PhD Opportunities in Journalism in Germany

The International PhD Programme (IPP) in Literary and Cultural Studies at Justus Liebig University Giessen is a structured, research-oriented doctoral programme designed for students working in literary and cultural studies. It brings together four main research areas: literary and cultural theory, genre theory, literary and cultural historiography, and comparative and interdisciplinary issues. The programme is embedded in a broad humanities environment at Justus Liebig University Giessen, with ...

The International Graduate School GFL at the University of Education Freiburg offers a structured doctoral programme in German as a Foreign Language (Deutsch als Fremdsprache). The programme is run in cooperation with the German Jordanian University in Amman and is designed for qualified candidates from the MENA region and beyond who want to pursue research leading to a PhD. The doctoral study is centered on research and teaching in foreign language education, with a particular focus on how Germ...

The Integrated Research Training Group in Molecular Evolutionary Sciences (IMES) at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is an interdisciplinary doctoral programme within CRC 392, focused on molecular evolution and the origin of life. Doctoral candidates work in a highly collaborative environment that brings together physical, chemical, biological, geological, astronomical, and theoretical perspectives to address fundamental questions about life’s emergence and evolution. The programme is desi...

The Integrated Graduate School Solvation Science (iGSS) is a doctoral programme based in Bochum and embedded in the Cluster of Excellence RESOLV. It brings together Ruhr-Universität Bochum, TU Dortmund University, the University of Duisburg-Essen, and local partner institutes including the Max Planck Institutes for Chemical Energy Conversion, Coal Research, and Sustainable Materials. Students join a large interdisciplinary research environment with more than 80 graduate students and over 200 sci...

The Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS) at the University of Mannheim offers a structured doctoral environment for highly qualified students who want to pursue research in Business, Economics, or the Social Sciences . The programme is designed around interdisciplinary training that connects economic and social science perspectives and supports students in building a strong foundation for a research career. Doctoral candidates study in English and follow a modern course program...

Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS) at Freie Universität Berlin offers a structured PhD programme focused on East Asia, with research centred on China, Japan, and Korea. The programme is designed for researchers working across area studies, social sciences, history, anthropology, business and economics, or legal studies. It combines a three-year course phase with a one-year writing phase, giving doctoral researchers a four-year framework for developing and presenting their work. GEAS pr...

Graduate School Language & Literature Munich at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München is a structured doctoral environment for research in linguistics, literature, language education, and cultural studies/cultural history. The programme is organized into four classes: Language , Literature , Language Education , and Culture and History . Each class supports doctoral projects in its own area while contributing to a wider interdisciplinary setting within the Faculty of Languages and Literatures. ...

GradAB is a joint interdisciplinary doctoral programme in labour market research run by the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) and the School of Business, Economics and Society at Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg. The programme is designed for outstanding early-career researchers interested in labour market topics and provides access to the IAB’s unique data resources on employment and social security. These resources support theoretically grounded and empirically driven re...

Friedrich Schiller University Jena is advertising a doctoral candidate/scientific researcher position in the DFG Research Unit “Beyond Crazy” (FOR 5901). The project focuses on conspiracy beliefs and is situated within the psychology of communication and media use. The position is associated with Professor Tobias Rothmund and offers doctoral research within a German Research Foundation-funded research unit. The work will examine conspiracy beliefs in the context of communication and media use, c...