The Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium, is offering two full-time Research & Teaching Assistant positions in Political Science. These roles are ideal for candidates interested in pursuing a PhD while gaining teaching experience in a dynamic, multicultural academic environment. ULB is renowned for its international collaboration, diversity, and academic excellence, with a third of its students and researchers coming from abroad. The positions are based in the Faculty of Phil...

The Brussels School of Governance at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is offering a fully funded PhD position on the project “The Weaponisation of Ideas: US–China Competition in the Symbolic Field,” supervised by Prof. Caterina Carta. This research opportunity is based at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) in Brussels, Belgium, and is funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO). The project investigates the ideational and symbolic dimensions of US–China rivalry from 2000 ...

Ghent University invites applications for a full-time doctoral fellowship in the Department of European, Public and International Law, as part of the interdisciplinary UNPACK project. The UNPACK project, 'Unpacking the asylum procedure in its intersecting linguistic, sociocultural, psychological and legal dimensions', is a pioneering iBOF-funded collaboration among Flemish universities and the Office of the Commissioner General for Refugees and Stateless Persons (CGRS). The project aims to inves...

Ghent University, a top 100 institution in Belgium, invites applications for a fully funded doctoral fellowship in the Department of European, Public and International Law. The position is based at the Human Rights Centre within the Faculty of Law and Criminology, renowned for its expertise in human rights law and interdisciplinary research. The successful candidate will join a collaborative research project focused on 'Innovation and documentation in transitional justice,' with a specific empha...

Ghent University, a leading institution in Belgium, invites applications for a fully funded doctoral fellowship in the Department of European, Public and International Law, based at the Human Rights Centre within the Faculty of Law and Criminology. This position is part of the ERC project “Innovation and documentation. Reconstructing the paradigm of transitional justice from the ground up,” focusing on grassroots documentation initiatives of violations of international human rights and humanitar...

The Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) invites applications for a funded PhD position titled "The Weaponisation of Ideas: US-China Competition in the Symbolic Field." This opportunity is embedded within the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) at the Brussels School of Governance, a leading research centre specializing in international security, diplomacy, and strategy. The project, led by Professor Caterina Carta and funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO), focuses on the id...

The Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel is inviting applications for one postdoctoral and one doctoral position as part of the project, “The Weaponisation of Ideas: US–China Competition in the Symbolic Field.” This research opportunity is ideal for candidates interested in political science, international relations, and the dynamics of symbolic politics between major global powers. The project explores how ideas are weaponised in the context of US–Chi...

Ghent University’s Human Rights Centre and Justice Visions team are offering three fully funded PhD positions in the Faculty of Law and Criminology, Department of European, Public and International Law. These positions focus on transitional justice, documentation, and human rights, with specific projects on Palestine, the Philippines, and redress for colonial harm in Belgium. The research is interdisciplinary, combining law, social sciences, anthropology, and empirical methods, and is situated w...

The PhD Research Fellowship in AI, Politics and Society at KU Leuven offers an outstanding opportunity to join the Leuven International and European Studies (LINES) research group within the Faculty of Social Sciences. LINES collaborates closely with the Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD), a multidisciplinary centre dedicated to conceptual, empirical, and applied research on building peaceful and cohesive societies. The new research line focuses on the transformative impact of a...