PhD Opportunities in Linguistics in France

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...

This PhD project is about improving reverse engineering for side-channel analysis on embedded systems. The thesis targets situations where security assessment of a device must begin with a preparatory detection phase, for example to identify cryptographic primitives in traces for future observation attacks or to locate target routines for fault-based attacks. The goal is to design non-profiled methods and tools that can automate this detection stage while also leveraging an attacker’s prior know...

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...

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...

Applications are open for the 2026 John G. Bene Fellowship from the International Development Research Centre (IDRC) . This student award supports master’s and doctoral students conducting field research in the Global South for their thesis work. It is designed for students whose academic background combines an interest in forests with social sciences , and whose research examines the relationship between forest resources and the social, economic, cultural, and environmental welfare of people in...

🎓 Fully funded international PhD opportunity in Human-Computer Interaction and Philosophy of Technology , based at ENAC in Toulouse, France , with the possibility to spend part of the project at Aalborg University in the Human Augmentation and Collaboration group. The project explores a timely research question in interaction design : why some interaction techniques become widely adopted while many others fail to catch on. The research will investigate how techniques emerge, evolve, and succeed ...