PhD Opportunities in International Relations in Portugal

The doctoral project is part of the interdisciplinary AcrioFarm research on overdoses, within the CNRS PRIME team directed by Marie Jauffret-Roustide . It focuses on the experience of opioids among users, with particular attention to access to care and harm reduction in a context marked by the spread of synthetic opioids and rising overdose rates. The thesis will examine users’ preferences for natural and synthetic opioids, their experiences of treatment and harm reduction services, and the prev...

The Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning at the University of California, Berkeley provides advanced training in urban and planning theory, research, and the practice of planning. Established in 1968, the program has educated doctoral researchers who have gone on to work as planning educators, social science researchers and theorists, policymakers, and practitioners. The Department of City & Regional Planning studies how cities, infrastructure, and public services can become more sustainable, aff...

The University of California, Berkeley offers a research-focused Business Administration PhD through the Berkeley Haas PhD Program. The program provides advanced doctoral training across six fields: Accounting, Business and Public Policy, Finance, Marketing, Management of Organizations, and Real Estate. Students choose a field when applying, and that choice shapes their coursework and future academic specialization. Marketing includes Consumer Behavior and Quantitative tracks, while Management o...

The Galway Doctoral Research Scholarship at the University of Galway supports full-time doctoral research within the College of Arts, Social Sciences, and Celtic Studies . It is designed for students whose projects sit in the arts, social sciences, or Celtic studies, with examples in the advert including history, geography, archaeology, English, music, philosophy, psychology, sociology, classics, and modern languages such as French, German, Italian, or Spanish. The scholarship is intended for a ...

The Denis Phelan Scholarship is a doctoral research award from the National University of Ireland, funded by Phelan Conan Ltd. in memory of Denis Phelan. It supports one year of PhD research with a cash award of €1,330. This scholarship is linked directly to the NUI Travelling Doctoral Studentships competition, so eligible applicants are considered automatically when they apply for that competition. The award is open across a broad range of research areas, spanning the humanities, social science...

The Department of Economics at the University of Oslo invites applications for three to five PhD Research Fellow positions within its doctoral programme in economics. Fellows are automatically admitted to the Faculty of Social Sciences’ PhD programme and receive organized research training while developing their own research from the outset. The programme prepares economists for academic careers and research positions in policy institutions, central banks and research organizations, while also s...

KU Leuven is recruiting a doctoral researcher for COMPASS (Conflict Onset Monitoring through Predictive Analysis of Societal Stress) , an interdisciplinary project developing an early warning system for monitoring, understanding and predicting societal trajectories, including conflict escalation and de-escalation. The researcher will be based at the Centre for Research on Peace and Development (CRPD) within the Faculty of Social Sciences and will collaborate closely with the Augment research gro...

This PhD project is hosted by the Department of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU) and is linked to the doctoral subject Landscape Architecture. The research focuses on governance and organizational adaptation in relation to the operation and maintenance of urban drainage infrastructure. The project addresses a major sustainability challenge: stormwater transports pollutants from urban areas into receiving waters, creating pre...

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...