How do I get a PhD with The Posthumanities Hub?
Sorry, the Posthumanities Hub does not offer PhD-employments at Linköping University. Good to know is that at all Swedish universities, PhD-positions are full social benefit 4 year (+1 year) employments with the Swedish government (ta-da!). These PhD positions are always publicly advertised via the Swedish universities’ Vacancies pages. Often there is a lot of competition for these jobs, especially interdisciplinary humanities, gender studies or other under-funded areas of research. However, we DO LOVE PhD-students (wherever you are in the world) – so we in The Posthumanities Hub would love to host you for a self-funded shorter stint with us on location (at LiU), meet you in our PhD-courses, our webinars – or why not the Hub’s reading group?
PhD Courses
The Posthumanities Hub provides PhD-level courses on a regular basis and functions as a research school. These research courses are very interdisciplinary, very relational and focused on theory, methodology, and the hands-on skills of advanced scholarly research. Some are online, some are hybrid, and some are on-location (for instance, at Linköping University, at a museum, or on the beach).
Unless stated otherwise, PhD-level courses are open to third-cycle/doctoral students enrolled at any university, from any faculty or country, provided that the student fulfils the entry requirements set for each specific course.
Heading the Hub’s research school, Prof Cecilia Åsberg offers the following PhD-level courses at Linköping University (Faculty of Arts and Sciences):
Gender, Nature, Culture: Feminist Posthumanities in Practice (10 credits)
Course dates (online):
· 13-14 October 2026
· 17-18 November 2026
· 19-20 January 2027 (work-in-progress seminars)
· 20-21 April 2027
· 18-19 May 2027
· 1-2 June 2027 (grande finale)
This course explores cutting-edge feminist posthumanities research at the intersection of gender, nature, and culture. Through lectures, workshops, and collaborative sessions, participants engage with key concepts such as transcorporeality, cyborg knowing, multispecies relationality, technologies of gender, coastalcultures, or the arts of noticing. The course may include discussions on topics as diverse as menstrual technologies, antispeciesism, AI and nature, music, seaweed, crip ecologies, and many more.
You will:
• Gain advanced theoretical and methodological tools
• Experiment with field philosophy, arts-based methods, speculative fabulation, and other practices of feminist posthumanities
• Develop your own research through advanced readings and practice-led research, work-in-progress seminars, critical friendship and experimental formats
Bringing together feminist theory and the feminist fields of science and technology studies (STS), cultural studies, environmental humanities, and artistic practice, “Gender, Nature, Culture” fosters critical, creative, and collective knowledge-making. Through intensive 2-day online modules, the course provides a caring and supportive environment for learning together and testing out new ideas. In preparation for these meetings, students will be asked to carry out personal readings. During the modules, they will get a chance to ask questions about the literature, discuss ideas in small groups, practice new methodologies, conduct field experiments, and present their research to the group.
The course introduces participants to feminist thinking on situated knowledge practices and performative, even transformational, research methodologies through (online) lectures and seminars on self-studied course readings, experimental workshops and collaborative teaching and learning approaches. Peer learning is a crucial component of this course. This course is suitable for PhD-students in Gender Studies, science and technology studies, cultural studies, artistic research, environmental humanities, history of science, technology and environment, future studies, eco-critique, and interdisciplinary humanities and social sciences. The course roots the students in feminist theory-practices and scholarly traditions of arts and science, and shifts the perspective based in their own doctoral projects.
Teaching team