Are you holding Master’s degree and looking for fully funded PhD positions? Umeå University, Sweden invites online application for multiple funded PhD Programs / fully funded PhD positions in various research areas.
Candidates interested in fully funded PhD positions can check the details and may apply as soon as possible. Interested and eligible applicants may submit their online application for PhD programs via the University’s Online Application Portal.
1. Fully Funded PhD Position in Education with a focus on Didactics in Vocational Education
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group focus on various types of teaching and learning processes. Fundamental didactic questions – what, why, how, when, for whom and by whom – in relation to teaching (both past and present) are central. Research within the group includes curriculum studies, social studies didactics, educational history, studies on grading and assessment, on minority schooling, and on teacher-student-subject interaction. The group combines research, education and collaboration of relevance for the teaching professions and for teacher education.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
2. 13 Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational Sciences
Summary of PhD Program:
The Postgraduate School in Educational Sciences offers a coherent environment for doctoral education in the field of educational sciences at Umeå University. You will combine your doctoral education at a department with being part of a dynamic, interdisciplinary doctoral student group and have access to national and international research networks. As a doctoral student in the graduate school, you will contribute to the development of knowledge in the field, for the benefit of researchers as well as teachers and other educational professions.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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3. Fully Funded PhD Position in Nursing
Summary of PhD Program:
The ongoing societal transformation and large green investments in northern Sweden create enormous opportunities and complex challenges. For Umeå University, conducting research about – and in the middle of – a society in transition is key. We also take pride in delivering education to enable regions to expand quickly and sustainably.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
4. Fully Funded PhD Position in Education
Summary of PhD Program:
The research group’s overarching objective is to investigate: (i) the nature of practices unfolding in ILEs (ii) teachers’ perceptions of educational change and its impact on established practice and how it challenges previous traditions of organising schools, and (iii) the evolution of the concept of student-centered learning over time. The research group employs a diverse methodology, incorporating qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods. Data for the project is gathered through classroom observations, interviews, and questionnaires. The Ph.D. student will initially engage with existing data and subsequently focus on students’ performance within ILEs.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
5. Fully Funded PhD Position in Language teaching and learning
Summary of PhD Program:
As a doctoral student, you formulate your own research plan in Language teaching and learning and independently develop your dissertation project in consultation with your supervisors. Your supervisors are assigned based on the project’s focus. You will have continuous supervision and follow-ups with your supervisors as well as with the Director of Research Studies. You will be a part of the department’s research environment where you are expected to contribute through active participation in seminars, research networks, academic gatherings and conferences. You will also take part in other meetings and gatherings at the department, such as workplace meetings and staff days.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
6. Fully Funded PhD Position in Educational work
Summary of PhD Program:
The research discipline Educational work is focused on a didactic scientific basis and on teachers professional knowledge. At the department of Language studies, the research discipline is focused on research around language and learning. You will find more information about the doctoral studies and our supervisors´ areas of expertise here. This doctoral position is a collaboration with Umeå School of Education and is part of the Postgraduate school in the educational sciences.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
7. Fully Funded PhD Position in Science or Technology/ Engineering Education
Summary of PhD Program:
As a doctoral student you will be part of the Umeå Science Education Research environment (UmSER). In UmSER, research is conducted within science, sustainability, and technology/engineering education with participants from several departments at Umeå University. Our research interest can be described from two perspectives – the learning situation and the learner. Hence, the research focusses on instructional practices, subject content, learning context, gender and identity, emotions, and motivation, and their relationship with students’ learning. The research involves students and teachers at all levels, from preschool to university.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
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8. Fully Funded PhD Position in History and Education
Summary of PhD Program:
The doctoral position is open for applicants with research proposals in educational history and/or history didactics. This doctoral position is advertised in collaboration with the Umeå School of Education and is a part of the Postgraduate School in the Educational Sciences. Core parts of the doctoral programme are delivered in English, but the working language of the department and the research group is mainly Swedish.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-29
9. Fully Funded PhD Position in Archaeology with a focus on Arctic & Sub-Arctic Wetlands
