PhD opportunities in anthropology

The Department of Ancient Civilizations at the University of Basel is offering a fully funded PhD position in Ancient History as part of the SNSF-funded project The Roman Villa as Ecosystem: Climate, Production, and Society in the Sabina Tiberina , led by Prof. Dr. Sabine Huebner. This doctoral project focuses on the people who lived and worked in Roman villa landscapes in Italy, especially the men, women, and children whose labour sustained the rural economy. The research explores life historie...

University of Antwerp and Ghent University are offering a full-time doctoral scholarship within the joint PhD project Designing the service of Integrated Transitional Healthcare for Adolescents and young-adults with Rare Diseases (DITHARD) . The position is based in Belgium and is formally hosted by the University of Antwerp, with Ghent University as partner institution. The PhD candidate will contribute to the mixed-methods process evaluation and local implementation of an integrated transition...

IIITDM Kurnool is inviting applications for a PhD Research Scholar opportunity in English for the upcoming admission session. The research focus is especially suitable for students interested in Environmental Humanities , Postcolonial Literature , Blue Humanities , Dalit and Tribal literature , Indigenous Literature , and South Asian Literature . The post is being shared by Ghulam Rabani , Assistant Professor at IIITDM Kurnool, who appears to be the academic contact for this opportunity. Both Fu...

PhD opportunity in Egyptian Archaeology on the topic of meat in Greco-Roman Egypt . The post is shared by Mohamed Elgamal , Professor in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alexandria . The research appears to be hosted through the Archaeology Research Unit and is aimed at recruiting a PhD researcher. This project will likely suit candidates with interests in archaeology , history , and the study of ancient foodways/material culture, especially research on Greco-Roman Egypt. The announcemen...

Roskilde University is advertising a fully funded three-year PhD position in the new SIRPA project: Social Imaginaries and Realisations of Place-based Communities in Ageing Societies . The position is based in the Department of Social Sciences and Business and starts from 1 February 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter. The PhD will examine major questions about welfare state transformation , governance , inequality , boundary-making , and the role of community-based support in ageing societie...

Roskilde University’s VITALPLACEs project is advertising two PhD/postdoc positions : one focused on healing architecture and one on green care farming . The project seeks researchers who want to join an active team where collaboration, mutual support, and generosity are core values. The post highlights interest in ethnographic fieldwork , sensory ethnography , mental health , healing architecture , and green care farming . Eligibility highlights: applicants should have ethnographic fieldwork exp...

PhD opportunity at Lund University in Sustainability Science , based at Lund University Centre for Sustainability Studies (LUCSUS) . The project is titled (Dis)orderly transitions: The financial sector's role in shaping just energy transitions and examines how financial actors try to shape an “orderly” transition away from fossil fuels through financial instruments and practices. The research sits at the intersection of critical social science , political economy , economic sociology , energy tr...

PhD opportunity at the University of Amsterdam on labour and housing precarity in Amsterdam, within the Urban Impact Lab of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) . The project examines how labour migrants in Amsterdam experience, navigate, and resist precarious living conditions at the intersection of labour and housing. The position is supervised/announced by Emil van Eck (Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam) together with Fenne Pinkster . The vacancy sits in the ...

Malmö University is recruiting one fully funded PhD student in International Migration and Ethnic Relations (IMER) at the Department of Global Political Studies , within the research environment of the Malmö Institute for Migration Studies (MIM) . The project focuses on survey studies of diversity and inclusion in Sweden, using a unique Diversity and Inclusion Survey and related register/survey data. The research theme is closely connected to migration studies , superdiversity , social inequalit...