PhD Opportunities in Communication Studies

KU Leuven is inviting applications for a PhD project in semantic-aware joint communication and sensing in distributed non-terrestrial networks. The researcher will join WaveCoRE in the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) in Leuven, Belgium. The project investigates how aerial sensing networks can exchange meaningful information while reducing energy and bandwidth consumption. The work will explore semantic communication for efficient coordination among aerial nodes, PHY–MAC cross-layer d...

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is advertising a doctoral candidate/scientific researcher position in the DFG Research Unit “Beyond Crazy” (FOR 5901). The project focuses on conspiracy beliefs and is situated within the psychology of communication and media use. The position is associated with Professor Tobias Rothmund and offers doctoral research within a German Research Foundation-funded research unit. The work will examine conspiracy beliefs in the context of communication and media use, c...

This PhD scholarship is based at Monash University’s Clayton campus in Melbourne and sits within a Monash AI Institute collaboration between the Arts and IT faculties. The project investigates communication and navigation for blind and low vision people, with a particular focus on how people interact with digital navigational technologies and use multimodal information to build a navigational frame of reference. The student will carry out detailed linguistic and multimodal research on real-world...

This PhD project is centred on improving communication about dementia prevention and dementia diagnosis. Working across two major consortia, the doctoral researcher will explore the needs of patients, citizens, relatives and healthcare professionals, and then co-develop practical communication tools and training for use in clinical and care settings. The project spans two complementary research lines. In the prevention project, BIRD-NL, the PhD candidate will study which messages encourage behav...

This PhD project at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam examines how online and offline social relationships among young people are intertwined, and how digital experiences may support positive relationships, mental wellbeing, and flourishing. The position is embedded in the Stronger2gether consortium, a transdisciplinary research community that links science and practice. The doctoral researcher will work with students in vmbo, mbo, and special education , together with teachers and other professional...

The Digital Platform Ecosystems (DPE) Research Training Group 2720 at the University of Passau offers a doctoral research environment focused on one of the central phenomena of the digital economy: platform ecosystems and their role in data- and knowledge-intensive business models. The programme is built around an integrated, systemic perspective on digital platform-based value creation and its implications for data exchange, organisation, and socio-economic development. It brings together sever...

This PhD project at UMC Utrecht focuses on person-centred care and technological innovation in brain diagnostics, with a specific emphasis on bringing MRI closer to the patient and into primary care. The project is part of the consortium initiative Brain Matters and the broader Reimagine Imaging programme, which aims to redesign how people are referred, guided, and supported through the imaging pathway. The PhD student will work on the development of a largely automated MRI set-up in which patie...

Uppsala University is recruiting one fully funded PhD student in Media and Communication Studies at the Department of Informatics and Media in Uppsala, Sweden. The four-year doctoral position is part of the Swedish Research Council-funded project AI Confidential: Emerging Forms of AI Chatbot Use for Emotional Support and Personal Well-being Among Young Swedes . The project investigates how young people aged 15–18 interpret and relate to AI chatbots as conversational partners in personal areas of...

PhD Candidate in Biological-inspired AI-approaches for mitigating the spread of misinformation at Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Norway. This PhD project focuses on developing biological-inspired artificial intelligence approaches to help mitigate the spread of misinformation. The topic sits at the intersection of AI, machine learning, information diffusion, and the analysis of online/social systems, with strong relevance to computational social science and communicatio...