
Taught vs Research Master’s: Funding, PhD Entry & an 8-Question Checklist
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University of Southern California
United States
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The USC Price School is accepting applications for fully funded PhD study beginning in Fall 2027 in two doctoral pathways: Urban Planning and Development and Public Policy and Management . Students can shape an individualized academic trajectory after enrollment, with flexibility to select faculty for dissertation committees and research assistantships. The program provides opportunities to collaborate with faculty on research and publish scholarly work, including with Geoff Boeing, Associate Pr...
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University of Basel
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Switzerland
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The Rhine AI research group, led by Prof. I. Bogunovic in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Basel , is offering a PhD opportunity in the post-training of diffusion-based large language models (dLLMs). The SNSF-funded project, “Foundations of Post-Training for Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models,” investigates how post-training can improve the reasoning capabilities of dLLMs. These models represent an emerging alternative to standard autoregressive l...
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Swansea University
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United Kingdom
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Swansea University’s Department of Politics, International Relations and Area Studies is inviting prospective doctoral researchers to apply for a fully funded scholarship within the ESRC Welsh Graduate School for the Social Sciences (WGSSS). The opportunity supports PhD research in Politics, International Relations and Area Studies , offering candidates the chance to join the department and develop an independent research project aligned with its areas of expertise. The department provides a res...
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New York University
Germany
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The Tan Lab at New York University’s School of Medicine and Institute for Systems Genetics is recruiting postdoctoral researchers, PhD students, and research staff. The lab develops machine-learning models to understand and engineer gene regulation. This interdisciplinary research environment combines computational methods with genetics and molecular biology to investigate how regulatory information is encoded and how it can be engineered. Postdoctoral and doctoral researchers would join a syste...
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Victoria University of Wellington
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New Zealand
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The Wellington Doctoral Scholarship 2027 at Te Herenga Waka—Victoria University of Wellington supports international students undertaking full-time PhD research in New Zealand. The scholarship is open across a broad range of academic disciplines, including science, genetics, biotechnology, health, engineering, education, business, humanities, social sciences, law and technology. This multidisciplinary scope allows doctoral candidates to develop research projects aligned with the university's ava...
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CRNS-Institute of Humanities and Social Sciences
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France
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This CNRS InSHS opportunity offers a 3-year doctoral employment contract in the humanities and social sciences at CNRS Sciences humaines & sociales in France. It is a paid doctoral position rather than a scholarship, and it includes a compulsory research placement abroad at one of the CNRS international units. The scheme is designed for doctoral projects that combine research in France with an international mobility component. The placement abroad is intended to support the project through colla...
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Peter Berrill
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Leiden University
Netherlands
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PhD Researcher: Environmental Impacts of Spatial Demographic Change at Leiden University’s Institute of Environmental Sciences (CML) and Faculty of Science is a research project at the intersection of demographic change, spatial analysis, and environmental sustainability. The project examines how spatial population distribution, population ageing, smaller households, and urban form combine to shape future resource demand and greenhouse gas emissions. The research is designed to identify trade-of...
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French Government
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France
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Co-sponsored doctoral grants from the French Ministry of Defence support PhD research on topics relevant to French defence, through the Agence de l’innovation de défense (AID). The programme funds a wide range of projects each year and is designed for candidates whose research aligns with the agency’s priorities in the natural and engineering sciences, as well as defence-related social sciences. The grant is intended for doctoral research carried out in a French laboratory, with the funding paid...
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Roel Vermeulen
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Utrecht University
Netherlands
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This PhD project at the Institute for Risk Assessment Sciences (IRAS) at Utrecht University focuses on how interventions and broader societal transitions affect air quality in the Netherlands. The research sits within the NWA-ORC project ExpACT, which examines the health effects of air pollution and develops improved monitoring technologies and methods for understanding changing pollution levels and sources. You will investigate how real-world interventions change air pollution in a series of pr...
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University of Basel
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Switzerland
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The Rhine AI research group at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Basel, invites applications for a fully funded PhD position in post-training diffusion language models. The project, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation, is titled “Foundations of Post-Training for Reasoning in Diffusion Large Language Models.” The successful candidate will develop reinforcement learning methods for post-training large diffusion-based language models, investigate reasonin...
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Estimated costs in Poland.
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![]() Dining Out & Social Restaurants, cafes, and social dining per year | zł4.9k $1,200/yr |
![]() University Tuition Average PhD tuition per year | zł14.2k $3,500/yr |
![]() Transportation Public transport and local travel per year | zł972 $240/yr |
![]() Clothing Basic clothing and seasonal needs per year | zł2.4k $600/yr |
Estimates based on university averages and Numbeo
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University of Silesia
Poland
Computational Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Linguistics
Reading Comprehension
Psychologie
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Uniwersytet Wroclawski
Poland
Historical Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Comparative Linguistics
Linguistics
Language Contact
Head of the Department of Celtic Studies
John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin
Poland
Computational Linguistics
Psycholinguistics
Linguistics
Morphology
Functional Morphology
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University of Bielsko-Biala
Poland
Applied Linguistics
Computational Linguistics
Linguistics
Academic Purposes
Multilingual Studies
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Uniwersytet Łódzki
Poland
Historical Linguistics
Linguistic Anthropology
Linguistics
Etymology
Anthropology
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań
Poland
Computational Linguistics
Historical Linguistics
Linguistics
Polish Literature
Dialectology

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The France Excellence Eiffel Scholarship Program supports outstanding international students for Master's and PhD study in France in priority academic fields.

WGSSS ESRC DTP studentships fund social science PhD research, mainly at Welsh universities and partners, with tuition support, a living stipend and research training opportunities.
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