PhD Opportunities in Political Science

PhD opportunity in Human–AI Interaction, Operations and Supply Chain Management This doctoral project is part of the Global Human-AI Alliance and explores how artificial intelligence can be integrated with human decision-making to address real-world challenges in operations and supply chain management. The research is jointly supervised by Kejia Hu at the University of Oxford and Professor Stefan Minner at the Technical University of Munich. The doctoral degree will be awarded by TUM, with the p...

Baltic Peripeties is an interdisciplinary International Research Training Group hosted by the University of Greifswald’s Faculty of Arts and Humanities in trinational cooperation with the University of Tartu and NTNU Trondheim. The programme explores narratives of Reformations, Revolutions and Catastrophes around the Baltic region. It welcomes doctoral projects that define a distinctive research focus while contributing to the programme’s broader intellectual framework. Doctoral research may be ...

The University of Sussex is offering a funded full-time PhD in LGBTQ+ health and wellbeing inequalities , based in the School of Psychology within the Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine at Falmer, UK. The project is supervised by Dr Ellen Thompson and sits within an interdisciplinary Wellcome Discovery Award focused on pathways to health equity for LGBTQ+ populations. The research will investigate the social, structural and individual determinants of health and health inequalities amon...

The University of Wuppertal is offering a PhD position in health psychology within the interdisciplinary research project BergRadResort Remscheid (BergR³). The doctoral researcher will investigate how cycling can become safer, more attractive and more natural through innovative measures and targeted behavioural change strategies. The project combines health psychology with active mobility research, quantitative methods and practical, participatory research. A central feature of the work is colla...

The Department of Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim is recruiting a doctoral researcher for a four-year PhD project in sociology. The project, “Power, governance, and the political economy of fighting antimicrobial resistance,” examines how antimicrobial resistance is addressed through systems of governance, political decision-making and economic relations. The research sits at the intersection of sociology, governance, anti...

PhD scholarship: Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Greenland’s Firn Tipping Point DTU Space, part of the National Space Institute at the Technical University of Denmark, is recruiting a PhD student for a three-year research project on Greenland’s firn and its role in future sea-level rise. Greenland’s firn—the porous, compacted snow layer on the ice sheet—can currently refreeze a substantial amount of summer meltwater. This storage capacity is finite, however, and the project will investigat...

Lund University is advertising two research opportunities within Stefan Larsson’s team: a PhD position and a postdoctoral position focused on law, technology and society. The doctoral opening is titled “Doctoral student in Technology and Society on regulatory learning and supervisory competence.” The research addresses how regulation is learned and how supervisory competence develops in relation to technological change. The opportunities are connected with Stefan Larsson’s research group on AI a...

The University of Colorado Boulder’s Leeds School of Business is inviting applications to its PhD Program in Organizational Behavior . The program examines phenomena in organizational settings through a variety of research approaches and prepares doctoral researchers for academic careers in management and adjacent fields. Organizational Behavior faculty include Russell Cropanzano, Stefanie K. Johnson, David Hekman, Christina Lacerenza, Rebecca Mitchell, and the PhD Director. The division also in...

King’s Brazil Institute is sharing fully funded joint PhD scholarship opportunities for doctoral researchers interested in Brazil. The programme supports a joint PhD between King’s College London and the University of São Paulo (USP) , enabling students to develop research across two leading academic environments. Successful scholars will have the opportunity to undertake doctoral research at both institutions, receive international supervision, and join a growing PhD community connected with th...