PhD Opportunities in Communication Studies in Ireland

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...

Pigott Scholarships at the University of Cambridge support doctoral study in the humanities and social sciences. This award is intended for students pursuing a research-based PhD at Cambridge, with two scholarships available each year. The scholarship sits within the University of Cambridge’s named scholarship offering and was established in 2008 following a £2 million donation from the Pigott family. It is aimed at high-achieving students whose research and academic interests fall within the ar...

The Digital Democracy Centre at the University of Southern Denmark in Odense is offering one or more full-time PhD positions on conspiracy theories in political communication within the German Research Foundation-funded research unit “Beyond Crazy: Integrating Benefits into the Analysis of Conspiracy Beliefs” . The project focuses on how conspiracy theories circulate among political communicators, how media and the public react to such content, and how politicians perceive conspiracy theories. T...

The project is a doctoral research position at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, based in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Solvay Business School within the Department of Communication Sciences and the Research Group Studies in Media, Innovation and Technology (imec-SMIT). The PhD research is embedded in the Horizon Europe project EU ADAPTEM , which develops new digital tools to improve health and well-being for children and adults with severe intellectual disabilities and their caregivers. The ...

The Observatoire des politiques culturelles (OPC), the cultural policy research institute of the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, is offering support for doctoral research focused on cultural policy or cultural practices in French-speaking Belgium. This opportunity is aimed at PhD students enrolled at a university or other higher education institution in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation. The project should examine issues connected to cultural policy in the Wallonia-Brussels Federation, with scope f...

FRESH Doctoral Grants from the Belgian Fund for Scientific Research in the French-speaking Community (F.R.S.-FNRS) support doctoral research in the humanities and social sciences at universities in the French-speaking Community of Belgium. This award is designed for a PhD project completed over two consecutive funding periods, with support for up to 4 years in total. The grant is intended for candidates undertaking doctoral research at one of the participating universities in Belgium and working...

Hokkaido University’s Graduate School of Science is accepting applications for the International Graduate Course for Data-driven and Hypothesis-driven Science (IGC-DHS), supported by Japanese Government MEXT scholarships for the October 2027 intake. The programme supports Master’s and doctoral research using data-driven and hypothesis-driven approaches across a broad range of natural-science fields. Potential thesis areas include mathematics, physics, cosmosciences, Earth sciences, seismology, b...

Elisa Kreiss is recruiting a PhD student to join the UCLA Communication department and the UCLA NLP group at the University of California, Los Angeles. The research sits at the intersection of computational linguistics, natural language processing, multimodal machine learning, and cognitive science. The project explores how models learn from text and image data and how that learning gives rise to the behaviors observed in trained models. Possible research directions include studying how post-tra...

Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München’s Department of Media and Communication is recruiting two PhD researchers for the ERC-funded DIGIREL project, “Adolescents’ Social Relationships and Well-Being in the Digital Age: Interstitial Communication Patterns and their Outcomes.” The five-year project is based in Munich and is supervised scientifically by Prof. Dr. Ruth Wendt. DIGIREL investigates how adolescents’ interstitial communication—the staccato-like interplay between digital and non-digital ...