Head of Humanities The Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, will launch an ambitious new strategy for the development of human data science, digital research and education through a newly established Centre for Digital Humanities. We are now seeking a visionary and committed Head of Centre who will drive the development of human data science, digital research and research-based education within and across the academic fields of the Humanities. The position is available from 1 May 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter. The primary aim of the Centre is to support researchers at the Faculty of Humanities in setting bold agendas for digital humanities; to develop large-scale data-driven research, and to critically reflect on the implications of digitisation and machine learning in research and society. The Head of Centre will be responsible for driving the advancement of human data science and digital humanities in line with the rapid development of AI, machine learning and other technologies, and to lead the coordination and expansion of the many types of research activities and environments currently engaged with human data science and digitization at the Faculty of Humanities. Profile and job content We expect the Head of Centre to be an internationally recognised and innovative researcher who will significantly contribute to large-scale data-driven research in the humanities. The Head of Centre will be appointed as Professor or Associate Professor on the UCPH Promotion Programme, depending on qualifications, and will have both the academic and managerial responsibility for the Centre for Digital Humanities. The Head of Centre develops the Centre's vision and activity plan in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities’ research leadership. The Head of Centre ensures the implementation of the Centre’s vision through collaboration, counselling, and research support to the faculty’s researchers; the coordination and expansion of the Centre's activities through externally funded commissions; procurement and maintenance of digital infrastructure, and support for the integration of human data science and digitality in research-based education. The Head of Centre will also collaborate with digital actors across faculties and universities, as well as facilitating exchange of ideas and collaboration with external stakeholders, promoting the profile of human data science and the dialogue between digital humanities and the wider world. The Head of Centre will lead a team of data specialists who will facilitate the development of human data science skills among faculty staff, advise and support individual researchers in solving challenges specific to large-scale data-driven research and research applications, and support the development of digital research-based education in the Humanities. Some of the activities of the Centre's data specialists will involve externally funded research commissions in collaboration with collective research projects. Other activities will include supporting individual researchers in the development of research ideas and applications, as well as organizing courses and workshops on digitality in the various fields of humanities research. In addition, the Head of Centre will work with researchers and research groups in the departments to procure and maintain digital research infrastructure, and will lead the Centre’s efforts to provide visibility, overview, and access to internal and external digital resources and facilities, specialized labs, computing power and storage capacity. In addition to the managerial tasks, which will account for 50% of the time, duties of the position also include the Head of Centre’s own research and development of his or her specific field of research, assessment tasks and grant applications. Teaching, supervision, knowledge exchange and outreach to society will be an integral part of the work in the centre and department. The Head of Centre will be employed in a permanent position as Professor, or as Associate Professor on the UCPH promotion programme, in the department that best fits his or her research profile. The position as Head of Centre for Digital Humanities will be for a period of four years with the possibility of extension. About the promotion programme as Associate Professor The University of Copenhagen offers particularly talented associate professors’ employment with the possibility to enter into a promotion programme that can lead to employment as a professor. To be employed as an associate professor on the promotion programme, the candidate must both qualify to work as an associate professor now and demonstrate the potential to transition into a position as a professor at the end of the programme. Both will be assessed based on the UCHP criteria for merit. An associate professor is usually on the promotion programme for a minimum of 2 years and a maximum of 8 years. During the programme, there will be annual interviews with the head of department to assess if the associate professor is “on track”. The programme ends with a final assessment before transitioning to professorship. Learn more about the UCPH promotion programme here. Qualifications The Head of Centre should be an internationally recognized researcher at the level of Professor or Associate Professor, with a documented significant record of publication record and successful research projects involving research objectives and methods of human data science. The Head of Centre should have expertise in large-scale, data-driven humanities research, combining a humanities field (e.g., language, history, media, cultural studies, archaeology, aesthetics) with human data science. The Head of the Centre must demonstrate talent for leadership, interdisciplinary collaboration and supervision, and have experience in cross-institutional cooperation. Applicants must have teaching experience and documented teaching competences at university level. Formal pedagogical training or supervision equivalent to the University of Copenhagen’s teacher training programmes for Assistant Professors (adjunktpædagogikum) is required. Six general criteria for appointment as Professor/associate professor at the University of Copenhagen. UCPH’s six criteria (research, teaching, societal