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KWI offers the 13th cohort of international fellowships for the duration of 6 months from 1 October 2026 until 31 March 2027.

The KWI fellowship program is designed for excellent researchers from the humanities, cultural studies, and the social sciences. The institute provides fellows with modern infrastructure, office space, technical support and offers a library service, event and research management as well as administrative and communicative support. The programme is open to individual researchers only; applications from groups or teams will not be considered.

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University invites applications for a 20-month full-time postdoctoral researcher to join a new project entitled “Paternalism and Discrimination: Moral Dilemmas in Combatting Group Inequalities” funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. The project is headed by Associate Professor Viki Lyngby Hvid whom the postdoc will be working closely together with. The starting date is flexible and subject to mutual agreement but expected to be between June 2026 and October 2026.

The Danish School of Education (DPU) at the Faculty of Arts, Aarhus University, invites applications for a fixed-term, two-year postdoctoral position associated with the AUFF-funded research project SENSE: Sensory Education in Children with Multiple Impairments.

The position is full-time (37 hours per week) and begins on 1 March 2026 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The position is based within the Department of Educational Psychology at DPU’s Emdrup campus in Copenhagen (see the description of DPU below).

The TrygFonden’s Centre for Child Research at Aarhus BSS, Aarhus University, invites applications for 1-2 positions as postdoc in educational research within the centres research programs (see https://childresearch.au.dk/en/about-us). The right candidate(s) will be employed at the relevant institute (Department of Political Science, Department of Psychology and Behavioural Sciences or at School of Communication and Culture).

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University invites applications for four full-time, three-year postdoctoral positions in SLOMODEMO (Slow-Motion Democracy)—an ERC Advanced Grant project (project no. 101198983), led by professor Kees van Kersbergen.

Start date is preferably 1 September 2026 but is flexible by mutual agreement.

The Department of Political Science at Aarhus University invites applications for one full-time, three-year postdoctoral position in the ERC Starting Grant project EQUILIBRIUM — Changing for the Better: Escaping Negative Equilibria in State-Citizen Relations — led by Associate Professor Jan P. Vogler.
The starting date is 1 August 2026 or 1 September 2026 (with further flexibility based on mutual agreement).

The 2nd call for applications will be open 01 December 2025 until 28 February 2026, with the next cohort starting in 2026.

More details will be available here closer to the time.

Before you submit your application
make sure that:

1. You carefully review all application information.
2. You ensure that you meet the eligibility criteria.
3. You collect all needed information.
4. You only upload the correct documents.

The application deadline for the inaugural Amy Goldman Fowler Fellowship starting September 1, 2026: January 12, 2026, 11:59 PM EST.

Through the generous support of Amy Goldman Fowler, the Center for Jewish History invites applications for the inaugural 10-month Amy Goldman Fowler Fellowship. The stipend is $50,000 for 10 months.

The Jan Patočka Fellowship is part of the Jan Patočka Program.

The call for applications is open to scholars in all academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences. The Jan Patočka Fellowship Program aims to foster research inspired by Jan Patočka’s legacy and his intellectual endeavor to rethink Europe under post-European paradigms. It welcomes scholars working on the manifold philosophical, societal, economic, geopolitical, and historical dimensions of this challenging topic.