Postdoc Opportunities in Philosophy in Finland

The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Jyväskylä is recruiting two Postdoctoral Researchers in Applied Language Studies for a four-year fixed-term project starting 3 May 2027, or as soon as possible thereafter. The positions are part of the profiling action project “Language, Diversity, and Participation in Technology-Driven Society” (LADiTS) , hosted by the Centre for Applied Language Studies (CALS) and the Department of Language and Communication Studies . The LADiT...

The Faculty of Humanities at the University of Helsinki is recruiting a postdoctoral researcher to join the Multimodality Research Group in the Department of Languages. The position is part of an ERC-funded project led by Professor Tuomo Hiippala and focuses on developing novel methods and corpora for studying multimodality: how people communicate through combinations of multiple expressive modes. The project studies everyday cultural artefacts such as school textbooks, news broadcasts, diagrams...

The University of Oulu is recruiting a Postdoctoral Researcher for the General Education Research unit at the Faculty of Education and Psychology. The role sits within DATAVOID (From a Void to the Cloud? Data Centres in the Afterlives of Arctic Industries), an interdisciplinary research project examining how data centres emerge in post-industrial northern communities and how they relate to the legacies of earlier industries. The post is designed for a researcher who will develop a comparative st...

The University of Eastern Finland’s Philosophical Faculty invites applications for a full-time postdoctoral researcher position in the broad fields of humanities or theology. The two-year appointment is designed to support recent doctoral graduates pursuing an academic career and to help them develop an independent research profile. The researcher will advance their own research, develop new research questions and plans with a research group, produce high-quality scientific publications, seek ex...

Two postdoctoral researchers are sought for the Research Council of Finland-funded project “the Epistemic Significance of Concepts” at the University of Helsinki’s Theoretical Philosophy unit. The project is led by Academy Professor Maria Lasonen and is situated within a broader research environment in epistemology, logic, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, philosophy of science, and history of philosophy. The project investigates the epistemic role of concepts from a broad...

Two fixed-term postdoctoral researcher positions are available in the research project The Epistemic Significance of Concepts at Theoretical Philosophy, University of Helsinki. The project is led by Academy Professor Maria Lasonen and is funded by the Research Council of Finland. It runs alongside a complementary ERC-funded project on concepts, creating a broader research environment focused on the nature and epistemic role of concepts. The project takes a philosophically grounded but empiricall...

A fixed-term postdoctoral researcher position is available in the Philosophical Faculty of the University of Eastern Finland in the field of humanities or theology. The appointment is designed to support early postdoctoral development after the doctorate, with a strong emphasis on building a research profile that can lead to external funding and an independent academic career. The post is structured around a research plan with work packages and sub-goals, prepared together with a mentor and info...

The University of Oulu is seeking a Postdoctoral Researcher in Environmental Social Sciences and Digital Infrastructures to join the General Education Research Unit in the Faculty of Education and Psychology. The researcher will work on the Research Council of Finland-funded DATAVOID project, “From a Void to the Cloud? Data Centres in the Afterlives of Arctic Industries.” DATAVOID investigates how data centres emerging in post-industrial northern communities interact with the physical and social...

The University of Helsinki Faculty of Humanities is advertising a fixed-term Postdoctoral Researcher in Language Technology or Digital Humanities position in the Multimodality Research Group , Department of Languages. The project is funded by an ERC Consolidator Grant awarded to Professor Tuomo Hiippala and focuses on multimodal communication , including the study of how humans communicate through combinations of modes of expression. The research uses and develops large multimodal corpora drawn ...