PhD Opportunities in Media Studies

Uppsala University in Sweden is offering a fully funded, four-year PhD position in the Department of Electrical Engineering, Division of Signals and Systems. The project, “Multi-Modal Environment Modeling for Wireless Spatial Intelligence,” focuses on AI-native wireless systems and next-generation 5G/6G technologies. Research topics include wireless localization, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC), multimodal environment modeling, 3D reconstruction, computer vision, robotics, semantic r...

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...

The Borderlands Research Institute at Sul Ross State University is seeking a graduate research assistant for a PhD or two Master’s positions focused on cinnamon teal movement ecology. The project will track approximately 100 cinnamon teal using GSM-GPS units after capture at Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge in southern Nevada, a major bottleneck in the interior Pacific Flyway. Research objectives include estimating migration strategies and time spent at Pahranagat National Wildlife Refuge, li...

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,...

Two EMANAIRE doctoral positions are open at the University of Ljubljana, School of Economics and Business, in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The full-time doctoral researchers will join the EMANAIRE Marie Skłodowska-Curie Doctoral Network and participate in its international training, research and secondment programme. Project 1: Leadership and Work Design for Meaningfulness in the Age of AI. This PhD project examines how artificial intelligence changes tasks, meaning, dignity and professional identity. T...

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...