PhD Opportunities in Sociology in Sweden

Linköping University is recruiting a doctoral student in Technology and Social Change to study how socio-technical systems evolve as biogas becomes valued for multiple, potentially competing functions beyond its established role as an energy technology. The PhD project will focus on the Swedish biogas sector and examine how multifunctionality shapes socio-technical configurations, policy and institutional relations, and governance processes. The research will explore how interests and values are...

The Department of Social Work at the University of Gothenburg is offering a doctoral position in social work within one of the Nordic region’s largest and most established research and education environments in the field. The department is part of the Faculty of Social Sciences and brings together research and education at undergraduate, advanced, and doctoral levels. Its research focuses on understanding people in vulnerable social situations, social interventions, social policy measures, and b...

University College of Gävle is offering a doctoral position in occupational health science within the Department of Occupational Health, Psychology and Sports Science. The doctoral student will be admitted to the research subject and degree-awarding area of Health-Promoting Working Life , with a research environment that also includes doctoral students in care science, industrial economics, and social work. The project, Generative AI in knowledge work: consequences for work environment, health a...

MINARET is recruiting 15 fully funded PhD researchers through an MSCA Doctoral Network coordinated by Lund University and involving 11 leading universities across Europe. The network examines the sociology of post-imperial Islamic legal cultures and the relationships between law, religion, governance, constitutionalism, democratisation and social change. Projects address Muslim-majority societies shaped by imperial legacies and contemporary political transformations, with a geographic focus span...

This doctoral position is part of the MINARET project at Lund University’s Sociology of Law Department, within the NORCA research environment. The project explores how civil Islam, legal mobilisation, and faith-based movements shape non-coercive governance and constitutional participation across post-imperial Islamic societies, with empirical focus on Tunisia, Indonesia, and Uzbekistan. The successful candidate will conduct an independent PhD project aligned with the broader MINARET research age...

The University of Gothenburg is offering a doctoral student position in Social Work focused on crime prevention within the strategic Building Resilience in Crime Prevention (BRiC) research programme. The doctoral researcher will develop and conduct an independent project examining crime prevention in social work within a Swedish context. The project must connect clearly with BRiC's interdisciplinary focus on child and youth vulnerability and involvement in crime, preventive and rehabilitative wo...

The doctoral position is based in the Active and Healthy Ageing research group at the Department of Health Sciences , Lund University . The group is part of the interdisciplinary Centre for Ageing and Supportive Environments (CASE) , where senior and junior researchers from several faculties work together in a collaborative and international environment. The PhD project is linked to the four-year research project PRO-COG , which examines what makes public environments accessible and usable for p...

This doctoral position is based in Theme Technology and Social Change at Linköping University, a research and teaching environment that brings together social-scientific, humanistic, and interdisciplinary perspectives on technology, science, medicine, and social change. The project examines how socio-technical systems change when biogas , previously mainly legitimized as an energy technology, is increasingly valued through multiple and potentially competing functions. The doctoral researcher wil...

This doctoral position is based at KTH Royal Institute of Technology within the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Science and Engineering (SEED). The project sits in the third-cycle subject Sustainability studies and focuses on wetland restoration as a nature-based solution for sustainable water supply under changing climate conditions. The doctoral student will work on developing policy- and valuation-oriented frameworks that connect wetland indicators with societal benefits ...