PhD Opportunities in Anthropology in Canada

The University of Calgary is seeking three highly motivated graduate students for research on Indigenous Planetary Well-being and Indigenous contributions to addressing environmental challenges. Students will be based at the University of Calgary and may undertake significant field work with collaborators and partners across Ontario and Alberta. The opportunities span three connected projects. The Indigenous Urban Climate Action project examines Indigenous climate action in cities, including urb...

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 Olden Lab in the Department of Forest and Conservation Sciences at the University of British Columbia is offering funded MSc and PhD opportunities in freshwater science in Vancouver, Canada. The positions focus on major freshwater research challenges, including freshwater conservation , climate change, sustainable water management, biodiversity, environmental DNA (eDNA), and machine learning. Students will be able to develop research connected to the conservation and management of freshwater...

Simon Fraser University is inviting applications to its research-focused PhD programme in Linguistics for the Fall 2027 intake in Canada. The programme is designed for scholars pursuing advanced research on how language is structured, acquired, used and varied across communities. Potential research directions include language acquisition and cognition , linguistic diversity and variation, meaning and language use, phonetics and phonology, linguistic theory, and computational approaches to langua...

Université Laval in Québec City, Canada, is offering a fully funded PhD position in Anthropology focused on living with cochlear implants , sensory experience, neurotechnologies, and evidence. The project is part of the CIHR-funded Deafnesses project and is supervised by Professor Stephanie Lloyd in the Department of Anthropology. The research examines how people experience and live with cochlear implants, with attention to sensory experience, deafness, clinical contexts, and the broader implica...

PhD opportunity at the University of Toronto in Electrical and Computer Engineering, with research connected to AI for ecology, biodiversity, conservation, and imageomics . The post announces a PhD position for next year and references the University of Toronto’s President’s Impact Scholarship Program , suggesting scholarship-backed doctoral study. The opportunity is associated with the University of Toronto Engineering / Electrical and Computer Engineering department. Research themes: artificia...

Professor Patrina Duhaney at the University of Calgary is advertising fully funded research openings in the Faculty of Social Work for candidates interested in social justice, equity, and community well-being . The post mentions opportunities for research assistants and research associates , and also says the openings are relevant for master’s, PhD, or postdoc applicants. This is a strong fit for students and early-career researchers with interests in social work , sociology , public health , an...

Ehab Diab, Assistant Professor in the Department of Geography and Planning at the University of Saskatchewan, is recruiting 2–3 PhD students for the Fall 2027 intake. The positions are fully funded and supported by NSERC and SSHRC. Research topics include 15-minute cities , proximity planning , public transit user experience , and social equity . Students will work on meaningful projects with research partners and collaborate with scholars from Canada, Germany, and the Netherlands. This opportun...

PhD assistantship in moose population ecology at Trent University in Peterborough, Ontario, Canada . The project is part of a large, multi-year field study on the factors limiting and regulating moose populations in Ontario, with a strong focus on population dynamics , predator-prey dynamics , and variation in moose vital rates. The student will join a team working with GPS-collared moose, American black bears, wolves, and white-tailed deer, and will help assess cause-specific mortality and broa...