Assistant professorship in eScience and Digital Humanities

The Department of Design and Communication at the University of Southern Denmark, Faculty of Humanities, invites applications for a 3-year position as Assistant Professor within eScience and Digital Humanities. The position is placed at the University’s Kolding campus and is available from July 1st 2020 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The Department of Design and Communication is a humanistic department offering bachelor and master study programs in humanistic ICT and corresponding research activities, particularly within informatics, 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 eScience and Digital Humanities, 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 with researchers across the Faculty of Humanities and collaboration with the eScience Center at the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science.
The applicant is expected to have qualifications within eScience and Digital Humanities, including skill in utilizing ICT for visualization of data within the Humanities. Programming skills are welcomed but not a requirement.

Applicants must document
• scientific and high-level research
• pedagogical skills and teaching experience

The position involves, among other tasks:
• participation in developing the field of Digital Humanities across the Faculty of Humanities
• teaching, particularly within the areas of 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 eScience and Digital Humanities

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

Head of Center for Learning Computational Thinking, Professor Nina Bonderup Dohn ([email protected]), or Head of Department, Marianne Wolff Lundholt ([email protected]), 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, 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). An assistant professorship is a 3-year position. Employment stops automatically by the end of the period. It applies for all positions that they will only cover teaching requirements from related areas, including interdisciplinary teaching activities and Cand. Negot. courses.

To qualify for the position you must have completed a PhD-degree by the time of employment.

An application must include: Application letter Curriculum Vitae Certificates/Diplomas Information on previous teaching experience, please attach as Teaching portfolio List of publications indicating the publications attached Up to 3 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 Application and all appendices must be in Danish, English or one of the Scandinavian languages. Only material in Danish, Norwegian, Swedish, and English will be assessed. Please always include a copy of original diploma/certificates. 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.