Graduate School, Arts Faculty of Arts Aarhus University, Denmark
PhD candidate in social anthropology – Dual PhD degree between Aarhus University and Makerere University
The Graduate School at Arts, Faculty of Arts, University of Aarhus (AU), in collaboration with Makerere University (MU), invites applications for one fully-funded 3-year PhD fellowship in anthropology starting on 1 September 2026. The positions are funded by the EU Research and Innovation programme Horizon Europe, under a grant by Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions Doctoral Networks (MSCA-DN). The successful candidates must commence their PhD degree programme on 1 September 2026.
How is climate-change is associated with youth’s rural-urban migration within Africa, to Europe and in the wider world?
How do young migrants and their networks perceive the relationship between wellbeing, health risks and migration? How are those risks negotiated and managed?
If you are a strong ethnographic researcher who wonders about these things (or you know someone who does), I have the PhD program to match.
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 centered by 15 PhD candidates, 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. [www.healenae.eu]
One of the PhD positions is focused on the relationship between youth migration, environmental change, and health. I am supervising with Stella Neema – read more in the link and contact us if you plan to apply See you in Aarhus and Kampala!
Deadline: 15 March 2026
