15 PhD positions available

HEALENAE invites applications for 15 fully funded PhD positions within the field of Anthropology. All positions will start on September 1st, 2026.

Deadline for application: All deadlines have been extended! Please check the deadline of the individual projects. Recruitment is done through the primary university.

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HEALENAE: Health and Environment in Africa and Europe includes seven universities: Aarhus University (Denmark), University of Cape Town (South Africa), University of Edinburgh (UK), KU Leuven (Belgium), Makerere University (Uganda), University of Nairobi (Kenya) and Oslo University (Norway).

The HEALENAE Doctoral Network offers a cross-continental, innovative, interdisciplinary, and multi-sectoral anthropological approach to pressing, interrelated health and environmental challenges across contemporary Africa and Europe.

HEALENAE will develop a strong interdisciplinary network that is based in anthropology, global one health, environmental and regional studies, to document and analyse connections, correspondences and new challenges for health and environmental contexts in and between Africa and Europe.

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