Doctoral Researchers, University College Dublin

Application Deadline: October 7th 2026 (11:59 PM Dublin Time)

The UCD School of Sociology is inviting applications for two fully-funded PhD positions within the ERC Starting Grant project ‘From Human Capital to Intelligence Management: Data-driven Economy and Brain-Computer Interfaces (IMR)’.

These are article-based doctoral dissertations, starting as soon as possible, or by January 1st, 2027. One will focus on the US and Europe, and the other on China. They will focus on the sociological investigation of the sociotechnical production of intelligence within the fields of computational neuroscience and brain research, most especially those supporting BCI technologies.

For full details, see the separate position descriptions below.

https://www.ucd.ie/sociology/study/graduateprogrammes/phdresearcherposition-opportunity1/

https://www.ucd.ie/sociology/study/graduateprogrammes/phdresearcherposition-opportunity2/