PhD Opportunities in Art in Finland

The University of California, Berkeley offers a PhD program in Classical Archaeology , focused on the archaeology of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds. The program is housed in the Department of Ancient Greek & Roman Studies and provides broad preparation across the humanities and social sciences. Students develop one or more specializations while building expertise in the material, textual, and cultural evidence of the ancient Mediterranean. The program emphasizes archaeological fieldwork in t...

The Galway Doctoral Research Scholarship at the University of Galway supports full-time doctoral research within the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies . It is designed for students whose projects sit in the arts, social sciences, or Celtic studies, with examples in the advert including history, geography, archaeology, English, music, philosophy, psychology, sociology, classics, and modern languages such as French, German, Italian, or Spanish. The scholarship is intended for a ...

The Michael Greene Memorial Scholarship at Burren College of Art supports postgraduate students in Fine Art at a small independent art college on the west coast of Ireland. It offers a tuition fee reduction for students showing outstanding talent and financial need. The award is available to international (non-EU) students accepted onto full-time postgraduate study, including PhD, MFA, MA in Studio Art or Art & Ecology, and the Post-Baccalaureate in Studio Art or Art & Ecology. PhD and MFA stude...

The University of Stavanger is offering a PhD fellowship in Arts and Culture in Education , with emphasis on Drama and Theatre , within the Faculty of Arts and Education and its Department of Education and Sports Science. The doctoral project will investigate the role of arts and culture—particularly drama and theatre—in Norway’s future common school. It will generate empirical knowledge about how arts- and culture-based approaches can support a more practical, relevant and inclusive school, and...

[For eligible students, the studentship covers home tuition fees plus an annual tax-free stipend.] This PhD studentship explores costly signalling and mate search in wild fiddler crabs , using West African fiddler crabs ( Afruca tangeri ) as a model for understanding how sexual displays evolve and how mate choice operates in dynamic social environments. The project combines evolutionary modelling with cutting-edge behavioural experiments . On the theoretical side, the student will build models u...

Pigott Scholarships at the University of Cambridge support doctoral study in the humanities and social sciences. This award is intended for students pursuing a research-based PhD at Cambridge, with two scholarships available each year. The scholarship sits within the University of Cambridge’s named scholarship offering and was established in 2008 following a £2 million donation from the Pigott family. It is aimed at high-achieving students whose research and academic interests fall within the ar...

This PhD scholarship is hosted by the Conservatorio di Musica N. Piccinni in Bari and is centred on the interdisciplinary topic of Computational Electroacoustic Music Composition, Generative Algorithmic Models and Computational Complexity . The programme brings together music theory, composition theory, electroacoustic composition, electronic music, computer science, and mathematics, offering advanced training that links artistic creation with computational and analytical methods. Candidates wil...

The Department of Economics at the University of Graz is inviting applications for a four-year University Assistant position without a PhD, designed for an economics graduate intending to pursue doctoral research. The successful candidate will develop research and write a dissertation in environmental economics , with related work in microeconomics and game theory . The role offers the opportunity to work in a research environment alongside leading scholars, including Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Fin...

Sheffield Hallam University’s Creative Industries Institute is offering three Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards for PhD study beginning in October 2027. The opportunity supports doctoral research across the arts and humanities, with the Creative Industries Institute providing the academic setting. Potential research directions may connect with creative industries, culture, media, history, literature, film, theatre, music and related humanities disciplines, sub...