UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme 2027 for Doctoral Students (Fully Funded to Helsinki, Finland).

Application Deadline:  30 September, 2026 23:59 UTC+3

Applications at the moment are open for the 2027 UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme. The Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme offers registered doctoral college students the chance to make the most of the assets and amenities at UNU-WIDER for their PhD dissertation or thesis analysis on growing economies, and to work with our researchers in areas of mutual curiosity. 

Visiting PhD fellows usually spend three consecutive months at UNU-WIDER earlier than returning to their home establishment. During the programme, fellows put together a number of analysis papers and current a seminar on their analysis findings. They may have the chance to publish their analysis within the WIDER Working Paper Series.

Selection standards

• Applicants have to be enrolled in a PhD programme and have proven means to conduct analysis on growing economies.
• Candidates working in different social sciences might apply however ought to needless to say UNU-WIDER is an economics-focused institute.
• Candidates must be fluent in oral and written English and possess good quantitative and/or qualitative analytical abilities. 
• Applications from suitably certified early-career, feminine, and growing nation researchers are notably inspired.
• The programme is very addressed at researchers at later phases of their PhD.

Benefits

• UNU-WIDER gives a journey grant to cowl the prices of journey to and from the situation of your PhD granting establishment or nation of residence, medical insurance coverage (for medical and hospital companies ensuing from illness and accident throughout your keep at UNU-WIDER), and a month-to-month stipend of EUR 2,100 to cowl dwelling bills in Helsinki in the course of the interval of their fellowship.
• The programme doesn’t cowl bills associated to dependents.

For More Information:

Visit the Official Webpage of the UNU-WIDER Visiting PhD Fellowship Programme