PhD programmes

This entry includes PhD programmes in humanities and social sciences that may be of interest for those looking for a PhD position in archaeology. Generally, positions on these programmes are advertised once (or twice) a year and require a research project proposal. As a consequence, closing dates are not as tight as PhD positions on specified topics. In addition to PhD programmes, open calls for application to PhD positions in humanities and social sciences that require a research project proposal are also listed here.

Closing date not specified (ordered by post date)

[posted 2 November 2023]
Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-east England (CHASE) [Universities of East Anglia, Essex, Kent and Sussex, the Open University, The Courtauld Institute of Art, Goldsmiths, University of London, Birkbeck, University of London and SOAS, University of London]
Arts & Humanities Studentships
primary: https://www.chase.ac.uk/
Closing date: not specified (posted October 2023?)

including

University of Kent
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDV622/fully-funded-chase-arts-and-humanities-studentships
deadline (expressions of interest): 3 December 2023

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[posted 2 August 2023]
Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership [Royal Holloway, University of London | Brunel University, London | Kingston University | Loughborough University, London | University of Brighton |  University of Roehampton | University of the Arts London | University of Surrey | University of Westminster]
Techne Studentships 2024
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DBQ814/techne-studentships-2024
primary: https://www.techne.ac.uk/
Closing date: not specified (posted 2 August 2023)

including

Loughborough University London (LUL)
‘Colonial Coral: Design for Decolonising More-than-Human Worlds in the Natural History Museum’
Fully Funded Techne Studentship in Design and Innovation
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEU214/fully-funded-techne-studentship-in-design-and-innovation
deadline: 29 January 2024

Brunel University London
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DDI463/ahrc-funded-studentships-in-college-of-business-arts-and-social-sciences-via-the-techne2-doctoral-training-partnership
deadline (expressions of interest): 18 December 2023

University of Roehampton
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DCZ656/techne-ahrc-phd-studentships
deadline (expressions of interest): 11 December 2023

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[posted 8 September 2021]
University of Haifa
Haifa Center for Mediterranean History (HCMH)
Visiting PhD Scholarship
https://oxfordbyzantinesociety.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/the-byzness-30th-august-2021/
primary: https://hcmh.haifa.ac.il/2017/02/21/phd-scholarships/
Closing date: upon submission

ANNOUNCEMENT [posted 21 October 2020]
McMaster University
PhD program in Biological Anthropology
It is anticipated the Shelley Saunders/Koloshuk Family Scholarship will be available again in 2021
https://www.physanth.org/news/2771/
Closing date: not specified (posted 14 October 2020)

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Closing date (in descending order)

NEXT [re-posted 1 April 2024]
Fondazione Lemmermann
Lemmermann Foundation Fellowship for study in Rome
to master’s students and doctoral candidates in order to support their cost of research in the classical studies and humanities. Topic of research must be related to Rome and the Roman culture of any period, from the Pre-Roman period to the present day time.
primary: https://lemmermann-foundation.org/
Closing date (annual): 31 March 2025?

NEXT [re-posted 16 February 2024]
The American Center for Oriental Research (ACOR)
ACOR FELLOWSHIPS
primary: https://acorjordan.org/fellowships-2/
Closing date: February 2025? (annual)

NEXT [re-posted 2 February 2024]
Mary Jaharis Center for Byzantine Art and Culture
Grants
primary: https://maryjahariscenter.org/grants
Closing date: 1 February 2025? (annual)

NEXT [re-posted 1 February 2024]
European University Institute
Ph.D. Scholarships
in: Economics; History and Civilization; Law; Political and Social Sciences
primary: https://www.eui.eu/ServicesAndAdmin/AcademicService/DoctoralProgramme
Closing date: 31 January 2025? (annual)

NEXT [posted 16 January 2024]
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
Fellowships
primary: https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/fellowships-and-grants
Closing date (annual): 15 January 2025?