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies conducts teaching and research in Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Philosophy, History, History and Education, History of Science and Ideas, Religious Studies and Theology. Third-cycle (doctoral) level studies in archaeology at Umeå are undertaken under two broad themes: (a) archaeology and (b) archaeology specialising in environmental archaeology. Applications are welcome under either of these themes, as long as there is a clear and demonstrable connection to Arctic and/or Sub-Arctic Wetlands and some aspect of sustainable development.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-10
10. Fully Funded PhD Position in History of Science and Ideas
Summary of PhD Program:
The Department of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies conducts teaching and research in Archaeology, Environmental Archaeology, Philosophy, History, History and Education, History of Science and Ideas, Religious Studies and Theology. Courses and degrees in History of Science and Ideas are offered at basic, advanced and doctoral levels. Over the years, the discipline has developed excellent research on several thematic topics, such as history of everyday life and social movements; history of science and technology; environmental history; forest history; history of medicine and health; history of religious thought; media history; and gender history. History of Science and Ideas in Umeå is a dynamic discipline that strives to foster cooperation beyond established knowledge and disciplinary boundaries.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-10
11. Fully Funded PhD Position in Linguistics
Summary of PhD Program:
The research discipline Linguistics is focused on studies of a general nature as well as on specific language areas. The research proposal should connect to one of the department´s subjects and our supervisors´ areas of expertise. In the project application you should demonstrate how your project is connected to the department’s research and supervisors.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-10
12. Fully Funded PhD Position in Media and Communication Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
Media and Communications Studies is an interdisciplinary field that deals with mediated communication in all its forms in traditional, as well as digital and social media. Our forms of communication are today in rapid change, due to a radically altered media landscape and the ongoing digitization of society and culture. These changes also alter perspectives on media history. At the department, around 20 researchers, teachers and doctoral students in Media and Communication Studies work with different types of research projects in areas such as Media History, Digital Media, Environmental, Journalism and Strategic Communication. The research is extensive and varied and holds many different theoretical perspectives and empirical fields.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-10
13. Fully Funded PhD Position in Sami
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a doctoral student in Sami, within one of the fields of literature, linguistics or educational science. A succesful candidate with a specialization in literature or educational studies will follow the study plan for Sami Studies. Similarly, a candidate with a focus on linguistics will follow the study plan for linguistics. We particularly welcome research proposals connected to our supervisors´ areas of expertise.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-10
14. Fully Funded PhD Position in Religious Studies
Summary of PhD Program:
The graduate program in Religious Studies has two specializations: socio-religious studies and historical-systematic theology. Students specializing in socio-religious studies study religious beliefs, ideas, behavior, collectives, and organizations in cultural and social life, drawing inspiration from the arsenal of theories and methods from social sciences. Students specializing in historical-systematic theology study historical and modern religious ideas and practices using historical, hermeneutic, philosophical, and theological theories and methods, with the emphasis on Christian traditions.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-10
15. Fully Funded PhD Position in History
Summary of PhD Program:
Doctoral students write their research plan and conduct their thesis project independently in consultation with their supervisors, who are assigned given the project’s scientific focus. Supervision and guidance occur continuously with both the supervisors and the director of doctoral studies. Doctoral students are central to the department’s research environment and are expected to engage in it through participation in activities such as seminars, research networks and scientific conferences, as well as in subject meetings, workplace meetings and staff days at the department.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-10
16. Fully Funded PhD Position in Philosophy
Summary of PhD Program:
The department offers courses and awards degrees in philosophy at the undergraduate (first-cycle), advanced (second-cycle), and graduate (third-cycle) level. There are 15 permanently employed faculty members in the subject. The research activity is high and research is pursued over a broad range of philosophical areas, including aesthetics, applied ethics, epistemology, history of philosophy, metaethics, metaphysics, normative ethics, philosophy of artificial intelligence, philosophy of language, philosophy of mind, philosophy of science, and political philosophy. A research seminar for the whole subject typically meets weekly during semesters.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-10
17. Fully Funded PhD Position in Archaeology
Summary of PhD Program:
Within studies in archaeology at third-cycle level, there are two specialisations: (a) archaeology and (b) archaeology specialising in environmental archaeology. We welcome applicants with interests in any area of archaeology that complements our current range of staff specialisms. In particular the department is interested in developing research on human–landscape interactions and archaeology concerning landscapes or wetlands. We are of course also interested in continuing our existing themes in the archaeology of northern latitudes and the circumpolar regions.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-10
