PhD fellowship within the field of philosophy at the Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark (DEPMOOD project)

A fully funded, full-time three-year PhD fellowship in the research group of Applied and Interdisciplinary Phenomenology, Department of Psychology, University of Southern Denmark, Odense, with the PhD awarded by the Faculty of Health Sciences. The student joins the project Understanding Experiences of Mood Disturbances in Depression (DEPMOOD), led by Anthony Vincent Fernandez and funded by Independent Research Fund Denmark, which aims to establish a taxonomy of the mood disturbances experienced by people diagnosed with depression, giving more precise characterisations of symptoms than concepts such as “depressed mood” or “anhedonia”.

The project combines philosophical and qualitative methods with in-depth interviews; the PhD student analyses the interview data and writes a theoretical thesis built on the empirical dataset, with PhD courses, an international research stay, light teaching and DKK 10,000 per year for travel. Starting date: 1 September 2027 or as soon as possible thereafter.

A master’s degree in philosophy or a related field (300 ECTS in total) before 1 September 2027, with a background in philosophy of psychiatry, philosophy of emotion and/or phenomenology; proficiency in English.