PhD Positions

Marie Skłodowska-Curie PhD positions at CISRUL 

The University of Aberdeen, in collaboration with the Horizon 2020 Marie Sklodowska-Curie programme, is delighted to offer six Early Stage Researcher positions, lasting 3 years starting in September 2019, for ground-breaking research on how political concepts are used in the world. For further information, see https://cisrul.blog/funding/politico/ 

The Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Department of Planning and Governance, Mbarara University of Science and Technology (MUST), Uganda and the Institute of Development Policy (IOB), University of Antwerp, Belgium, invite applications for a four-year, full-time position as Doctoral Researcher. 

The Institute of Development Policy (IOB, University Antwerp, Belgium) is opening a PhD position to be supervised from September 2019. The position should lead to a PhD in Development Studies but joint or double PhDs degrees (e.g. in economics, political sciences, …) are possible. 

The University of Vienna, Research Group IN:EX – The politics of Inclusion and Exclusion, in collaboration with Eurac Research invites applications for a PhD Position on Political Parties and Immigration.

The candidate for the PhD position should develop a research proposal for one of the following two research lines of the Migration, Diversity and Justice research cluster of the Institute for European Studies 

The research project in which the new doctoral student will be embedded focuses on how climate-related disasters affect short-term and long-term migration decisions of individuals and households.

The Center for Demographic Research (DEMO) at the Université Catholique de Louvain (UCLouvain) belongs to the Institute for the Analysis of Change in Contemporary and Historical Societies (IACCHOS). DEMO, funded in 1963, is a vibrant medium-size (~ 40 researchers) research group that gathers population researchers from all over the world.

Utrecht University’s Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences is looking for a PhD candidate on the project ‘Movement(s) along the Balkan Route’. Interested? Read more and apply here. 

Role Description 
Job Title: Post- Doctoral Researcher in Social Sciences 
Faculty: Faculty of Interdisciplinary Studies, Mbarara University of Science and Technology 
Remuneration:£32,931.40 / UGX 162,380,903.20 Per Annum 
£2,744.28 / UGX 13,531,741.93 Per Month 
Category: Research 
Type: Fixed term (27 months), June 2019 – September 2021 

Research topic 

Migration patterns vary substantially across regions and countries, and flows have changed considerably over time.