Promotion in Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Forschungsschwerpunkte
Innerhalb der Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften gibt es verschiedene Möglichkeiten der Spezialisierung im PhD. Folgende Forschungsbereiche lassen sich unter anderem diesem Studienfeld zuordnen:
- Anthropology
- Art History
- Classic Languages (Ancient Greek and Latin)
- Creative Writing
- Criminology
- Culture Studies
- Development Studies & Peace Studies
- Economics
- Language Studies
- Literature and Theatre Studies
- Environmental Studies & Climate Change
- Gender Studies
- Geography
- History
- Indigenous Studies
- Law and Justice
- Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
- Media and Communications
- Philosophy
- Politics and International Studies
- Psychology
- Screen and Cultural Studies
- Sociology
Dein genaues Forschungsthema kannst du in direkter Absprache mit den potentiellen Supervisor:innen abstimmen. Falls du noch keine feste Vorstellung für dein Thema hast, schau dir gerne einige der aktuell ausgeschriebenen Projekte an.
Auswahl möglicher Forschungsprojekte in Australien
PhD Humanities
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Lisa Hill, lisa.hill@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | The state of Victoria's informal vote rate is high and rising. In order to combat the problem of hundreds of thousands of 'lost votes' at Victorian state and local government elections we must first understand it. This collaboration with the Victorian Electoral Commission addresses the problem at both state and local levels over 3 election periods using 4 distinct studies. We combine experimental data, aggregate-level data and individual-level data to provide a thorough and multi-dimensional picture of informal voting. We will then propose remedies to be trialled and assessed. Taken together, our studies will represent the first multi-dimensional analysis of informality to be conducted in any Western democracy. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | A background in quantitative political /social science methods is desirable but not essential. An interest in electoral studies is also desirable. |
| Additional Information: | The student will have privileged access to unprecedented data sets due to the co-operation of one of Australia’s largest electoral commissions (the VEC). The student will join an active research group (which includes the VEC, Prof. Hill, A/Prof. Rodrigo Praino and Katharina Kretschmer). The group will offer a lovely, supportive and collegial environment. |
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PhD Law |
PhD Humanities |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Chris Boyle, Chris.boyle@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project aims to better understand the lived schooling experience of people with disability. This project expects to generate new knowledge about the lived experiences of schooling from people with a disability across generations. The expected outcome will be a detailed understanding of the effects of inclusive education policy reform. The benefits include an enhanced capacity by governments to build world-leading reform of inclusive education and better educational and social outcomes of students with disabilities. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | Education/psychology background. Candidates who have already published would be highly regarded |
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PhD Humanities |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Melissa Nursey-Bray, melissa.nursey-bray@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | In the light of the climate crisis, adaptation to its impacts will be increasingly urgent. Adaptation programs are being implemnted the world over, often led by local government. However, there is a gap in knowledge about the extent to which adaptation programs fulfil their objectives, and to what extent they are successfully building long term community resilience to climate change. This project, which can either be a Australia/Germany comparative case study, or one country focussed, seeks to document the history of, and then assess the effectiveness of local government led climate adaptation. How does adaptation policy translate in practice? Results will offer pathways for more effective adaptation practice as well as insights into case studies, and development of a methodology by which to evaluate adaptation over time. Suitable for candidates with backgrounds in history, politics, environmental science, public and other policy, conservation and environmental management. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Humanities |
PhD Earth Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Megan Warin, megan.warin@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | The project aims to drive an urgently needed shift from top-down interventions that focus on obesity as an individual problem of diets and exercise, to collective solutions of care generated by families for families, empowering social change at a local, community level. In collaboration with Australia’s leading designers of social innovation, this anthropology project expects to generate new knowledge about care and food practices in disadvantaged communities, and to construct new digital, policy, and program frameworks for broader adaptation. The advances are likely to have a strong bearing on how obesity interventions, and more equitable health policy and practice, evolve in Australia and internationally. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | A background in anthropology, sociology, gender studies or Science and Technology Studies. Knowledge of ethnographic fieldwork is desirable. |
| Additional Information: | This PhD student will be able to develop a project tailored to their skills and interests, but will involve fieldwork with industry partners and in differing community locations in Adelaide. The successful candidate will work closely with a postdoctoral fellow, Chief Investigators on the project (Dr Tanya Zivkovic) and our industry partners. |
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PhD Humanities |
PhD Health Sciences |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Ed Palmer, edward.palmer@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project aims to create training scenarios that can be dynamically generated through AI with parameters that vary according to trainee behaviour. It will generate new knowledge in the collection and analysis of data necessary to create immersive 3D objects in VR. These objects would be intended to create deeper and more meaningful learning opportunities for users of VR. The benefits of the project would be directly relevant to the training industry as it will allow for the design of specifically tailored learning at a level appropriate for the user for less cost than current VR scenarios. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | Virtual reality, AI and computer science background. Candidate who have already published or presented would be highly regarded. |
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PhD Humanities |
PhD Engineering |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Katie Barclay, Katie.barclay@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Today many children and young people are experiencing distress as they try to imagine a future in challenging environmental conditions. However this is not the first time people have experienced living ‘at the end of the world’. This project explores how early modern Europeans created the conditions to feel safe and to imagine new futures during crisis, including wars, environmental change, and revolution. We are particularly interested in deploying methodologies from the History of Emotions to consider how people ‘feel’ during such experiences and how they promote resilience in children and families. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Humanities |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Katie Barclay, Katie.barclay@adelaide.edu.au |
