PhD Positions

EuroMedMig Marie-Curie PhD Network has opened its call for 12 PhD students in 10 Mediterranean Universities and the deadline to apply is 28 February 2025. 

The Centre for Migration Law is seeking a talented and highly motivated PhD candidate for the project Migrants, Law and the State: Transnational formations of legal consciousness between Poland, Ukraine and the Netherlands.

Are you interested in joining an interdisciplinary team to study transnational mobilities and wellbeing in Asia? Passionate about ethnographic research? Self-motivated and ready to learn new research skills? 

The Department of European Law at the Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, has a vacancy for two full time doctoral researchers (1.0 FTE) for the duration of 4 years.

Utrecht University invites applications for two PhD research positions at the Faculty of Geosciences that will investigate transnational retirement mobilities as part of the of the ERC-funded project ‘Retirement across countries: A tripartite analysis of the welfare state, family care networks, and the retirement industry (RETIREWEL).’ 

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.