PhD Opportunities in Sociology in Finland

The University of Jyväskylä is advertising two doctoral researcher positions in applied language studies at the Centre for Applied Language Studies (Solki). Solki is a research institute that produces evidence-based knowledge about language education and about language-related phenomena, needs, and challenges in a changing society. The centre’s research spans three main areas: assessment of language proficiency and learning , language learning, teaching, and competence , and language in communit...

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 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...

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...

INFLUENCE is an MSCA Doctoral Network, “Legacies, Interdependencies, Power: Russian Influences in the European Periphery,” bringing together five universities across Europe to study Russian influence in Europe through interdisciplinary research, advanced methods training, and engagement with policy stakeholders. The University of Helsinki project, “Teaching Authoritarianism: Russia’s Role in Promoting Illiberal Governance,” examines how illiberal governance models inspired by Russian practices s...

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...

This PhD opening is based in the Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki , within the Department of Pharmacology and Drug Therapy . The project focuses on medication safety and treatment effectiveness as part of social and clinical pharmacy research. The doctoral researcher will work on developing new effective operating models, methods and evidence to identify, prevent and manage medication-related risks in social and healthcare. The main research areas include risk management for med...

The Faculty of Pharmacy at the University of Helsinki is seeking a doctoral researcher in social and clinical pharmacy for a fixed-term employment relationship of up to five years. The position is based in the Department of Pharmacology and Drug Therapy. The research area sits within a multidisciplinary health sciences field that focuses on optimizing patients’ medication use, promoting health, and preventing disease. The advertised area covers the use, availability, and effectiveness of medicin...