PhD Opportunities in Art in New Zealand

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...

This PhD scholarship is hosted by the Conservatorio di Musica N. Piccinni in Bari and is centred on the interdisciplinary topic of Computational Electroacoustic Music Composition, Generative Algorithmic Models and Computational Complexity . The programme brings together music theory, composition theory, electroacoustic composition, electronic music, computer science, and mathematics, offering advanced training that links artistic creation with computational and analytical methods. Candidates wil...

The Department of Economics at the University of Graz is inviting applications for a four-year University Assistant position without a PhD, designed for an economics graduate intending to pursue doctoral research. The successful candidate will develop research and write a dissertation in environmental economics , with related work in microeconomics and game theory . The role offers the opportunity to work in a research environment alongside leading scholars, including Univ.-Prof. Dr. Michael Fin...

Sheffield Hallam University’s Creative Industries Institute is offering three Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Doctoral Landscape Awards for PhD study beginning in October 2027. The opportunity supports doctoral research across the arts and humanities, with the Creative Industries Institute providing the academic setting. Potential research directions may connect with creative industries, culture, media, history, literature, film, theatre, music and related humanities disciplines, sub...

Meta XR 3D GenAI is seeking PhD research interns to contribute to research at the intersection of large language models, 3D generative AI, and agentic reinforcement learning . The internship is connected to Meta’s XR-focused 3D GenAI work and is intended for researchers interested in advancing intelligent systems for three-dimensional content and interactive experiences. Potential research directions include combining language-based reasoning with 3D generation, developing agentic methods that c...

The University of California, Berkeley offers an interdisciplinary PhD program in Buddhist Studies through the Buddhist Studies Graduate Group. The program examines Buddhism in its many forms within Asian historical and cultural contexts. Students engage closely with Buddhist texts in their original languages while developing an understanding of the historical, social, and cultural environments in which the Buddhist textual tradition developed. The program also encourages students to broaden the...

The Department of Art History at the University of Vienna is recruiting a predoctoral scientific project assistant for the FWF project “A Third Art History? All-Women Exhibitions as Art-Historiographical Interventions.” Led by Ass.-Prof. Dr. Maria Bremer, the project examines all-women exhibitions as sites of feminist art-historical knowledge production. The research addresses how exhibitions organized during and around second-wave feminism challenged male-dominated frameworks in universities an...

The project is based in the Brussels Photonics Team (B-PHOT) at the Faculty of Engineering , Department Applied Physics and Photonics , at Vrije Universiteit Brussel in Brussels. The PhD candidate will work on developing an integrated sensor and analytical workflow for studying applied glass technologies in historic stained-glass windows, with a focus on uncorroded materials. The research combines non-destructive spectroscopic techniques to support the characterization of bulk glass , glass stai...

This PhD position is based at the Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University , where the research environment is described as international and strongly connected to both research and education. The department is large and interdisciplinary, with a substantial community of teachers and PhD students, providing a setting in which the doctoral candidate will work alongside experienced colleagues in computational science. The project is centered on the development of computational and ...