6 six three-year PhD Funded Positions in Economics at the University Clermont Auvergne in France
The CERDI, a joint research center of the University Clermont Auvergne (UCA), CNRS and IRD, offers six three-year PhD fellowships (2025-2028) .For four of these fellowships,the applicants are free to define their research within the framework of development economics.
The suggested topics are:
Development macroeconomics (public finance, monetary economics, exchange rate policies, customs administration, natural resources and energy transition, etc);
Development microeconomics (poverty, inequality, gender economics, economics of education, health economics, etc);
International economics (trade, foreign direct investments, financial flows, international migration flows, geopolitical tensions and their consequences, etc);
Environmental and ecological economics (deforestation, agricultural economics and adaptation to climate change, mining and energy, etc).
A specific attention might be given to research projects that explore natural disasters and sustainable development in line with the IRC2D of the project I-Site CAP 20-25 (see link).
For two allocations, the applicants must submit a project on the two following themes: Energy, environment, agriculture, labor markets in Sub-Saharan Africa or South Asia, within the framework of the Chaire Professor Junior, led by Pierre Biscaye, who will supervise the thesis preparation.
Structural transformation/development methods; economic and financial digitization; monetary and exchange rate policy; finance and climate; development and stability of financial systems; economic and monetary integration; innovative statistical tools for decision-making.
This fellowship is financed by a partnership between the Banque de France and FERDI.
The successful candidate will be able to collaborate with the members of this partnership.
Short-listed applicants to whom we are unable to offer a PhD following might still enroll in our PhD program if they are able to obtain the necessary funding.
The applicants must hold or be about to obtain a master’s degree in Economics (or an equivalent qualification).
The application will include the following:
a CV,
a motivation letter,
two academic reference letters;
A maximum of 4 pages of research project (including references),
well documented,
detailing the methodology and showing their ability to tackle the research;
Academic transcripts (BA, Master);
Master thesis (non-mandatory).
To apply: Click on Apply online (https://api.dsi.uca.fr/paybag/registration/form/event/CERDI-2025/lang/en) and upload all the required documents by Tuesday 29 April 2025.
The interviews will be held online from Thursday 22 May and Tuesday 3 June 2025, and candidates who have been selected for an interview will be informed in the previous week.
If you have any questions about the call and/or the application form, contact PhD.cerdi@uca.fr
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