impact, organisational contribution, external funding, and leadership) are the established framework for assessment of the candidates. In addition, each candidate will be assessed according to the specific requirements set out in this job advertisement. Please find more information about the six criteria for professor here. Criteria for associate professors can be found here For information on the qualification requirements for Professors/Associate Professors in the Order on the Employment Structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2019, please read here: https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2019/1443 Non-Danish speakers must acquire the necessary Danish language skills within a period of 3-6 years. Application instructions Please submit the application online in Adobe PDF or Word format by clicking APPLY NOW below. The application including all attachments must be in English. Please note that each field in the application form must only contain a single file of max. 20Mb. The position may be applied for at the Associate Professor on the promotion programme level or at the Full Professor level. Please observe that it is possible to apply to be considered at both levels, but then two separate (though possibly identical) applications must be submitted. *If you are applying for the position as Associate Professor on the promotion programme, please include:* Application letter/cover letter Diplomas (Master and PhD degree or equivalent) Vision and plan for the development of the Centre for Digital Humanities (max 3 pages) Research plan describing current and future research agendas Promotion plan according to the university guidelines: A4 Rapport (ku.dk) Description and documentation of teaching experience and qualifications according to university guidelines (Read more here). Complete and numbered list of publications. The enclosed publications must be marked with star. Publications: Applicants may choose a maximum of five publications* for assessment, of which at least three must have been published within the five years immediately preceding the deadline for applications. Publication dates must be clearly marked on the publication list. The publications selected must be uploaded as attachments and named from 1 to 5. *If you are applying for the position as Professor, please include:* Application letter/cover letter Diplomas (Master and PhD degree or equivalent) Vision and plan for the development of the Centre for Digital Humanities (max 3 pages) Research plan describing current and future research agendas Description and documentation of teaching experience and qualifications according to university guidelines (Read more here). Complete and numbered list of publications. The enclosed publications must be marked with star. Publications: Applicants may choose a maximum of seven publications* for assessment, of which at least three must have been published within the five years immediately preceding the deadline for applications. Publication dates must be clearly marked on the publication list. The publications selected must be uploaded as attachments and named from 1 to 7. *Applies for both positions:* Should any material submitted consist of work with named co-authors, or work that is otherwise the result of collective academic endeavours, the extent of the applicant’s contribution to the work must be clearly stipulated. The Faculty may ask for a signed statement from the co-authors stipulating the extent and nature of each individual’s contribution. Only material in English, German, French, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish will be assessed. Further information Further information about the Faculty of Humanities and its departments can be found here Enquiries about the position can be addressed to the Vice-Dean for Research and Impact, Dorthe Gert Simonsen, dgert@hum.ku.dk, +45 5129 9379. Further information about the application procedure is available from HR, e-mail: hrsc@hrsc.ku.dk. Please refer to ID number 211-0253/23-2K. Terms and Conditions of Employment The position is covered by the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff. Conditions of employment and payment are in accordance with the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations for Academics in the State. Negotiation for salary supplement is possible. A special tax scheme is offered to researchers recruited abroad. Please see: https://ism.ku.dk/onarrival/ If you consider applying from abroad, you may find useful information on how it is to work in Denmark and at UCPH. Find more information at: http://ism.ku.dk, http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/frontpage.htm and https://www.workindenmark.dk/ The University wishes its staff to reflect the diversity of society and therefore welcomes applications from all qualified candidates regardless of personal background. The closing date for applications is 1 December 2023 23:59 *[CEST/CET]** Applications or supplementary material received thereafter will not be considered. After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment manager, acting on the advice of the Appointments Committee, selects which applicants are most relevant according to the requirements in the advertisement for the post and send them to the Assessment Committee for review. All applicants are notified whether their application has been accepted for assessment. Read more about the recruitment process here. Interviews will be held between 4 March and 9 March 2024. (Centraleuropæisk sommertid=CEST/CET = normaltid) APPLY NOW Part of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), and among Europe’s top-ranking universities, the University of Copenhagen promotes research and teaching of the highest international standard. Rich in tradition and modern in outlook, the University gives students and staff the opportunity to cultivate their talent in an ambitious and informal environment. An effective organisation – with good working conditions and a collaborative work culture – creates the ideal framework for a successful academic career. Info Application deadline:* 01-12-2023 Employment start: 01-05-2024 Department/Location: Det Humanistiske Fakultet If you apply for this position please say you saw it on Adminoxy

