Queen's University Belfast is offering a fully funded PhD opportunity in Public Consultation and Policy-Making, supervised by Dr Jamie Pow. This project will empirically examine the role of public consultation in policy-making within the devolved context of Northern Ireland, focusing on the Northern Ireland Executive’s 2024-27 Programme for Government (PfG). Applicants will use frameworks from democratic theory to analyze the nature, implementation, and impact of public consultation, potentially...

The Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB) in Brussels, Belgium, is offering two full-time Research & Teaching Assistant positions in Political Science. These roles are ideal for candidates interested in pursuing a PhD while gaining teaching experience in a dynamic, multicultural academic environment. ULB is renowned for its international collaboration, diversity, and academic excellence, with a third of its students and researchers coming from abroad. The positions are based in the Faculty of Phil...

The Department of Political Science at the University of Copenhagen invites applications for one postdoctoral and two PhD positions as part of the ERC-funded project “Moralizing Politics: The Practice of Judging Others” (MoPo), led by Professor Christian F. Rostbøll. The project explores the role of moral judgment in contemporary politics, focusing on how practices such as cancel culture, climate shaming, and discourses around the dignity of work shape democratic accountability, polarization, an...

The Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies at the University of Bern, Switzerland, is inviting applications for two full-time PhD positions as part of the ERC Starting Grant Project “Legal Governmentality - governing climate activism through criminal law and human rights in Europe (LeGo)” (2026–2031). The project investigates how climate activism, particularly civil disobedience, is governed through legal frameworks, criminal law, and human rights discourses in Europe, with a foc...

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) is inviting applications for a PhD candidate and postdoctoral researchers to join the NWO Vidi project on Emotions in Regulatory Politics within the Department of Political Science and Public Administration. The positions are embedded in the Regulatory Behavior Lab , which investigates how regulatory authorities behave, decide, and communicate, and how these practices influence citizens’ perceptions of legitimacy and compliance behavior. The Vidi proje...

Ghent University is inviting applications for a PhD/Researcher position in Responsible AI and Law in Crime & Security, as part of the ERC-funded BIGDATPOL project led by Prof. Wim Hardyns. The project investigates the legal, regulatory, and ethical challenges of artificial intelligence in high-stakes societal domains such as policing, law enforcement, and crime prevention. The research will focus on data-driven risk systems, AI decision-making, fundamental rights, GDPR, and the AI Act. The succe...

The Brussels School of Governance at Vrije Universiteit Brussel (VUB) is offering a fully funded PhD position on the project “The Weaponisation of Ideas: US–China Competition in the Symbolic Field,” supervised by Prof. Caterina Carta. This research opportunity is based at the Centre for Security, Diplomacy and Strategy (CSDS) in Brussels, Belgium, and is funded by the Flemish Research Foundation (FWO). The project investigates the ideational and symbolic dimensions of US–China rivalry from 2000 ...

St. Thomas University’s Institute for Ethical Leadership is now accepting applications for its graduate programs in Ethical Leadership for Summer and Fall 2026. The programs offer both Master’s and Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) degrees, designed to cultivate advanced ethical reasoning, scholarly research, and applied leadership competencies. Graduates are prepared for leadership roles across academic, corporate, nonprofit, and public sectors, with a strong emphasis on ethical leadership and decisio...

This fully funded PhD position at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU Amsterdam) focuses on the role of emotions in regulatory politics, as part of the VIDI research project "Emotion-Infused Risk Regulation: Rethinking the Fundamentals of Regulatory Governance for Citizen-Centric Rulemaking," funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO). The project, led by Associate Professor Dovilė Rimkutė, investigates how emotions such as anger, fear, anxiety, and trust influence regulatory decision-making, legit...