PhD Opportunities in History

The University of St.Gallen’s Chair of Legal History, Sociology of Law, and Criminal Law, led by Prof. Dr. Lukas Gschwend , is seeking a research assistant / PhD student to contribute to its research and teaching activities. The role combines academic research with teaching support. The successful candidate will help prepare and deliver lectures, organize seminars and scientific events, and support the design, administration and supervision of examinations and other teaching formats. The positio...

The Midlands Graduate School (MGS) brings together eight universities across the Midlands to provide doctoral training in the social sciences and interdisciplinary research areas. Through its Doctoral Training Partnership at the University of Nottingham , the programme offers ESRC-funded PhD studentships for applicants interested in advanced social science research. The doctoral training environment combines research study with structured training and broader support opportunities. Applicants ca...

MINARET is recruiting 15 fully funded PhD researchers through an MSCA Doctoral Network coordinated by Lund University and involving 11 leading universities across Europe. The network examines the sociology of post-imperial Islamic legal cultures and the relationships between law, religion, governance, constitutionalism, democratisation and social change. Projects address Muslim-majority societies shaped by imperial legacies and contemporary political transformations, with a geographic focus span...

SVRI Early Career Research Fellowships 2026/2027 support doctoral and postdoctoral research on the intersection of violence against women (VAW) and violence against children (VAC). The fellowship is offered by the Sexual Violence Research Initiative (SVRI) , with support from the Kering Foundation. It is designed for early-career researchers developing research focused on sexual violence and related forms of violence affecting women and children, particularly in low- and middle-income country co...

The Department of Peace and Conflict Research at Uppsala University is recruiting two PhD candidates for the Democratic Institutions and Violence Network in Europe (DIViNE) , a European doctoral network funded through the EU HORIZON MSCA action. The department is an internationally oriented research environment with long-standing expertise in peace research and peace and conflict studies. The two doctoral projects are embedded in a wider network of five universities and bring together complement...

INFLUENCE is an MSCA Doctoral Network, “Legacies, Interdependencies, Power: Russian Influences in the European Periphery,” bringing together five universities across Europe to study Russian influence in Europe through interdisciplinary research, advanced methods training, and engagement with policy stakeholders. The University of Helsinki project, “Teaching Authoritarianism: Russia’s Role in Promoting Illiberal Governance,” examines how illiberal governance models inspired by Russian practices s...

Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology at the University of Oulu’s Department of Cultural Anthropology, within the Faculty of Humanities, in the EU-funded MITIME doctoral network. The project sits at the intersection of migration, temporality, labour, and urban change in post-industrial Europe. The doctoral researcher will develop an original PhD project in Cultural Anthropology under the provisional theme “Imagining and Representing Urban Pasts and Futures.” The research examines how industrialisa...

The University of Helsinki is offering a 36-month doctoral researcher position in archaeobotany within the Research Council of Finland-funded NeoPlant project, which studies plant use, cultivation and the cultural roles of plants in Neolithic Finland (ca. 3000–1500 BCE). The project examines a major transition in human history: the shift from hunting and gathering towards food production and farming, while also recognising the continued importance of hunting, fishing and gathering in Neolithic F...

PhD project in plant demography at Uppsala University within the Department of Ecology and Genetics and the Evolutionary Biology Centre. The position sits in an international research environment focused on ecological and evolutionary processes across levels of biological organization, with access to national and local research infrastructure, including supercomputing resources, molecular technologies, sequencing platforms, controlled environmental chambers, greenhouses, and a molecular lab. The...