PhD Opportunities in Philosophy 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

PhD opportunity in inclusive design methodology for reconfigurable manufacturing systems integrating human capability variability . The position is based at Arts et Métiers Institute of Technology in Metz, France , with the LCFC Laboratory and the INCLUSTRIE Project in collaboration with PERSEUS, University of Lorraine . Research interests include industrial engineering , mechanical engineering , human factors , ergonomics , and interdisciplinary approaches to manufacturing system design. Eligib...

🎓 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 ...

🚀 Fully funded PhD opportunity at IMT Mines Albi in France, within the Centre Génie Industriel (CGI) . The project, MOBIUS , asks: How can we make better use of the mobility resources already available in rural and low-density territories? The PhD will focus on rural mobility , resource sharing , decision support , and knowledge modelling . The candidate will develop a decision-support framework to identify when, where, and under which conditions heterogeneous mobility resources can be shared, w...