18. Fully Funded PhD Position in Literature
Summary of PhD Program:
Within the subject Literature, researchers at the department work within several languages and with a large number of genres and forms from different time periods. We usually work on individually designed projects but often share theoretical approaches or methodological starting points. You can read more about supervisors’ research interests here but note that your project does not need to be closely connected to research already carried out at the department. Instead, as a doctoral student you formulate your own research plan and develop your research project in consultation with your supervisors who contribute broadly with knowledge about theory, method, and academic craft.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-10
19. Fully Funded PhD Position in medical science
Summary of PhD Program:
Radiotherapy plays a critical role in the fight against cancer and is used in about half of all cancer cases. Its aim is to precisely target radiation to cancer cells, while trying to minimise damage to surrounding tissues and organs at risk as much as possible. Today’s radiotherapy presents several challenges, most of which relate to how treatment can be tailored to each individual patient. A key part of this is to accurately segment tumours and risk areas in images of the patient. Recently, artificial intelligence-based tools have revolutionised this traditionally time-consuming task by offering automated segmentation.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-01
20. Fully Funded PhD Position in computational science
Summary of PhD Program:
We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Ph.D. student in computational science to join our research team. In recent years, the life sciences have experienced an explosion of data from a variety of sources, including genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, and imaging technologies. While statistical and machine-learning approaches have been widely used to extract valuable insights from this data, they can only provide correlations between critical variables, not cause-and-effect relationships. To make reliable predictions, we need such relationships. As a result, there is an increasing need for mechanistic models that can integrate diverse data sets and provide a deeper understanding of biological processes.
Application Deadline: 2024-03-01
21. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Science with orientation towards Molecular Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The project investigates the role of bacterial secreted effector molecules in host pathogenesis and their potential use as cancer therapeutics. It involves work with mammalian cell cultures, human intestinal organoids, and Acanthamoeba castellanii as a model organism. We will use bacterial genetics, high-throughput image screening, biophysical/biochemical methods, and advanced microscopy techniques. A person who is employed as a PhD student shall primarily devote his-/or herself to his/her own education. The project and research environment will give the dedicated student the opportunity to train as a first-class researcher.
Application Deadline: 2024-02-27
22. Fully Funded PhD Position in Chemistry, with a specialization in organic chemistry
Summary of PhD Program:
Development of compounds that can affect biological systems is a slow and expensive process in many steps. One has to find compounds with desired effect and preferably also identify target proteins. In the research group we try to develop methods to improve this process, e.g. by simplifying the identification of the target of new bioactive compounds. The PhD-project will initially involve synthesis development to efficiently prepare compounds with possible biological effects. Later, the project might also involve development of methods to examine the biological effect of these compounds on a molecular level by mass spectroscopy.
Application Deadline: 2024-02-26
23. Fully Funded PhD Position in Medical Science with orientation towards Cognitive Neuroscience
Summary of PhD Program:
We are looking for a PhD student in Medical Science with an orientation towards Cognitive Neuroscience. The position is at the Department of Medical and Translational Biology at Umeå University and is temporary for four years to start during April 1st 2024 or as agreed. The PhD student will participate in activities provided by the Department of Medical and Translational Biology, thus providing interaction with researchers from different research fields and access to various scientific and technical expertise
Application Deadline: 2024-02-25
24. Fully Funded PhD Position in Molecular Biology
Summary of PhD Program:
The PhD student’s project will use experimental evolution to investigate the predictability of evolution on the phenotypic level and at the levels of molecular networks, genes and mutations through a combination of experimental methods, bioinformatics and mathematical modelling. Evolution of antibiotic resistance in Pseudomonas aeruginosa will be used as a model system. A person who is employed as a PhD student shall primarily devote his-/or herself to his/her own education. The project and research environment will give the dedicated student the opportunity to train as a first-class researcher.
Application Deadline: 2024-02-23
25. Fully Funded PhD Position in Computing Science with focus on Cybersecurity
Summary of PhD Program:
The multilayer cloud-edge continuum poses several challenges, such as smart placement, workload prediction and relocation, energy usage prediction, and security for critical applications and infrastructures. Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) is one of the critical threats that disrupt the benign services provided by servers based on distributed resources across the Continuum. The key security challenges faced by existing methods, particularly when it comes to DDoS attacks and defence strategies for the cloud-edge continuum. Challenges include unlimited reassignment of resources for microservices under attack, slow reaction time, lack of methods for validation in real environments, and weak kernel architecture in virtualised instances.