NEXT [re-posted 7 November 2023]
School for Advanced Research (SAR)
Resident Scholar Fellowships
from the perspective of anthropology or from related fields such as history, sociology, art, and philosophy
primary: https://sarweb.org/scholars/resident/
Closing date: early November 2024 (annual = first Monday of November)

NEXT [re-posted 1 November 2023]
Ecole française d’Athènes
Bourses = Research Fellowships
Les candidats doivent être inscrits en Doctorat et poursuivre des recherches nécessitant un séjour en Grèce et se rapportant à l’un des domaines suivants : préhistoire et protohistoire égéenne ; monde hellénique antique, monde hellénique et éventuellement balkanique, médiéval, moderne et contemporain. = Candidates must be enrolled in doctoral studies and be carrying out research that requires them to spend time in Greece, and which is related to one of the following fields: Aegean prehistory and protohistory, the ancient Greek world, and in some cases the Balkan, medieval, modern and contemporary Greek world.
primary: http://www.efa.gr/index.php/fr/formation-a-la-recherche/bourses = https://www.efa.gr/index.php/en/formation-a-la-recherche/bourses/dossier-de-candidature
Closing date: 31 October 2024? (annual)

NEXT [re-posted 16 March 2024]
Aarhus University
PhD scholarships/fellowships
http://phd.arts.au.dk/applicants/open-and-specific-calls/
Closing date: 1 October 2024 (next closing date: 15 March 2025)

[posted 12 April 2024]
Swansea University
Swansea University International Postgraduate Research Excellence Scholarship (SUIPRES)
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHB257/swansea-university-international-postgraduate-research-excellence-scholarships-2024
primary: https://www.swansea.ac.uk/postgraduate/scholarships/research/suipres-2024.php?utm_source=jobsacuk&utm_medium=scholarship&utm_campaign=postgraduate24&utm_content=pgr
Closing date: 15 July 2024

NEXT [re-posted 2 April 2024]
Deutsches Archäologisches Institut
Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik (München)
Doktorandenstipendien / Doctoral Scholarships [granted by Elise und Annemarie Jacobi-Stiftung & Gerda Henkel Foundation]
for international PhD students
https://www.gerda-henkel-stiftung.de/en/fellowships-eng
Closing date: 1 July 2024 (next closing dates: 1 October 2024, 1 January 2025, 1 April 2025)

[posted 1 April 2024]
Universidade de Lisboa (ULisboa), Universidade do Porto (UPorto) & Universidade de Coimbra (UCoimbra)
PRISC – Portuguese Research Infrastructure of Scientific Collections
através em colaboração com a Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), através do seu Museu Nacional (MN)
10 (dez) Bolsas de Investigação para Doutoramento
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/211261
Closing date: 31 May 2024

[posted 26 March 2024]
Côa Parque – Foundation for the Safeguarding and Development of the Côa Valley
PhD Studentships
in the following scientific areas: Environment and Global Change; Environment, Territory and Population; Cultures and Cultural Production; Study of the Human Past; Agriculture and Forestry Sciences; Geosciences; Biological Sciences; Institutions, Values, Beliefs and Behaviour
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/210311
Closing date: 31 May 2024

[posted 14 April 2024]
University of Amsterdam
Four PhD Positions in AI, Digital Humanities, and Cultural Heritage
https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Four-PhD-Positions-in-AI%2C-Digital-Humanities%2C-and-Cultural-Heritage/792167502/
Closing date: 15 May 2024

[posted 9 April 2024]
University of East Anglia & National Maritime Museum (NMM)
PhD Studentship: “‘Disability’ and Stuart Seafarers, 1600-1750”
https://www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DHA920/phd-studentship-disability-and-stuart-seafarers-1600-1750-jowitt_24hisahrc
primary: https://www.uea.ac.uk/course/phd-doctorate/phd-disability-and-stuart-seafarers-1600-1750-jowitt24hisahrc
Closing date: 9 May 2024

[posted 24 March 2024]
Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena
Graduiertenkolleg “Autonomie heteronomer Texte in Antike und Mittelalter”
Faculties of Law, Philosophy and Theology
12 Doctoral Research Positions
The Research Training Group investigates texts from Antiquity and the Middle Ages such as commentaries, paraphrases, compendia, lexica, chronicles, collections, retold novels, and more. Since these and similar texts consciously depend on other texts, we call them ”heteronomous” texts.
https://www.mommsen-gesellschaft.de/stellenangebote/2527-12-stellen-zur-promotion-als-wissenschaftliche-r-mitarbeiter-in-in-einem-altertumswissenschaftlichen-oder-mediaevistischen-fach-der-philosophischen-rechtswissenschaftlichen-oder-theologischen-fakultaet
primary: https://www.heteronome-texte.de/en/news/stellenausschreibung-12-promotionsstellen/
Closing date: 7 May 2024