| Contact for Project Details: | graduate.research@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project explores the development of the law around providing redress for emotional injury between the eighteenth century and the present day. It brings together approaches from the History of Emotions, law and legal history, to consider how ideas about emotional harm have changed to reflect evolving ideas about emotion, not least during a period where psychology and related sciences were invented. It considers the relationship between medical and legal authority in shaping knowledge of emotion and in the types of redress the law provides. Working with legal records, the project considers histories of workplaces, family life, and the self. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Humanities |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Fran Baum, fran.baum@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project concerns public policies designed to reduce health inequities. It is part of the research program of Professor Baum’s National Health and Medical Research Council Investigator Fellowship entitled “Restoring the Fair Go: which policies and practices are likely to reverse growing health inequities in Australia post-COVID-19?”. The project seeks to compare responses to growing health inequities in different OECD countries. This project would consist of a comparison of Germany and Australia in terms of the effectiveness of their public policy designed to reduce health inequities. Analysis of policies and interviews with key actors will be focus of the PhD. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | Understanding of public policy and the social and economic determinants of health equity |
| Additional Information: | The student will join a vibrant and active research group where all researchers focus on health equity and social justice approaches to public health. This group will be a very supportive place to do a PhD. |
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PhD Humanities |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Jennifer Stone, j.stone@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | Sycophancy and narcissism are common traits seen in the workplace and they have a deleterious impact of workplace culture, including issues of integrity. This project focusses on exploring these impacts broadly and in relation to academic and research settings. The focus will be on systematic reviews. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
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PhD Humanities |
PhD Health Sciences |
PhD Business |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Jordi Fernandez, jorge.fernandez@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project concerns an experience that is normally part of consciousness; the awareness of a conscious state as the subject's own. The main aim of the project is to specify exactly what it is to undergo that experience. This issue is at the heart of a perennial debate about consciousness, that on whether we are aware of our conscious states as our own, or we are merely aware of their occurrence. The anticipated outcomes include a conceptual distinction between two components of consciousness, and an analysis of the nature of three mental disorders in which the two components seem to come apart. These outcomes are expected to constitute a significant innovation in the study of consciousness and, more generally, in the philosophy of mind. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Additional Information: | Project funds are expected to be spent by the end of 2024. However, the research will continue and, with it, a supporting environment for a potential PhD student working on it. |
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PhD Humanities |
PhD Health Sciences |
ADL Projects
Toward a Female Stoic Tradition: Women's Writings in England, 1600-1800 | The University of Adelaide
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01/08/2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30/06/2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Lisa Hill, lisa.hill@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace Campus, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project aims to investigate the neglected history of women’s engagement with Stoic ideas in early modern England. It expects to generate new knowledge of a distinctive strand of women’s Stoic thought by taking a novel interdisciplinary approach to different genres of early modern writing. The intended outcomes include a new understanding of women’s valuable contributions to philosophy, literature, and politics in the period, as well as a greater appreciation of the gender-inclusivity of Stoic philosophy. This should provide significant benefits, such as the development of Stoic therapeutic techniques informed by women’s experiences, and the promotion of gender equality through the recognition of women’s intellectual history. |
| Funding Information: | GOstralia! Research Centre Scholarships |
| Special Requirements: | The student will ideally have a background in one or more of the following: history of political thought, intellectual history, political theory, classics or political philosophy. |
| Additional Information: | The student will join a team of leading researchers (Prof. Lisa Hill, A/Prof. Jacqueline Broad and Dr Diana Barnes) and will be mentored academically and professionally by Prof. Hill. |
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PhD Humanities |
ADL Projects
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| University: | University of Adelaide |
| Faculty: | Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics |
| Project Start Date: | 01.08.2023 |
| Application Deadline: | 30.06.2023 |
| Supervisor Name: | Antony Eagle; antony.eagle@adelaide.edu.au |
| Location (City/Campus): | North Terrace, Adelaide |
| Project Description: | This project aims to critically examine a number of accounts of how (and if) we may reconcile what we know about ordinary objects with the unexpected things science has taught us about space, time, and the fundamental building blocks of nature. We anticipate generating new knowledge in metaphysics, exploiting the recent 'locative turn' to revitalise perennial questions about existence, persistence, and change. The HDR candidate’s project is expected to be in the fields of metaphysics or philosophy of physics; students with an appropriate background in philosophy or physics are encouraged to apply. There is no specified thesis topic; students will be supported in developing their own topic within the remit of the project. |
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| Additional Information: | More details about the project can be found at https://antonyeagle.org/place/ |
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PhD Humanities |
PhD Maths, Physics |
PhD Earth Sciences |
ADL Projects
Grundlegendes zum Schwerpunkt Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften
Die Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften liefern in Australien einen wichtigen Beitrag, um gesellschaftliche Entwicklungen zu analysieren, zu reflektieren und zu hinterfragen. Sie konzentrieren sich nicht nur auf die theoretische Auseinandersetzung mit gesellschaftlichen Systemen, sondern spielen eine Schlüsselrolle bei grundlegenden Transformationsprozessen. Laufende Forschungsprojekte erarbeiten auf der Grundlage aktueller Theorien, technologischer Entwicklung und der Betrachtung von sozialen Phänomenen ein Handlungswissen, das für die aktive Gestaltung und Umgestaltung von Gesellschaften existentiell ist. Eine entscheidende Rolle spielt hier die multi- und interdisziplinäre Zusammenarbeit und eine starke internationale Vernetzung.
Obwohl die humanities and social sciences aktuell nicht auf der Liste der „Australian Research Priorities“ stehen, leisten sie einen maßgeblichen Beitrag zu zentralen gesellschaftlichen Themengebieten.
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