Head of Humanities

The Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen, will launch an ambitious new strategy for the development of human data science, digital research and education through a newly established Centre for Digital Humanities. We are now seeking a visionary and committed Head of Centre who will drive the development of human data science, digital research and research-based education within and across the academic fields of the Humanities.

The position is available from 1 May 2024 or as soon as possible thereafter.

The primary aim of the Centre is to support researchers at the Faculty of Humanities in setting bold agendas for digital humanities; to develop large-scale data-driven research, and to critically reflect on the implications of digitisation and machine learning in research and society. The Head of Centre will be responsible for driving the advancement of human data science and digital humanities in line with the rapid development of AI, machine learning and other technologies, and to lead the coordination and expansion of the many types of research activities and environments currently engaged with human data science and digitization at the Faculty of Humanities.

Profile and job content

We expect the Head of Centre to be an internationally recognised and innovative researcher who will significantly contribute to large-scale data-driven research in the humanities. The Head of Centre will be appointed as Professor or Associate Professor on the UCPH Promotion Programme, depending on qualifications, and will have both the academic and managerial responsibility for the Centre for Digital Humanities.

The Head of Centre develops the Centre's vision and activity plan in collaboration with the Faculty of Humanities’ research leadership. The Head of Centre ensures the implementation of the Centre’s vision through collaboration, counselling, and research support to the faculty’s researchers; the coordination and expansion of the Centre's activities through externally funded commissions; procurement and maintenance of digital infrastructure, and support for the integration of human data science and digitality in research-based education. The Head of Centre will also collaborate with digital actors across faculties and universities, as well as facilitating exchange of ideas and collaboration with external stakeholders, promoting the profile of human data science and the dialogue between digital humanities and the wider world.

The Head of Centre will lead a team of data specialists who will facilitate the development of human data science skills among faculty staff, advise and support individual researchers in solving challenges specific to large-scale data-driven research and research applications, and support the development of digital research-based education in the Humanities. Some of the activities of the Centre's data specialists will involve externally funded research commissions in collaboration with collective research projects. Other activities will include supporting individual researchers in the development of research ideas and applications, as well as organizing courses and workshops on digitality in the various fields of humanities research.

In addition, the Head of Centre will work with researchers and research groups in the departments to procure and maintain digital research infrastructure, and will lead the Centre’s efforts to provide visibility, overview, and access to internal and external digital resources and facilities, specialized labs, computing power and storage capacity.

In addition to the managerial tasks, which will account for 50% of the time, duties of the position also include the Head of Centre’s own research and development of his or her specific field of research, assessment tasks and grant applications. Teaching, supervision, knowledge exchange and outreach to society will be an integral part of the work in the centre and department.

The Head of Centre will be employed in a permanent position as Professor, or as Associate Professor on the UCPH promotion programme, in the department that best fits his or her research profile. The position as Head of Centre for Digital Humanities will be for a period of four years with the possibility of extension.

About the promotion programme as Associate Professor

The University of Copenhagen offers particularly talented associate professors’ employment with the possibility to enter into a promotion programme that can lead to employment as a professor. To be employed as an associate professor on the promotion programme, the candidate must both qualify to work as an associate professor now and demonstrate the potential to transition into a position as a professor at the end of the programme. Both will be assessed based on the UCHP criteria for merit.

An associate professor is usually on the promotion programme for a minimum of 2 years and a maximum of 8 years. During the programme, there will be annual interviews with the head of department to assess if the associate professor is “on track”. The programme ends with a final assessment before transitioning to professorship.

Learn more about the UCPH promotion programme here.

Qualifications

The Head of Centre should be an internationally recognized researcher at the level of Professor or Associate Professor, with a documented significant record of publication record and successful research projects involving research objectives and methods of human data science.

The Head of Centre should have expertise in large-scale, data-driven humanities research, combining a humanities field (e.g., language, history, media, cultural studies, archaeology, aesthetics) with human data science.

The Head of the Centre must demonstrate talent for leadership, interdisciplinary collaboration and supervision, and have experience in cross-institutional cooperation.

Applicants must have teaching experience and documented teaching competences at university level. Formal pedagogical training or supervision equivalent to the University of Copenhagen’s teacher training programmes for Assistant Professors (adjunktpædagogikum) is required.

Six general criteria for appointment as Professor/associate professor at the University of Copenhagen.

UCPH’s six criteria (research, teaching, societal impact, organisational contribution, external funding, and leadership) are the established framework for assessment of the candidates. In addition, each candidate will be assessed according to the specific requirements set out in this job advertisement.

