PhD Opportunities in Literature in New Zealand

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...

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...

At the Romanisches Seminar of the University of Freiburg, two part-time research assistant positions are available in French and Italian literary and cultural studies. The roles are anchored in a doctoral research environment and are linked to the professorship of Prof. Dr. Manuel Mühlbacher. The successful candidates will work toward a dissertation in French and/or Italian literary and cultural studies while also contributing to the academic life of the chair and seminar. Alongside their own do...

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...

EPFL is offering a full-time PhD position in the Laloui Group in Lausanne, Switzerland, within the SNSF-funded DFabuLis project, “Digital Fabrication Using Living Systems.” The project is conducted with Dr. Dimitrios Terzis, Senior Scientist in the Laloui Group at EPFL, and co-PI Prof. Benjamin Dillenburger of the Chair of Digital Building Technologies at ETH Zurich. The research explores how biologically driven mineralization can transform demolition and excavation materials into granular mater...

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 project at Maastricht University focuses on the development of humin-based recyclable networks for adhesive and composite applications. The work is embedded in the NWO project KICHumins , a public-private partnership bringing together academic and industrial partners to advance more sustainable materials. The successful candidate will join the Aachen-Maastricht Institute for Biobased Materials (AMIBM) within the Faculty of Science and Engineering and work in the Sustainable Polymer Synt...