PhD Opportunities in Literature

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

The International Graduate School GFL at the University of Education Freiburg offers a structured doctoral programme in German as a Foreign Language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache). The programme is run in cooperation with the German Jordanian University in Amman and is designed for qualified candidates from the MENA region and beyond who want to pursue research leading to a PhD. The doctoral study is centered on research and teaching in foreign language education, with a particular focus on how Germ...