[ecrea] Vacancy - Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities (tenure track)

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities (tenure track)
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/open-positions/assistant-professor-in-digital-humanities-tenure-track

The University of Helsinki – among the best in the world
Founded in 1640, the University of Helsinki is one of the best 
multidisciplinary research universities in the world. The University of 
Helsinki is an international academic community of 40,000 students and 
staff members. It operates on four campuses in Helsinki and at 15 other 
locations. The high-quality research carried out by the university 
creates new knowledge for educating diverse specialists in various 
fields, and for utilisation in social decision-making and the business 
sector.

The Faculty of Arts is Finland’s oldest institution for teaching and 
research in the humanities and the largest in terms of the structure and 
range of disciplines. It is also a significant international community 
fostering research, education and cultural interaction. The Faculty has 
7,000 undergraduate and postgraduate students and employs 500 experts.

The Faculty of Arts invites applications for an

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR (TENURE TRACK) IN DIGITAL HUMANITIES

to develop an new discipline at the University of Helsinki.

Digital humanities is a multidisciplinary research field which uses 
digital technology and the methods of computational science in the 
collection, management and analysis of research materials in the 
humanities and social sciences. The assistant professor in digital 
humanities is expected to produce new knowledge about the effects and 
exploitation of digitalisation as well as the environment within which 
open science operates in the humanities and social sciences.

The work environment of the assistant professor in digital humanities at 
the Department of Philosophy, History, Culture and Art Studies is a 
multidisciplinary academic community of some 125 researchers and 
teachers. Research in digital humanities blends in seamlessly with the 
range of disciplines represented at the Department: folklore studies, 
European ethnology, museology, archaeology, history, philosophy, gender 
studies, film and television studies, musicology and ethnomusicology, 
comparative literature, art history and theatre studies. Applicants are 
expected to have competencies that will complement and support the 
Department’s current strengths. The assistant professor will have the 
opportunity to receive versatile and critical mentoring. He or she may 
also acquire teaching merits and qualifications in university pedagogy.

In the tenure track system, the University employs as assistant 
professors talented, motivated academics who have completed their 
doctoral degree and have since accrued academic and other relevant 
qualifications. See University of Helsinki Tenure Track system.

The assistant professor is expected to contribute innovatively to the 
development of the field, provide interdisciplinary teaching in the 
field and acquire external funding for international research projects. 
The academic qualifications and teaching experience of applicants as 
well as their ability to perform independent scientific work will be 
considered when making the selection. Additional merit will be granted 
for international and interdisciplinary experience as well as experience 
in open science and in acquiring research funding. The successful 
applicant will preferably also have the knowledge and skills needed to 
teach international students.

Holders of teaching and research positions at Finnish universities must 
be proficient in the language in which they provide instruction, i.e., 
Finnish or Swedish. They must also have at least satisfactory spoken and 
written skills in both Finnish and Swedish. Foreign citizens, non-native 
Finnish citizens or citizens who have not been educated in Finnish or 
Swedish language may be exempted from this requirement without a 
separate application. However, if the appointee to this position is not 
proficient in Finnish or Swedish, he or she is expected to acquire 
moderate proficiency, as becoming proficient in Finnish or Swedish is 
important for the professor’s full integration into the workplace and 
Finnish society. Support for language studies is offered. To 
successfully attend to the duties of the position, the appointee must 
also have good English skills.

The University will assist the appointee in national and international 
networking as well as publishing in international forums. The appointee 
will have the opportunity to receive mentoring. He or she can also 
accumulate teaching experience and increase his or her competence with 
studies in university pedagogy.

The salary will be based on level 7 of the demands level chart for 
teaching and research personnel in the salary system of Finnish 
universities. In addition, the appointee will be paid a salary component 
based on personal work performance.

Applicants are requested to enclose with their applications the 
following English-language documents:
1) A curriculum vitae (see 
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-arts/faculty/instructions-to-appli...)
2) A report (max. 5 pages) on pedagogical expertise (teaching 
philosophy, previous teaching experience, pedagogical skills, the 
ability to use and develop teaching materials, other teaching merits) or 
alternatively, an academic portfolio containing equivalent information 
(see 
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-arts/faculty/instructions-to-appli...)
3) A report (max. 5 pages) on the applicant’s research activities 
(including activities in scientific communities, the acquisition of 
research funding and international scholarly work)
4) A report (1-2 pages) on how the applicant intends to develop his or 
her research and focus his or her activities, if appointed
5) A list of publications on which the applicant has indicated his or 
her key publications; the list should follow the Faculty instructions 
for classifying publications (see
https://www.helsinki.fi/en/faculty-of-arts/faculty/instructions-to-appli...).
6) Certificates of language proficiency

Please submit your application, together with the required attachments, 
through the University of Helsinki Recruitment System via the link Apply 
for job. Applicants who are employees of the University of Helsinki are 
requested to leave their application via the SAP HR portal. The dead 
line for applications is 3 June 2016.

Further information about the position may be obtained from Vice Dean 
Hanna Snellman, tel. +358 050 448 0665, hanna.snellman(at)helsinki.fi.

Apply at latest 03.06.2016

Apply link
https://rekry.helsinki.fi/sap/bc/erecruiting/posting_apply?param=cG9zdF9pbnN0X2d...

Due date

Friday, June 3, 2016


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