PhD Opportunities in Communication Studies in Italy

Queen’s University Belfast is offering a PhD project in Media Studies examining screen industries, misleading video, AI-generated content and public trust during episodes of public disorder in Northern Ireland. Focusing on anti-immigrant disorder in Belfast and Ballymena, the research will investigate how video is edited, shared and interpreted by different audiences. It will explore what makes footage credible, how newsrooms respond to disputed clips, and what evidence is needed to determine wh...

Aalborg University is offering a three-year PhD position in resilient LEO satellite communications and positioning, navigation and timing (PNT) within the Wireless Communications PhD programme. The project is part of the Satcom4Defence research and innovation initiative, which develops resilient low-Earth-orbit satellite communication systems for defence-related and other critical societal applications. The PhD researcher will investigate how to improve the robustness and reliability of LEO sate...

[ESRC-funded studentship covering tuition fees and an annual tax-free living stipend at UKRI minimum rates, currently £21,805 for 2026/27.] This ESRC-funded PhD studentship sits within Swansea University’s Media, Communications and Public Relations community, in the Journalism, Democracy and Digital Media pathway. The advert highlights a lively research environment with expertise spanning print and broadcast journalism, digital news media, fact checking, disordered information, hate speech, raci...

Uppsala University is offering a fully funded PhD position in Media and Communication Studies , based in the Department of Informatics and Media in Sweden. The doctoral researcher will study young people’s use of AI chatbots for emotional support and personal well-being . The project investigates how young people engage with conversational AI in contexts involving personal support, emotional needs, and everyday well-being. The position is part of the Swedish Research Council-funded “AI Confident...

This PhD project at Delft University of Technology focuses on participatory data governance for a just energy transition , within the FEDERATE NWO project. The research asks how energy data sharing can support city-level policy making with digital twins while also addressing questions of justice, trust, power, and shared stewardship. The doctoral candidate will work on Work Package 2 of FEDERATE and collaborate with residents, local organisations, municipalities, grid operators, and technology p...

KU Leuven is inviting applications for a PhD project in semantic-aware joint communication and sensing in distributed non-terrestrial networks. The researcher will join WaveCoRE in the Department of Electrical Engineering (ESAT) in Leuven, Belgium. The project investigates how aerial sensing networks can exchange meaningful information while reducing energy and bandwidth consumption. The work will explore semantic communication for efficient coordination among aerial nodes, PHY–MAC cross-layer d...

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...

This PhD scholarship is based at Monash University’s Clayton campus in Melbourne and sits within a Monash AI Institute collaboration between the Arts and IT faculties. The project investigates communication and navigation for blind and low vision people, with a particular focus on how people interact with digital navigational technologies and use multimodal information to build a navigational frame of reference. The student will carry out detailed linguistic and multimodal research on real-world...

This PhD project is centred on improving communication about dementia prevention and dementia diagnosis. Working across two major consortia, the doctoral researcher will explore the needs of patients, citizens, relatives and healthcare professionals, and then co-develop practical communication tools and training for use in clinical and care settings. The project spans two complementary research lines. In the prevention project, BIRD-NL, the PhD candidate will study which messages encourage behav...