[posted 24 March 2024]
Ministère de l’enseignement supérieur, de la recherche (MESR) et le Réseau des Écoles françaises à l’étranger (EFE)
quatre contrats doctoraux 2024-2027
ouverts, portés par l’École française d’Athènes, l’École française de Rome, l’Institut français d’Archéologie orientale du Caire et la Casa de Velázquez (École des hautes études hispaniques et ibériques).
https://www.mommsen-gesellschaft.de/stellenangebote/2519-appel-a-candidatures-pour-quatre-contrats-doctoraux-2024-2027
primary: https://www.resefe.fr/fr/node/6381
Closing date: 5 May 2024

[posted 1 April 2024]
University of Innsbruck
University Assistant (PhD position)
Medieval history / im Bereich Geschichte des Mittelalters und/oder der Historische Hilfswissenschaften
https://euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/206428
primary: https://lfuonline.uibk.ac.at/public/karriereportal.details?asg_id_in=14154
Closing date: 30 April 2024

NEXT [re-posted 22 March 2024]
ARTES: Iberian & Latin American Visual Culture Group
1) Artes Coll & Cortés Travel Scholarships
working on any aspect of Spanish, Portuguese or Latin American visual culture before 1800
https://artes-uk.org/2014/01/01/artes-coll-cortes-travel-scholarships/
2) ARTES Coll & Cortés PhD Scholarships for students at a UK University
on any aspect of Spanish, Portuguese or Latin American visual culture before 1800
https://artes-uk.org/2014/01/01/artes-coll-cortes-phd-scholarships/
3) ARTES Coll & Cortés Scholarships for PhD or post-doc students in Spain, Portugal or Latin America
working on any aspect of Spanish, Portuguese or Latin American visual culture before 1800
https://artes-uk.org/2014/01/01/artes-coll-cortes-scholarships-for-phd-or-post-doc-students-in-spain-portugal-or-latin-america/
Closing date: 30 April 2024 (annual)

[posted 4 February 2024]
Khalifa University
Department of Earth Sciences
Fully Funded PhD Scholarships
including “Detection of buried archeological objects in the UAE”
https://www.earthworks-jobs.com/marine/khalifa24011
Closing date: 30 April 2024

NEXT [re-posted 2 September 2023]
Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies
Study places (without funding)
winter and summer admissions for all five doctoral programs
in a field of ancient studies or a closely related discipline, e.g. prehistory, classical or Near Eastern archaeology, Egyptology, ancient Near Eastern studies, physical geography, ancient history, medieval history, religious studies, philosophy and the history of knowledge, theology, art history, classics, Byzantine studies, Iranian studies.
primary: https://www.berliner-antike-kolleg.org/en/bergsas/ausschreibungen/index.html
Closing date: 30 April 2024 (next deadline: 30 September 2024)

[posted 10 March 2024]
University of Plymouth
6 Fully Funded Collaborative Doctoral Awards (CDAs)
primary: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/postgraduate-research-studentships/collaborative-doctoral-awards
including “Materialities of colonisation and Empire in the Cottonian Collection and its associated contemporary curatorial practices”
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/wa-jisc.exe?A2=CONTEMP-HIST-ARCH;21e135a.2403
primary: https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/study/research-degrees/postgraduate-research-studentships/collaborative-doctoral-awards/materialities-of-colonisation-and-empire-in-the-cottonian-collection-and-its-associated-contemporary-curatorial-practices
Closing date: 25 April 2024

Archives:

https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2019/01/01/phd-programmes-archives-2020/ [2020-2024]

https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2018/01/01/phd-programmes-archives-2019/

https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2017/01/02/phd-programmes-archives-2018/

https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2016/01/10/phd-programmes-archives-2017/

https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2015/01/03/phd-programmes-archives-2016/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2014/01/01/phd-programmes-archives-2015/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2013/12/01/phd-programmes-archives-2014/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2012/12/04/phd-programmes-archives-2013/
https://archpostgrad.wordpress.com/2011/08/01/phd-programmes-archives/ [2011-2012]

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Open until filled (ordered by review date)