PhD Opportunities in Psychology in Finland

The Department of Psychology at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting a doctoral researcher for the STN-funded Planetary Mind project. The project examines environmental agency — the ability to make sustainable everyday choices — and its relationship to mental health across different age groups. The doctoral researcher will work in a multidisciplinary consortium and develop a dissertation linked to the project’s research themes. The role combines original research with publication, collabora...

The Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki is seeking a doctoral researcher for the DELUDE project, a practice-oriented research initiative focused on participation, exploratory approaches, and democracy in early childhood education. The position is based in the Department of Pedagogy and is linked to doctoral research carried out within the project. In DELUDE, the doctoral researcher will study how children’s participation can be strengthened through different exploratory...

This doctoral researcher position at the University of Oulu is centered on educational technology, generative artificial intelligence, and teacher learning. The successful candidate will join the Faculty of Education and Psychology and work across two linked projects that place AI-supported pedagogy in real educational contexts. The first project, INTEGRATE, focuses on training teachers to integrate EU matters, topics, and values into everyday teaching through GenAI-supported pedagogy. It involv...

The Faculty of Educational Sciences at the University of Helsinki is recruiting a doctoral researcher for the DELUDE project, which focuses on participation, exploratory approaches, and democracy in early childhood education. The position is based in the Department of Education and is linked to practice-oriented research carried out with staff and child groups in daycare settings. The doctoral student will work on a dissertation within the project’s themes and make use of DELUDE’s collected rese...

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 doctoral researchers for the study lines of psychology and cognitive neuroscience. The position is aimed at students working on a dissertation and is connected to the department’s broader research and teaching environment. The advertised role combines dissertation-focused research, doctoral training, assistant teaching duties, and other related tasks. The department describes a wide research profile spanning learning a...

The Faculty of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting four Doctoral Researchers for a fixed-term position linked to doctoral education in the JYU Graduate School. The posts begin on 4 January 2027, or by agreement, and are designed for candidates working toward completion of a doctoral thesis. The role combines doctoral research with doctoral studies, teaching assistance, and other related duties in an international and multidisciplinary university environment. Th...