, including the prepar...

This postdoctoral position is based at Linköping University within Tema Miljöförändring , part of the Department of Thematic Studies. The role is embedded in the Formas-funded research project Democratic Innovations for Climate Transformation (2027–2029) , which examines how climate citizens’ assemblies and related democratic processes may contribute to broader system change. The project brings together scholars from Linköping University and the Stockholm Resilience Centre to carry out a systema...

This postdoctoral position at Université de Bordeaux sits within the macroeconomic and comparative strand of the “aging” axis of the Grands Défis en Sciences de la Durabilité programme. The project examines how national socioeconomic systems adapt to population ageing, combining cross-country analysis with a policy-focused perspective. The successful researcher will contribute to two closely related strands of work. First, the project includes a policy watch and mapping exercise on ageing-adapta...

The Galway Doctoral Research Scholarship at the University of Galway supports full-time doctoral research within the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies . It is designed for students whose projects sit in the arts, social sciences, or Celtic studies, with examples in the advert including history, geography, archaeology, English, music, philosophy, psychology, sociology, classics, and modern languages such as French, German, Italian, or Spanish. The scholarship is intended for a ...