Fully Funded Leiden University Scholarships & PhD Positions 2026–2027: 5+ Open Programmes

Lecturer-PhD Candidate German Language and Culture (Docent-promovendus) - Leiden University, Netherlands

Leiden University · Netherlands

Leiden University advertises a combined lecturer-PhD candidate (docent-promovendus) position in German language and culture. The appointment runs for five years and combines 75 percent doctoral research with 25 percent teaching within the German language and culture programme of Leiden's Faculty of Humanities. Applicants can apply without IELTS - selection is based on documents and an English interview, not a test certificate.

PhD Candidate: Dutch Morphology and Constructicography - Leiden University, Netherlands

Leiden University · Netherlands

Leiden University's Centre for Linguistics invites applications for a PhD candidate working on Dutch morphology and constructicography. The project develops computational descriptions of Dutch word formation and construction patterns, contributing to digital language resources that connect morphological analysis with construction-based lexicography.

PhD Candidate 'Entangled with Seaweed' - Case Studies in Scotland (NWO Open Competition) - Leiden University, Netherlands

Leiden University · Netherlands

Leiden University advertises a PhD candidate position in the research project 'Entangled with Seaweed', working on case studies in Scotland. The project, funded through the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO Open Competition), takes an ethnographic approach to the emerging seaweed economy: how coastal communities, industries and regulators in Scotland negotiate the cultivation, harvesting and governance of seaweed, and what this reveals about changing relations between marine resources, livelihoods and environmental policy.

PhD Candidate 'Entangled with Seaweed' - Case Studies in South Africa (NWO Open Competition) - Leiden University, Netherlands

Leiden University · Netherlands

Leiden University advertises a PhD candidate position in the research project 'Entangled with Seaweed', working on case studies in South Africa. Within the NWO Open Competition-funded programme, this line of the project studies the South African seaweed sector ethnographically: the people whose livelihoods depend on seaweed harvesting and farming, the regulatory landscape governing marine resource access, and the social and ecological entanglements that shape how the seaweed economy develops.

Post-doctoral Researcher: Agent-Based Modelling of Pleistocene Landscape Connectivity in Europe - Leiden University, Netherlands

Leiden University · Netherlands

Leiden University invites applications for a post-doctoral researcher working on agent-based modelling of Pleistocene landscape connectivity in Europe. The project simulates how Pleistocene environments connected and disconnected habitats and populations across the continent, informing debate in palaeoanthropology, archaeology and palaeoclimate research.