The law school at the University of Warwick organises a summer school which will bring together doctoral students from Law, Women’s studies, politics, sociology and anthropology (or appropriate disciplinary backgrounds) working on interdisciplinary gender and law issues in relation to development. The nucleus of the Summer School is provided by MPhil/doctoral students at SEARCWL, UZ and Warwick University.

The SoDoc meeting at the Jacobs University of Bremen is an annual consultation possibility for PhD students in Social Psychology. The aim of the workshop is to provide an opportunity to present your ongoing PhD project and preliminary data, and to receive feedback from fellow graduate students as well as from experienced teachers. Participants will work in small groups (up to 15 students) with one of the teachers. Each group will have a certain main theme, based on the teachers’ field of expertise. You can choose which group you would like to participate in. The groups: 1. Social cognitive / Cultural Psychology (Teacher: Ulrich Kühnen), 2. Organizational Social Psychology (Steffen Giessner), 3. Acculturation, Prejudice & Intergroup Attitudes (Andreas Zick), 4. Aggression / Applied Social Psychology (Barbara Krahé).

The Center for Doctoral Studies in Social and Behavioral Sciences (CDSS) invites students of all fields of study in political science, psychology and sociology to apply for doctoral fellowhships at the University of Mannheim's Graduate School of Economic and Social Sciences (GESS). The Graduate School's special emphasis is on empirical and quantitative methods. Students profit from and take part in a vibrant research community created by the interactions of the School of Social Sciences, the Mannheim Centre for European Social Research (MZES), the  Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences (GESIS), the Mannheim Research Institute for the Economics of Aging (MEA), the Central Institute of Mental Health (ZI) and the Collaborative Research Centre 884. The 2010 program starts in September.

The IWM invites forty graduate students and young postdoctoral researchers in the humanities or social sciences to take part in the Summer School within the Institute’s research focus on “Religion & Secularism”. It will provide a forum for study and discussion with leading scholars on major questions and challenges related to the topic.

The programme consists of 4 seminars:

• Religion and Multiple Modernities
• Religion and Democracy
• The Role of Faith in Public Discourse
• God in Contemporary Debates

The Graduate School of Arts and Social Sciences of Maastricht University opens five fully funded PhD positions in the field of arts and social sciences. PhD candidates are offered a 3 or 4 year contract. The programme is characterized by its interdisciplinary approach and its international character, focused on three topics:
1. European Administrative Governance;
2. Science, Technology and Society, including Globalization and Development;
3. Cultural Memory and Diversity (see below)

University of Sydney offers a full-time postgraduate scholarship (commencing in Semester 2, 2010) to undertake research leading to a PhD in international conflict. The project will investigate the roles of norms, political culture, values, and/or similar factors in patterns of interstate conflict across different regions of the world. The research will be complementary to, and in close interaction with, an ARC-funded project on the role of political institutions in regional conflict dynamics.

Nuffield College Oxford, in partnership with the John Fell Fund and the Department of Sociology, intends to appoint a John Fell Fund Research Fellow in Experimental Social Sciences, with effect from 1 September 2010. Applications are invited from graduates of any country wishing to undertake experimental research in any area of sociology. Applicants who wish to undertake interdisciplinary research which includes sociology will also be considered.

The Turkish Cultural Foundation (TCF) offers fellowships to support scholarship and publications on Turkish culture and art with the goal to increase knowledge on Turkey’s cultural heritage in Turkey and around the world. Length of Fellowship is one year. Fellowships are open to scholars who are engaged in the research phase of doctoral studies and for scholars whose Ph.D. or equivalent professional training has been completed within the past 10 years.

The Transregional Center for Democratic Studies of The New School for Social Research is announcing the 19th Democracy & Diversity Graduate Summer Institute and welcomes a diverse cohort of forty junior scholars from The New School, Europe, and other parts of the world for an intensive program of study in society, culture and politics, this year centered around the theme “Citizens without Borders” (de-territorialization, and new practices that reshape identities and traditional notions of citizenship). A full description of courses and Institute faculty, as well as information on how to apply, will be available in early February 2010.

The Bucerius Ph.D. scholarship program in migration studies "Settling Into Motion" offers up to eight scholarships for Ph.D. theses addressing migration in changing societies.
For 2010, research applications on "Migration, Diversity and the Future of Modern Societies" are especially welcome. Qualified Ph.D. students of - in a broad sense - social sciences can apply.