PhD Opportunities in Journalism

The University of Edinburgh is inviting applications for its Mathematics Education PhD programme, based in the School of Mathematics and the College of Science and Engineering. The programme explores mathematics education research within a vibrant community of educators and provides opportunities to engage with related groups, including the Edinburgh Physics Education Group and the interdisciplinary Centre for Research in Digital Education. Students can study full time over four years or part ti...

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam is offering a full-time PhD position in Early Modern Religious Debates and the Public Sphere within the NWO-funded project In Search of the Truth, in Search of Adherents . The doctoral research examines public religious debates in the sixteenth and seventeenth-century Low Countries, including debates among Calvinists, Mennonites, Catholics, and Lutherans. The project investigates how debates shaped religious identities, strategies of argument, audience participation,...

The GATOR Lab at the University of Florida is potentially recruiting a funded PhD student for Fall 2027. This four-year research assistantship is intended for a motivated researcher who wants to develop as a geospatial scientist and contribute to the growth of the lab. The main research directions include GeoAI and scalable analytics, including next-generation GeoAI, large language models for geospatial reasoning, governed agentic AI, and cloud-native geocomputation. The lab is also interested i...

The Right Livelihood College Campus at the Center for Development Research (ZEF), University of Bonn, Germany, is offering fully funded workshop scholarships for PhD students interested in the sustainable use and conservation of natural resources. The workshop will take place in Bonn on 1–2 December 2026 and is supported by DAAD. Eligible applicants are PhD students from Africa, Asia, or Latin America who are studying at a German university. Applicants may come from natural, social, economic, de...

Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH is offering a three-year PhD position in economics at the Institute of Climate and Energy Systems – Jülich Systems Analysis (ICE-2), based in Jülich, Germany. The doctoral project investigates public opinion and sentiment on energy policy through systematic data collection and natural language processing (NLP). The research will identify and characterize stakeholder groups relevant to energy policy, draw on economic theory, and translate findings into specifications...

The University of Edinburgh invites applications for its Linguistics and English Language PhD , offered full-time over three years or part-time over six years, starting in September 2027. The programme is based in the School of Philosophy, Psychology and Language Sciences within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. Research opportunities span applied linguistics, developmental linguistics and language acquisition, discourse and conversation analysis, historical English linguistic...

Cranfield University is offering a full-time, three-year PhD studentship on Distributed Machine Learning over Mobile Networks , investigating how artificial intelligence can deliver seamless services to mobile users through AI-enabled Radio Access Networks (AI-on-RAN). The research will explore distributed and mobile inference of large language models, including real-time adaptation of token usage, memory, and network bandwidth. The project addresses latency, data sovereignty, mobile demand, com...

Fully Funded PhD in Human-Centered Design, Environmental Psychology and Immersive Technology The Department of Interior Design at the University of Florida in the United States is recruiting for a fully funded PhD position beginning in Fall 2027. The research opportunity focuses on human-centered design, environmental psychology, and immersive technologies such as virtual and extended reality. Applicants should have a master's degree in interior design, architecture, environmental psychology, hu...

[Annual stipend of £36,263.60. HKPFS awards provide HK$344,400 per year plus HK$14,400 conference and research-related travel allowance per year for up to three years.] The Department of Health and Physical Education at The Education University of Hong Kong (EdUHK) is inviting high-achieving international candidates to apply for PhD opportunities in a multidisciplinary research environment focused on physical education, sports science, nutrition, and health. The department’s research clusters co...