PhD Opportunities in History in France

This doctoral project is part of the ANR PALWOOD programme (2026–2030), which investigates the evolution of wood during the Paleozoic, from the first appearance of wood in the early Devonian to the end-Permian crisis. The project brings together researchers from multiple French research units, including AMAP (Montpellier), CR2P (Paris) and EEP (Lille), with international collaborators. The thesis focuses on the anatomical disparity of homoxylous woods , i.e. woods without vessels. The doctoral r...

The doctoral project is part of the interdisciplinary AcrioFarm research on overdoses, within the CNRS PRIME team directed by Marie Jauffret-Roustide . It focuses on the experience of opioids among users, with particular attention to access to care and harm reduction in a context marked by the spread of synthetic opioids and rising overdose rates. The thesis will examine users’ preferences for natural and synthetic opioids, their experiences of treatment and harm reduction services, and the prev...

INRAE Doctoral Contracts are salaried PhD positions hosted by France’s national research institute for agriculture, food and the environment. The institute has around 272 research units across France, giving doctoral researchers access to a wide national research network. These contracts support doctoral research linked to INRAE’s scientific areas, especially agriculture, food, ecology and the environment. The position is structured as a work contract rather than a stipend, so doctoral researche...

This CNRS InSHS opportunity offers a 3-year doctoral employment contract in the humanities and social sciences at CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales in France. It is a paid doctoral position rather than a scholarship, and it includes a compulsory research placement abroad at one of the CNRS international units. The scheme is designed for doctoral projects that combine research in France with an international mobility component. The placement abroad is intended to support the project through colla...

Observatoire B2V des Mémoires offers a doctoral grant to support one early-career researcher each year on a PhD project focused broadly on memory. The award is designed to fund doctoral research carried out in a research laboratory in France, with the money paid to the host laboratory rather than directly to the student. The scholarship supports interdisciplinary doctoral work on memory in its many forms, including individual, collective, animal and digital memory. The advert explicitly encourag...

Co-sponsored doctoral grants from the French Ministry of Defence support PhD research on topics relevant to French defence, through the Agence de l’innovation de défense (AID). The programme funds a wide range of projects each year and is designed for candidates whose research aligns with the agency’s priorities in the natural and engineering sciences, as well as defence-related social sciences. The grant is intended for doctoral research carried out in a French laboratory, with the funding paid...

Labex CAP offers immersion scholarships that place doctoral researchers in French museums and cultural heritage institutions while they carry out their PhD research. This programme is run by the Labex CAP research cluster at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and places six PhD students each year in partner institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée Picasso, the Musée des Arts décoratifs, the INHA, and Sèvres. The scholarship is designed to give doctoral researchers...

The French Family Allowance Fund (Cnaf), the national umbrella organisation of the CAF social security network, is offering support for young researchers working on family and social policy, or on social issues linked to families or poverty. The main opportunity is a three-year PhD contract under the CIFRE programme. In this arrangement, the doctoral researcher is assigned to an organisation and divides their time between Cnaf and their research laboratory. The post is designed for a project wit...

École Normale Supérieure (ENS-PSL) in Paris, France, invites applications for a three-year contractual PhD position in philosophy , focused on contemporary forms of disinformation. The doctoral research will be hosted by the République des Savoirs and supervised by Mathias Girel, Senior Lecturer in Philosophy at the Centre Cavaillès. The project examines disinformation not only as the circulation of false or misleading content, but also as mechanisms affecting the production, circulation, hierar...