PhD Opportunities in Theology

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...

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...

MINARET is recruiting 15 fully funded PhD researchers through an MSCA Doctoral Network coordinated by Lund University and involving 11 leading universities across Europe. The network examines the sociology of post-imperial Islamic legal cultures and the relationships between law, religion, governance, constitutionalism, democratisation and social change. Projects address Muslim-majority societies shaped by imperial legacies and contemporary political transformations, with a geographic focus span...

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...

Killam Research Fellowships provide support to scholars of exceptional ability for major research projects with broad significance and widespread interest. The scheme is designed to give recipients time to pursue advanced research across a wide disciplinary range. The fellowship is open to work in the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, health sciences, engineering, and interdisciplinary studies that link these fields. It is therefore suited to researchers developing ambitious project...

The Jena Schumpeter Center for Research on Socio-Economic Change (JSEC) at Friedrich Schiller University Jena offers a doctoral programme for research on socio-economic change in an interdisciplinary setting. The centre brings together doctoral training across related programmes, including the Graduate School on Social and Behavioural Change and the Graduate College Economics of Innovative Change. The programme is designed around the idea that complex questions about social and economic change b...

This PhD project at the Laboratory for Human-Environment Relations in Urban Systems (HERUS), within EPFL's School of Architecture, Civil and Environmental Engineering, investigates how urban provisioning systems can support low-carbon futures while maintaining or improving human well-being. The research connects urban systems, human behaviour, perceptions, and subjective well-being with socio-metabolic analysis. The doctoral researcher will examine how urban planning interventions and changes in...

The University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Social Sciences is offering a doctoral researcher position in a project on education-related inequalities. The post is based in the Helsinki Institute for Demography and Population Health and is part of a Research Council of Finland funded project, Education – a Universal Solvent? Towards a Cross-Disciplinary Synthesis . The project examines educational differences across several connected research areas: intergenerational social stratification, population...