PhD Opportunities in Anthropology in Finland

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting two Doctoral Researchers for a three-year fixed-term period within the profiling action project Language, Diversity, and Participation in Technology-Driven Society (LADiTS) . The positions are based primarily at the Centre for Applied Language Studies and linked to the Department of Language and Communication Studies. The project examines how language shapes participation, epistemic diversity, and social j...

The University of Helsinki’s Faculty of Arts is offering a full-time, three-year doctoral researcher position in archaeology, with the work located in the Department of Cultures. The position is linked to the Academy of Finland–funded SRTOOL project, led by Academy Research Fellow Maria Lahtinen, and places the doctoral researcher in a strongly international, interdisciplinary setting. The project focuses on strontium isotope tools for tracing mobility connected to aquatic diets across the past,...

Doctoral Researcher in Anthropology at the University of Oulu’s Department of Cultural Anthropology, within the Faculty of Humanities, in the EU-funded MITIME doctoral network. The project sits at the intersection of migration, temporality, labour, and urban change in post-industrial Europe. The doctoral researcher will develop an original PhD project in Cultural Anthropology under the provisional theme “Imagining and Representing Urban Pasts and Futures.” The research examines how industrialisa...

The University of Helsinki is offering a 36-month doctoral researcher position in archaeobotany within the Research Council of Finland-funded NeoPlant project, which studies plant use, cultivation and the cultural roles of plants in Neolithic Finland (ca. 3000–1500 BCE). The project examines a major transition in human history: the shift from hunting and gathering towards food production and farming, while also recognising the continued importance of hunting, fishing and gathering in Neolithic F...

The Department of Biological and Environmental Science at the University of Jyväskylä is seeking a doctoral researcher in disease ecology. The position is framed as a fixed-term research appointment intended to support completion of doctoral studies, within an international and multidisciplinary environment. The department highlights research spanning biodiversity, environmental systems, and biological processes from the molecular and cellular level to communities and ecosystems. The opening is ...

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...

The University of Jyväskylä’s Department of Psychology is recruiting 1–2 doctoral researchers for its Doctoral Programme in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience. The fixed-term role is designed for researchers completing doctoral studies and a dissertation in psychology or cognitive neuroscience. Doctoral researchers will conduct research toward their doctoral thesis, advance their doctoral studies, contribute to manuscripts and related scholarly activities, and assist with teaching and other d...

This doctoral opening is based in the Humans, Security and Privacy research group in the Department of Computer Science at Aalto University. The project sits at the intersection of human-computer interaction , psychology, and human-centered security, with a focus on how people experience security and privacy online and how they respond to digital deception , including social engineering. The central research theme is how users judge whether a digital request is genuine when convincing messages, ...

The Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting 1–2 fixed-term Doctoral Researchers for the Doctoral Programme in Psychology and Cognitive Neuroscience, starting 1 January 2027 for up to four years. The position is designed for candidates completing doctoral studies and is open to students with study right in the programme who are supervised by staff from the Department of Psychology. The role is embedded in a vibrant, international, and multidisciplinary research envir...