PhD Opportunities in Education in Canada

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...

CIHR Fellowship is a recurring fellowship scheme from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research supporting research training in health research. The award is designed for highly qualified trainees at the post-PhD or post-health professional degree stage, with the goal of helping them develop into scientific, professional, or organizational leaders within and beyond the health research enterprise. Fellows can use the award to deepen their research experience by engaging in health research projec...

PhD opportunity in Montréal: Human-Guided Evaluation of Generative AI Systems. This project asks how AI systems can be evaluated in realistic settings, and how to decide which tests or expert judgments provide the most valuable evidence about system risks. The doctoral work will explore probabilistic modelling , adaptive testing , simulated users , and targeted human feedback to build better ways of assessing generative AI. The research connects mathematical foundations with experimentation on l...

The Department of Economics at Simon Fraser University is accepting applications to its PhD program in economics. The program is designed for doctoral students who want to develop advanced expertise in economics and pursue research-oriented careers. The department highlights the career outcomes of its recent graduates, who are working in academia and industry around the world. Prospective applicants can learn more about the program through an information session hosted by Graduate Chair Kevin Sc...

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...

PhD opportunity at the Montreal Behavioural Medicine Centre (MBMC) for a prospective doctoral student contributing to the MOTIVATOR Program, a pan-Canadian study of behaviour change communication training for physicians, nurses, and allied healthcare providers involved in chronic disease management. The PhD research may include behavioural intervention development and design; delivery and assessment of behaviour change communication skills and training programs; behavioural trial methods and rep...

Western University is offering a funded PhD opportunity in Education Studies, with a doctoral field in Applied Linguistics, beginning in September 2027. The program is suited to researchers interested in how people acquire additional languages, how technology influences learning, and how language shapes identity. Research areas include Second Language Acquisition; Language, Discourse, and Identity; Sociocultural Approaches to Language Learning; Computer-Assisted Language Learning; TESOL and Lang...

Nick Eaves, Associate Professor at the University of Windsor, is recruiting a PhD student for the NanoACE group beginning in May 2027. The project focuses on computational modeling of the gas-phase synthesis of carbon quantum dots, fluorescent carbon nanoparticles used widely in sensing. The student will develop models tracing carbon from molecular precursors through the formation of the first nanoparticles. Research methods will include population balance methods, kinetic Monte Carlo, and molec...

PhD position available in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE) at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada. The research group is recruiting a highly motivated PhD student to work on Artificial Intelligence in Wireless Communications , with possible directions including AI/ML for next-generation wireless systems (5G/6G and beyond), agentic AI and intelligent wireless networks, AI-driven resource allocation and network optimization, reinforcement learning and deep learni...