Please find more information about the six criteria for professor here.

Criteria for associate professors can be found here

For information on the qualification requirements for Professors/Associate Professors in the Order on the Employment Structure for Academic Staff at Universities 2019, please read here: https://www.retsinformation.dk/eli/lta/2019/1443

Non-Danish speakers must acquire the necessary Danish language skills within a period of 3-6 years.

Application instructions

Please submit the application online in Adobe PDF or Word format by clicking APPLY NOW below. The application including all attachments must be in English.

Please note that each field in the application form must only contain a single file of max. 20Mb.

The position may be applied for at the Associate Professor on the promotion programme level or at the Full Professor level. Please observe that it is possible to apply to be considered at both levels, but then two separate (though possibly identical) applications must be submitted.

If you are applying for the position as Associate Professor on the promotion programme, please include:

Application letter/cover letter
Diplomas (Master and PhD degree or equivalent)
Vision and plan for the development of the Centre for Digital Humanities (max 3 pages)
Research plan describing current and future research agendas
Promotion plan according to the university guidelines: A4 Rapport (ku.dk)
Description and documentation of teaching experience and qualifications according to university guidelines (Read more here).
Complete and numbered list of publications. The enclosed publications must be marked with star*.
Publications: Applicants may choose a maximum of five publications for assessment, of which at least three must have been published within the five years immediately preceding the deadline for applications. Publication dates must be clearly marked on the publication list. The publications selected must be uploaded as attachments and named from 1 to 5.

If you are applying for the position as Professor, please include:

Application letter/cover letter
Diplomas (Master and PhD degree or equivalent)
Vision and plan for the development of the Centre for Digital Humanities (max 3 pages)
Research plan describing current and future research agendas
Description and documentation of teaching experience and qualifications according to university guidelines (Read more here).
Complete and numbered list of publications. The enclosed publications must be marked with star*.
Publications: Applicants may choose a maximum of seven publications for assessment, of which at least three must have been published within the five years immediately preceding the deadline for applications. Publication dates must be clearly marked on the publication list. The publications selected must be uploaded as attachments and named from 1 to 7.

Applies for both positions:

Should any material submitted consist of work with named co-authors, or work that is otherwise the result of collective academic endeavours, the extent of the applicant’s contribution to the work must be clearly stipulated. The Faculty may ask for a signed statement from the co-authors stipulating the extent and nature of each individual’s contribution.

Only material in English, German, French, Danish, Norwegian and Swedish will be assessed.

Further information

Further information about the Faculty of Humanities and its departments can be found here

Enquiries about the position can be addressed to the Vice-Dean for Research and Impact, Dorthe Gert Simonsen, dgert@hum.ku.dk, +45 5129 9379.

Further information about the application procedure is available from HR, e-mail: hrsc@hrsc.ku.dk. Please refer to ID number 211-0253/23-2K.

Terms and Conditions of Employment

The position is covered by the Memorandum on Job Structure for Academic Staff.

Conditions of employment and payment are in accordance with the agreement between the Danish Ministry of Taxation and The Danish Confederation of Professional Associations for Academics in the State. Negotiation for salary supplement is possible.

A special tax scheme is offered to researchers recruited abroad. Please see: https://ism.ku.dk/onarrival/

If you consider applying from abroad, you may find useful information on how it is to work in Denmark and at UCPH. Find more information at: http://ism.ku.dk, http://www.nyidanmark.dk/en-us/frontpage.htm and https://www.workindenmark.dk/

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

The closing date for applications is 1 December 2023 23:59 [*CEST/CET]

Applications or supplementary material received thereafter will not be considered.

After the expiry of the deadline for applications, the authorized recruitment manager, acting on the advice of the Appointments Committee, selects which applicants are most relevant according to the requirements in the advertisement for the post and send them to the Assessment Committee for review. All applicants are notified whether their application has been accepted for assessment. Read more about the recruitment process here.

Interviews will be held between 4 March and 9 March 2024.

*(Centraleuropæisk sommertid=CEST/CET = normaltid)

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Part of the International Alliance of Research Universities (IARU), and among Europe’s top-ranking universities, the University of Copenhagen promotes research and teaching of the highest international standard. Rich in tradition and modern in outlook, the University gives students and staff the opportunity to cultivate their talent in an ambitious and informal environment. An effective organisation – with good working conditions and a collaborative work culture – creates the ideal framework for a successful academic career.