PhD Positions

Are you interested in joining an interdisciplinary team of migration researchers to study entrepreneurship programs for refugees and their effects on refugee livelihoods in the Global South? Passionate about ethnographic research? Self-motivated and ready to learn new research skills? 

Radboud University is offering a PhD position within the project Leven Lang in Ontwikkeling voor mensen met een migratieachtergrond (MILLION).

Are you a (nearly) graduated law student and do you want to start your university career as a passionate, enthusiastic PhD student? Then we have the job you are looking for.

The ERC Starting Grant project GIVE RIGHTS is currently recruiting a PhD student. Deadline for application is 18 January 2026. 

The Marie Sklodowska-Curie Doctoral Network (MSCA-DN) “Entanglements of Migration and Time in Post-Industrial Urban Europe (MITIME)” is seeking applications from motivated doctoral researchers to join its PhD training programme.

There is an open PhD position at Leuphana University Lüneburg in the research area “Climate Futures in Digital Migration and Border Control” as part of the larger “Embracing Transformation” PhD and scholarship programme, consisting of 8 research projects in the context of climate futures and digital cultures at the school of culture and society, and in total 36 PhD students across our faculties. 

The Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at KU Leuven University is a vibrant community of 8 lecturers, 12 postdoctoral scholars, and 40 PhD students. 

This doctoral project explores the links between African migration, genetics, and public health, by focusing on chronic kidney disease (CKD), a major and growing global health burden. 

Ghent University is hiring 7 PhD researchers in anthropology, social work/educational sciences, linguistics, interpreting and law. 

The Interuniversity Center for Social Science Theory and Methodology (ICS) offers fully funded PhD positions in the Netherlands for a variety of innovative and fascinating research projects.