PhD Opportunities in Philosophy

This PhD studentship investigates how the increasing replacement of human staff by artificial intelligence may create new forms of digital inequality. The project, Human contact as a costly premium: the consequences of new digital inequalities , examines what happens when access to human contact becomes a service that only some people can afford. Working across the UK and Italy, the doctoral researcher will study whether unequal access to human interaction affects people’s satisfaction, sense of...

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...

Microgrid Resilience PhD at the University of Nottingham will develop a modelling approach for assessing the resilience of small-scale, converter-dominated microgrids. The project addresses reliable electricity supply in systems that integrate renewable and distributed energy resources. The research will examine how microgrids can operate autonomously when the upstream grid fails, improve electricity-system resilience, reduce energy not supplied and potentially provide financial benefits through...

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...

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...

TurboImpact is a Horizon Europe MSCA Doctoral Network project hosted at EPFL in Neuchatel, within STI IGM LAMD. The position focuses on the integrated design and optimization of small-scale turbomachinery for applications such as heat pumps, fuel cells, organic Rankine cycles, and gas turbines. The PhD project aims to build robust design methods for high-speed turbomachinery systems. The successful candidate will work on developing reduced-order models for gas-bearing supported turbomachinery, c...

This PhD project investigates how humanitarian risk pools can respond to a changing climate and make resilient financial decisions under uncertainty. Risk pools such as Start Ready, African Risk Capacity, and the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility use predefined triggers, including flood forecast probabilities, to release pooled funds before or after disasters. The research will examine how climate science, data science, and decision science can be combined to improve the modelling th...

Aalto University is seeking a Doctoral Researcher to work on physics-enhanced machine learning for floating offshore wind digital twins . The project sits at the intersection of marine hydrodynamics, offshore structural dynamics and data-driven modelling, with a focus on estimating and monitoring the behaviour of floating wind turbines in demanding sea conditions. Floating wind turbines experience complex motions in six degrees of freedom under irregular waves and turbulent wind. Their mooring l...