PhD Opportunities in Linguistics

The University of Seville is advertising a four-year PhD position in Experimental and Computational Philosophy . The doctoral project sits at the intersection of philosophical investigation and computational approaches, offering an opportunity to develop research on how experimental methods and computational perspectives can be used to address philosophical questions. The position is associated with the University of Seville in Spain. The post is shared by A. Benítez-Burraco, Full Professor of L...

Swansea University is offering a fully funded PhD studentship in Linguistics and Bilingualism through the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences. The opportunity is based in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences and welcomes doctoral research proposals connected to the expertise of staff in Applied Linguistics and Welsh. Potential projects may investigate second language acquisition , bilingualism and multilingualism, or the structure, meaning and use of language. Relevant ap...

Queen’s University Belfast is offering a PhD project in Media Studies examining screen industries, misleading video, AI-generated content and public trust during episodes of public disorder in Northern Ireland. Focusing on anti-immigrant disorder in Belfast and Ballymena, the research will investigate how video is edited, shared and interpreted by different audiences. It will explore what makes footage credible, how newsrooms respond to disputed clips, and what evidence is needed to determine wh...

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...

North Carolina State University’s Center for Geospatial Analytics is recruiting doctoral students for three fully funded GeoAI fellowships beginning in Fall 2027. The opportunities are part of the PhD in Geospatial Analytics program and bring together geospatial science, artificial intelligence, environmental modeling, and decision support. The first fellowship focuses on autonomous AI for GIS and natural-hazard simulation . The student will develop an agentic GeoAI system able to plan and execu...

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...

ETH Wohnforum – ETH CASE at the Department of Architecture, ETH Zurich, invites applications for two doctoral researcher positions in the SNSF-funded project “From Homes to Habitats – Swiss Housing Cooperatives as Agents of Socio-Ecological Transition.” The project investigates how housing cooperatives in Switzerland can support more sustainable ways of living. It moves beyond their established role in providing affordable housing to examine innovative social, spatial, and ecological practices a...

Aalborg University is offering a three-year PhD position in resilient LEO satellite communications and positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) within the Wireless Communications PhD programme. The project is part of the Satcom4Defence research and innovation initiative, which develops resilient low-Earth-orbit satellite communication systems for defence-related and other critical societal applications. The PhD researcher will investigate how to improve the robustness and reliability of LEO sate...

This doctoral project at the Department of Earth Sciences, University of Gothenburg, focuses on remote sensing of landscape change in the Arctic . The work combines drone observations collected across the Arctic, a decade of multispectral Sentinel-2 satellite imagery, and recent advances in machine learning and AI to study changes in Arctic land cover. The project is embedded in the department’s doctoral school and in local and international networks of Arctic researchers. The research aims to g...