PhD Opportunities in Art

Erasmus University Rotterdam is offering a PhD project in operations management focused on optimizing emergency services that rely on decentralized and unpredictable capacity sources. The research examines two emerging forms of emergency-response capacity: community first responders who volunteer through smartphone applications, and independent commercial ambulance providers coordinated through emergency platforms. Because these responders are not scheduled, positioned or directly controlled by ...

The PhD project is based in the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University and focuses on how art-science-action integration and challenge-based learning can strengthen transformative sustainability education. The position sits at the intersection of sustainability education, transformative learning, arts-based interventions and higher education research. The doctoral researcher will investigate how universities can prepare students to contribute meaningfully to comple...

Cogito Foundation Postdoc Scholarships support project-oriented postdoctoral research for scientists who have recently completed a PhD and want to carry out their studies at a foreign institution. The scheme is centred on cross-disciplinary collaboration between the Sciences and the Humanities . The foundation emphasizes that both sides of the collaboration should gain scientifically from the project, and that the work should go beyond simply applying a method from one field to another. The awar...

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 ...

This PhD grant is offered within the 4-OCEANS project, Human History of Marine Life: Extraction, Knowledge, Drivers and Consumption of Marine Resources, c. 100 BCE to c. 1860 CE . The project investigates how knowledge about marine living resources was produced, circulated, and used in the modern era, with a particular focus on the Atlantic world. The successful candidate will contribute to research in early-modern history , especially at the intersection of environmental history , marine histor...

[ESRC-funded studentship covering tuition fees and an annual tax-free living stipend at UKRI minimum rates, currently £21,805 for 2026/27.] This ESRC-funded PhD studentship sits within Swansea University’s Media, Communications and Public Relations community, in the Journalism, Democracy and Digital Media pathway. The advert highlights a lively research environment with expertise spanning print and broadcast journalism, digital news media, fact checking, disordered information, hate speech, raci...

This PhD opening is part of the ERC-Synergy project MOSAIC at the Department of Modern and Contemporary History , Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. The project is framed within research on medieval and early modern Ottoman studies and related historical fields, with a focus on cultural, intellectual, and institutional history . The successful candidate will join a research environment centered on historical work with primary sources in Persian and Ottoman Turkish . The advert indicates that exp...

PhD in Optimization of Emergency Services under Decentralized Capacity Sources at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, in the Netherlands. The project focuses on optimizing emergency response systems through mathematical modelling, machine learning, simulation, optimization and game theory. The research addresses how emergency services can be designed and coordinated when capacity sources are decentralized, combining operations research with computational and analytical ...

This doctoral position is based in the Division of Industrial Design at the Department of Design Sciences , LTH, Lund University . The environment is described as interdisciplinary, bringing together design, technology and people, and the successful candidate will work alongside doctoral students, senior researchers and teaching staff across Industrial Design and the wider department. The project sits within a research area that examines how design responds to technological, environmental and so...