Associate Professor within Digital Humanities and Humanistic eScience methods

The Department of Design, Media and Educational Science, University of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Humanities, invites applications for a position as Associate Professor within Digital Humanities and Humanistic eScience methods. The position is placed at the University’s Kolding campus and is available from May 1st 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.
The Department of Design, Media and Educational Science is a humanistic department with research in a wide spectrum of areas, from Business Language, Design, Education Sciences, Information Studies, Library Science, Upper Secondary Didactics, Media Science, Organisational Communication, Philosophy, Tourism and Experience Economy, and Web Communication. Of particular relevance for the position are the research activities within informatics, Digital Humanities, eScience, computational thinking, designs for learning with ICT, web communication and web technologies.

The selected applicant is expected to strengthen the department’s profile within Digital Humanities and Humanistic eScience methods. Relevant profiles include, but are not limited to, research backgrounds in:

• Learning analytics
• Text mining and text data analytics
• Visualization of historical artefacts and Digital Twins analyses
• Data visualization within Humanistic disciplines
• Computational thinking
• AI in the humanities

Further, the selected applicant is expected to have an interdisciplinary orientation, and to participate actively in the department’s Center for Learning Computational Thinking. Participation in this Center will include engagement in Digital Humanities’ research and teaching utilizing Humanistic eScience methods, with researchers and in teaching across the Faculty of Humanities. It will also include collaboration with the eScience Center at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.

The applicant is expected to have qualifications within Digital Humanities and Humanistic eScience methods, for example within one or more of the profile areas mentioned above. Skills in utilizing ICT for visualization of data within the Humanities is also expected. Programming skills are welcomed but not required.

Applicants must document:

• Research at international scientific level
• Pedagogical skills and teaching experience

The position involves, among other tasks:

• participation in developing the field of Digital Humanities across the Faculty of Humanities
• participation in advancing the utilization of Humanistic eScience methods across the Faculty of Humanities
• teaching, particularly within the areas of eScience, Digital Humanities and computational thinking
• supervision of student projects within web communication, informatics, eScience, Digital Humanities, and computational thinking
• active participation in the department’s ongoing research activities, in particular the Center for Learning Computational Thinking, including collaboration with the eScience Center
• contributing to new research perspectives within the areas of Digital Humanities and Humanistic eScience methods

The applicant is expected to have a Ph.D. within the fields of Informatics, eScience, Digital Humanities, Computational Thinking, Learning Analytics, AI in the humanities, or a related field.

Head of Center for Learning Computational Thinking, Professor Nina Bonderup Dohn ( nina@sdu.dk), or Head of Department, Marianne Wolff Lundholt ( malu@sdu.dk), can be contacted for further information.
If you are not a Danish speaking applicant, please make sure to enter the electronic application form via the English website in order to receive further information in English.

Application, salary and conditions of employment, etc.
The successful applicant will be employed in accordance with the agreement between the Ministry of Finance and AC (the Danish Confederation of Professional Associations), Cirkulære om overenskomst for Akademikere i staten 2019 (the document only exists in Danish).

If the successful applicant has not documented teaching experience corresponding to assistant professor level, the applicant will be employed on trial for the first 18 months.

An application must include:

Application letter
Curriculum Vitae
Research plan
Diplomas/Certificates
Information on previous teaching experience, please attach as Teaching portfolio (see below)
List of publications indicating the publications attached
A maximum of 6 of the most relevant publications. Please attach one pdf-file for each publication. For any publication with a co-author, a co-author statement must be submitted as part of the pdf-file
Applicants for an associate professorship at the Faculty of Humanities are requested to submit a teaching portfolio with the application as documentation for teaching experience as well as supervision qualifications. Please read more here.


Application and all appendices must be in Danish, English, German or one of the Scandinavian languages. Please always include a copy of original diploma/certificates.  We only accept files in pdf-format no more than 10 MB per file. In case you have more than one file per field you need to combine the pdf-files into a single file, as each field handles only one file. We do not accept zip-files, jpg or other image files. All pdf-files must be unlocked and allow binding and may not be password protected.

Applications will be assessed by an assessment committee and the applicant will receive the part of the evaluation that concerns him/her. The assessment report will subsequently be forwarded to the Head of Department who will assemble an appointments committee. An interview may form part of the overall assessment of the applicants' qualifications.  

The committee may request additional information, and if so, it is the responsibility of the applicant to provide the necessary material.

If the application does not meet the requirements mentioned above, the Faculty of Humanities may reject your application without further notice. Applications received after the deadline will neither be considered nor evaluated.

Shortlisting and tests may be used in the assessment process. Please note that only a shortlisted applicant will receive an assessment.

Applications should be sent electronically via the link "apply online" and the Faculty expects applicants to read the information "How to apply" before applying.

We recommend that as an international applicant you take the time to visit Working in Denmark where you will find information and facts about moving to, working and living in Denmark, as well as the International Staff Office at SDU.

The University wishes our staff to reflect the diversity of society and thus welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background.

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