PhD Opportunities in Anthropology

Ashwini Sansare is recruiting a PhD student to join the BRAIN Lab—Biomechanics, Rehabilitation and Integrative Neuroscience—at Texas A&M University starting in Fall 2027. The lab investigates how the brain controls balance and walking, with particular attention to aging and neurological conditions. Its research combines biomechanics and neuroscience to examine sensory integration and cognitive-motor interactions, with the broader goal of informing rehabilitation. PhD students will gain hands-on ...

The Centre d’Estudis Demogràfics is seeking a doctoral researcher to join the HOMEINEQ project, Housing and Mobility in the Reproduction of Inequality in Spain and Europe , and undertake a PhD in the Demography Doctoral Programme at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The project examines how residential trajectories and access to housing develop across the life course and contribute to the reproduction of social inequalities. It explores how these relationships are shaped by demographic change, ...

Swansea University’s Department of Politics, International Relations and Area Studies is inviting prospective doctoral researchers to apply for a fully funded scholarship within the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS). The opportunity supports PhD research in Politics, International Relations and Area Studies , offering candidates the chance to join the department and develop an independent research project aligned with its areas of expertise. The department provides a res...

Aalborg University’s Department of Computer Science invites applications for two fully funded PhD positions in human-centred artificial intelligence . The research focuses on protecting cognitive autonomy in human–AI interaction through behaviour-aware systems and digital interventions. The PhD projects offer two complementary directions. One centres on technical interaction analysis, while the other focuses on user-centred intervention. Together, they investigate how human behaviour and AI-medi...

This doctoral position is based at KTH Royal Institute of Technology within the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED). The project sits in the third-cycle subject Sustainability studies and focuses on wetland restoration as a nature-based solution for sustainable water supply under changing climate conditions. The doctoral student will work on developing policy- and valuation-oriented frameworks that connect wetland indicators with societal benefits ...

The Wellington Doctoral Scholarship 2027 at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington supports international students undertaking full-time PhD research in New Zealand. The scholarship is open across a broad range of academic disciplines, including science, genetics, biotechnology, health, engineering, education, business, humanities, social sciences, law and technology. This multidisciplinary scope allows doctoral candidates to develop research projects aligned with the university's ava...

This CNRS InSHS opportunity offers a 3-year doctoral employment contract in the humanities and social sciences at CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales in France. It is a paid doctoral position rather than a scholarship, and it includes a compulsory research placement abroad at one of the CNRS international units. The scheme is designed for doctoral projects that combine research in France with an international mobility component. The placement abroad is intended to support the project through colla...

Observatoire B2V des Mémoires offers a doctoral grant to support one early-career researcher each year on a PhD project focused broadly on memory. The award is designed to fund doctoral research carried out in a research laboratory in France, with the money paid to the host laboratory rather than directly to the student. The scholarship supports interdisciplinary doctoral work on memory in its many forms, including individual, collective, animal and digital memory. The advert explicitly encourag...

PhD Researcher: Environmental Impacts of Spatial Demographic Change at Leiden University’s Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) and Faculty of Science is a research project at the intersection of demographic change, spatial analysis, and environmental sustainability. The project examines how spatial population distribution, population ageing, smaller households, and urban form combine to shape future resource demand and greenhouse gas emissions. The research is designed to identify trade-of...