PhD opportunities in sociology in australia

PhD opportunity at the University of Adelaide in a team focused on health equity and related public health research. The post is shared by Fran Baum , Professor and NHMRC Investigator Fellow at the Stretton Institute, and indicates an exciting place to do a PhD. The opportunity appears to be part of a broader research team including Connie Musolino, Miriam van den Berg (Herzfeld), Toby Freeman, Ashley Schram, Sharon Friel, Katherine Cullerton, Nicholas Frank, and Jodie Conduit. The research area...

PhD Scholarship in Social Network Analysis and Child Sexual Abuse Prevention at Deakin University . This opportunity is for a PhD candidate to join the Deakin Covert Networks Lab under the supervision of Professor David Bright . The project is part of an ARC Linkage collaboration and uses social network analysis and other advanced network methods to better understand patterns of child sexual abuse , repeat victimisation, and the timing and location of offending. The research is designed to suppo...

Monash University is offering a PhD scholarship in AI Detection of Misogynistic Backlash Ecosystems , an interdisciplinary project at the intersection of computer science, information technology, linguistics, statistics, and social science . The project will investigate how natural language processing (NLP) , large language models (LLMs) , machine learning , and network analysis can be used to detect and analyse misogynistic backlash across social media and online platforms. Research themes incl...

This PhD scholarship at Monash University offers a unique opportunity to contribute to high-impact, policy-relevant research focused on improving the experiences and outcomes of Australian adults making workers’ compensation claims. The project is based within the Healthy Working Lives Group in the School of Public Health and Preventive Medicine and is supported by the Australian Laureate Fellowship program, Reforming Work Disability Benefit Systems for Contemporary Australian Society. The resea...

This PhD scholarship at Monash University, based within the Faculty of Arts and the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Elimination of Violence Against Women (CEVAW), offers a unique opportunity to investigate the relationship between misogyny as an ideology, social practice, and mobilising force, and its role in contemporary forms of political violence and transnational digital repression. The project will draw on interdisciplinary research to examine how misogynistic norms and beliefs intersect w...

This interdisciplinary PhD scholarship at Monash University offers a unique opportunity to advance research at the intersection of artificial intelligence, social sciences, and gender studies. The project, 'AI Detection of Misogynistic Backlash Ecosystems,' aims to develop computational approaches for detecting and analysing misogynistic discourse and coordinated harassment across social media and online platforms. Leveraging natural language processing (NLP), large language models (LLMs), machi...

This fully funded PhD scholarship at Monash University offers an exciting opportunity to investigate the emergence and influence of misogyny within online manosphere communities. The project will explore how digital subcultures shape attitudes, identities, and behaviours, focusing on the construction, sharing, and legitimisation of misogynistic narratives in online spaces. It will also examine the intersection of these communities with broader men’s rights movements and the political economy und...

Fully funded PhD scholarship at the University of Canberra for research in deliberative democracy , participatory democracy , and related areas such as democratic innovations , democratic resilience , deliberative systems , AI and digital politics , environmental politics , inclusion, identity, and gender. The opportunity is hosted by the Centre for Deliberative Democracy , a world-leading research centre in Australia. The successful candidate will join a supportive doctoral research environment...

RMIT University is inviting applications for PhD students to work on plastic pollution projects at the RMIT Centre for Nature Positive Solutions in Melbourne, Australia. The call covers multiple research directions, and candidates may also propose their own project ideas. The advertised themes include: Plastisphere Mobilome (horizontal gene transfer, microbial adaptation, biogeochemical perturbation, multi-omics, DOM, FTICR-MS, UHPLC, microsensors), Plastic pollution: a socioeconomic-technologic...