PhD Opportunities in Sociology

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 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...

RWTH Aachen University's Institute for Technology and Innovation Management (TIM) is recruiting for two research assistant positions with the opportunity to pursue a doctorate. The projects examine how sustainable innovations emerge, how new technologies move into practical application, and how regions can benefit from innovation-driven transformation. Data Science & Sustainability This research track applies quantitative and computational methods to socially relevant questions about innovation ...

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is advertising a doctoral candidate/scientific researcher position in the DFG Research Unit “Beyond Crazy” (FOR 5901). The project focuses on conspiracy beliefs and is situated within the psychology of communication and media use. The position is associated with Professor Tobias Rothmund and offers doctoral research within a German Research Foundation-funded research unit. The work will examine conspiracy beliefs in the context of communication and media use, c...

The University of Eastern Finland is advertising six Doctoral Researcher positions within the doctoral programme of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Business Studies. The posts are based at the faculty in Kuopio or Joensuu and are linked to the university’s multidisciplinary research environment, where social sciences and business studies are described as theoretically and methodologically diverse and closely connected to the university strategy. One position will be filled in each of the facu...

INFLUENCE is an MSCA Doctoral Network on Russian influence in Europe’s periphery, bringing together five universities across Europe and combining interdisciplinary expertise in political science, international relations, sociology, history, media studies, security studies, area studies, and political economy. The University of Helsinki project focuses on how migration is used as a tool of influence and destabilisation in Europe’s eastern periphery. The doctoral researcher will investigate how Ru...

Cameron Jones is recruiting a PhD student to join the CLIC Lab at Stony Brook University. The lab investigates how people and large language models differ, how people interact with LLMs, and the effects that LLMs may have on human cognition and society. This opportunity is suited to students interested in psychology, cognitive science, human–AI interaction, and the social consequences of artificial intelligence. Research in the lab is positioned at the intersection of human cognition and rapidly...

This doctoral position is based in the Department of Psychology at Mid Sweden University and centers on a research project at the intersection of social psychology and sociolinguistics. The project investigates how accents function as social signals and how foreign accents shape social perception, attitudes, emotions, and behaviours. The research addresses themes of stereotypes, discrimination, and social inclusion from both Swedish and international perspectives, with a consistent gender perspe...