PhD Opportunities in Art in Poland

Ashwini Sansare is recruiting a PhD student to join the BRAIN Lab—Biomechanics, Rehabilitation and Integrative Neuroscience—at Texas A&M University starting in Fall 2027. The lab investigates how the brain controls balance and walking, with particular attention to aging and neurological conditions. Its research combines biomechanics and neuroscience to examine sensory integration and cognitive-motor interactions, with the broader goal of informing rehabilitation. PhD students will gain hands-on ...

Labex CAP offers immersion scholarships that place doctoral researchers in French museums and cultural heritage institutions while they carry out their PhD research. This programme is run by the Labex CAP research cluster at Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and places six PhD students each year in partner institutions such as the Centre Pompidou, the Musée d’Orsay, the Musée Picasso, the Musée des Arts décoratifs, the INHA, and Sèvres. The scholarship is designed to give doctoral researchers...

The Graduate School Practices of Literature (GSPoL) at the University of Münster offers a doctoral programme in English Studies with a strong interdisciplinary profile. It brings together literary and cultural studies with insights from the philosophy of science and broader debates in the humanities and social sciences, encouraging students to rethink the cultural and social relevance of literature. The programme is organised around three interconnected research areas: Literature, Culture, and S...

The University of Vienna is seeking a predoctoral assistant for the Institute for Prehistory and Historical Archaeology, in the field of Metal Age lifeworlds. The position is connected with Katharina Rebay-Salisbury’s Body and Material Culture research group and focuses on bioarchaeological research into features and finds from research and rescue excavations. The successful candidate will participate in ongoing research projects and develop a dissertation on Iron Age burial or settlement featur...

This PhD programme in Arte, Tecnologia e Percezione is offered by the Conservatorio di Musica Luigi Cherubini in Florence, within a wider AFAM network that also involves the Academy of Fine Arts , the Conservatory of Music and ISIA Design in the city. The course is described as a three-year study and research programme designed to train researchers with advanced skills in the field of expressive forms that connect musical and artistic languages . The emphasis is on analysis and scientific invest...

The University of Fine Arts Hamburg (HFBK) offers a doctoral programme leading to the degree of Dr phil in Art (philosophiae in artibus) . The programme is rooted in the university’s transdisciplinary approach and supports dissertations that examine the arts, their preconditions, contexts, and functions from multiple perspectives. Research may focus on artistic works themselves or on the historical, social, media-related, and cultural processes that shape artistic discourse. The programme also w...

This PhD position at the Trondheim Academy of Fine Art within the Faculty of Architecture and Design at NTNU focuses on Artistic Research – Digital Environments . The project explores how AI and other emerging technologies reshape knowledge production, creative practice, accountability, and broader social and ecological transformation through artistic and practice-based research. The successful candidate will develop an independent research project that connects artistic inquiry with digital tec...

[Fully funded for up to 4 years; full coverage of EU/Non-EU tuition fees; monthly stipend; dedicated research and fieldwork allowance for international fieldwork, archival research, and conference presentations.] The Trinity Centre for Asian Studies at Trinity College Dublin, The University of Dublin invites applications for a fully funded four-year doctoral project in Southeast Asian Studies, beginning on 1 September 2027. This opening is designed for an interdisciplinary scholar working across...

[3-year funded PhD studentship with stipend covering maintenance and fee costs; immigration health surcharge and visa fees covered for non-UK citizens; fieldwork costs and selected conference attendance covered; maintenance payments also covered during parental leave.] This 3-year PhD studentship is part of the Zambezian Entanglements in the South-Central African Iron Age (ZAMBEZI) project, an ERC Advanced Grant project led from the University of Cambridge and carried out in collaboration with t...