FAPESP Postgraduate Fellowship

University of Glasgow PhD opportunities are being advertised in the School of Social & Political Sciences, with a strong focus on sociology, urban studies, social policy, political ethnography, and place-based research. The post highlights two funded PhD positions connected to the ERC MORTALMED project on the social life of the pharmaceutical pentobarbital, and the linked University of Glasgow funding page also shows a PhD scholarship on civic feelings: emotional governance and the local . The c...

Two fully funded PhD scholarships are open at the Australian National University for the international project Cultures of the Cryosphere: Infrastructures, Politics and Futures of Artificial Cooling , supported by a European Research Council Synergy Grant. The project examines how artificial cooling is reshaping societies, environments, and futures through systems such as air conditioning, cryobanks, frozen supply chains, laboratories, and data centres. The two PhD projects are: 1) Air condition...

Call for applications for Dissertation Writing-up Fellowships at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Germany , hosted by the Law & Anthropology Department . This opportunity supports PhD candidates in the final stage of their doctorate to spend time at the Institute and focus on writing up their dissertation. The announcement gives priority to applicants pursuing doctoral studies in anthropology , especially projects closely related to the Department's research focus. Research ar...

University of Glasgow is advertising a fully funded PhD scholarship under the ERC MORTALMED research programme: “Lethal Prescriptions: Sodium Pentobarbital and Assisted Dying in Switzerland.” The project sits at the intersection of medical anthropology, sociology, ethnography, bioethics, law, and end-of-life care , and is designed for a student interested in qualitative research on assisted dying, pharmaceuticals, and the social worlds surrounding death and dying. The PhD will be supervised by D...

Fully funded PhD scholarship opportunity at the University of Glasgow for the ERC project MORTALMED (“Mortal Medicine: The Social Life of a Death-Inducing Pharmaceutical”). The project is centered on the social life of pentobarbital and its use in assisted dying, lethal injection, and animal euthanasia. This PhD is especially relevant for applicants interested in medical anthropology , sociology , ethnography , death studies , pharmaceuticals , and interdisciplinary qualitative research. The pro...