📝 In every issue of Changing Populations, we share a #PhD journey from one of our members. This time, Shu Li, a PhD student in the Department of #SocialStatistics and #Demography, University of Southampton, gives us insight into her research career.

Her #doctoral project focuses on ‘#Socialmedia and #fertility behaviour among the #reproductive-age group: Evidence from #China’.

Read the full article in our 'Researcher spotlight' in section 10 of Changing #Populations: https://sway.cloud.microsoft/WzAYgcw05ELXCdXJ?ref=Link

#CfA Doctoral #Fellowships 2026-27

📌 10 months #Fellowships beginning on 1 September 2026 | in #Beirut | for #Doctoral candidates | focus on #Research in #Humanities and #SocialSciences | organised by #OIBeirut

📅 1 March 2026

🔗https://www.orient-institut.org/fileadmin/user_upload/OI_Beirut/20260106-Call_for_Applications-Doctoral_Fellowships_2026-27.pdf

#CfA Early-career Writing Scholarships for #Doctoral and #Postdoctoral #Scholars

📌 focus on #SouthAsian region, global and art #history, #sociology and more | 12 months starting 1 July 2026 | in #Delhi | organised by #MWFDelhi

📅 15 February 2026

🔗https://karriere.maxweberstiftung.de/jobposting/5fb52c7dc56dedc3c9e85cf0d21dd91f41ea142a0

Applications Now Open - #EPSRC Centre for #Doctoral Training in #Diversity-Led, Mission-Driven Research (#DiveIn CDT)

Are you passionate about using your STEM expertise to make a real difference? DiveIn CDT at the University of Glasgow offers an innovative doctoral training experience across all Schools within the College of #Science & #Engineering.

Deadline: 31 January 2026

www.divein.org.uk

#PhD #academia #UofG #engineering #space #science #glasgow #research

My colleague has just published a new paper in the JMLA, exploring users' perspectives and confidence utilising #SystematicReview #search methods following an online escape room teaching intervention. Interesting stuff!

Evaluation of an online #systematic #review escape room for early career #clinicians and #doctoral #students https://doi.org/10.5195/jmla.2025.2167 #medicine #ResearchMethods #libraries

📘 Have you written a PhD using critical realism?

The critical realism network has just launched a thesis archive to collect these as a public resource:

Our thesis archive provides links to doctoral theses written by critical realist scholars, as a resource to help other researchers understand how critical realism can be employed in social research.

#criticalRealism #doctoral #PhD #thesis

🔥Reminder🔥

It is still possible to #apply for our #doctoral #scholarships until the ⏰15.03.2025.

💫 PhD Programme in Economics
💫 EWI Fellowship Programme
💫 Doctoral Scholarship in Business Administration
💫 Doctoral Scholarship in Behavioural Management Science
💫 Doctoral Scholarship in Demography & Social Inequality
💫 Doctoral Scholarship in Sustainable Smart Energy & Mobility

This is your chance to engage in interdisciplinary #research and join a strong #network !🤝

📍: https://cgs.uni-koeln.de/en/

Friends in European PhD spheres, please give this a watch. I feign ignorance as to who is right and who is wrong, but the young man seems to provide a strong case for coercion and bullying by his supervisors.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ChS0eT683bA

#netherlands #doctoral #phd #toxic #bullyling #academia #academics #gradschool