Fully Funded PhD in Anthropological Linguistics and Descriptive Linguistics at Leiden University Leiden University in Netherlands

Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) at Leiden University is offering a fully funded PhD position in Anthropological Linguistics / Descriptive Linguistics as part of the NWO Vidi project Grammars of Space and Time: Language, Culture and Cognition in Ethiopia’s Omo Valley . The project explores how language, culture, and environment shape the conceptualization of space and time in communities in southwestern Ethiopia. The PhD project focuses on Aari , an Omotic language spoken in south...

PhD Position: Navigating Labour and Housing Precarity in Amsterdam at the University of Amsterdam , Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences. This PhD project examines how labour migrants in Amsterdam experience, navigate, and resist precarious living conditions at the intersection of labour and housing. The project is embedded in the Urban Geographies programme group, within the Department of Geography, Planning and International Development Studies and the Amsterdam Institute for Social Scie...

Fully funded PhD opportunity at the University of Amsterdam in the Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences for a project titled Urban Utopias and Urban Policy in Amsterdam . The position is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and focuses on urban policy , urban studies , housing , sociology , anthropology , and qualitative research . The project examines how grassroots and community-led housing initiatives in Amsterdam are creating fairer, more sustainable, and more inclusive alternatives to pro...

PhD opportunity at the University of Amsterdam on labour and housing precarity in Amsterdam, within the Urban Impact Lab of the Amsterdam Institute for Social Science Research (AISSR) . The project examines how labour migrants in Amsterdam experience, navigate, and resist precarious living conditions at the intersection of labour and housing. The position is supervised/announced by Emil van Eck (Assistant Professor, University of Amsterdam) together with Fenne Pinkster . The vacancy sits in the ...

Radboud University is offering a fully funded PhD position in the Department of Anthropology and Development Studies, embedded in the Radboud Social Cultural Research Institute at the Faculty of Social Sciences in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. The project starts in November 2026 and focuses on ecological violence, gender, decolonial ecologies, and care in Latin America and/or the Caribbean. The successful candidate will develop an independent PhD research project on how violence against nature is a...