[ecrea] Tallinn University seeks an ERA Chair professor and team leader in cultural data analytics

ERA Chair vacancy announcement for a professor in cultural data 
analytics (starting in summer 2019)

Tallinn University (TLU - https://www.tlu.ee/) is launching a European 
Commission funded ERA Chair project on Cultural Data Analytics (CUDAN - 
http://cudan.tlu.ee) . As a first step we seek to fill the Chair itself 
– a professorship in cultural data analytics. This would offer a unique 
possibility for an internationally established scholar in digital 
humanities, digital culture studies or in digital data analytics to head 
a new research and innovation unit in the emergent interdisciplinary field.

The ERA Chair will, as a whole, link existing Tallinn University 
capabilities of in digital culture studies, cultural theory, data 
analytics, open data projects, cultural policy studies and creative and 
media industries studies. As such the project aims at creating synergies 
across multiple areas, in order to connect and combine various data 
sources to cultural practices of both consumption and production. 
Reflecting this CUDAN is in effect a cooperation project between three 
TLU schools – School of Humanities, School of Digital Technologies and 
the Baltic Film, Media, Arts and Communication School (BFM).
ERA Chair holder will be responsible for the formation of a new research 
group (7+ researchers) for which there is funding. The Chair will also 
formulate the research directions of the group and will lead the group 
at least the next 4,5 years until the initial project ends. However, the 
project/group is expected to continue also later as it expected to 
secure additional funding. One of the main tasks of the ERA Chair holder 
is to launch a CUDAN Open Lab – a platform/programme/space for 
cooperating with a variety of external partners.

Required qualifications and experience for a successful candidate are:
	• A PhD degree in digital humanities, digital culture studies or in 
data analytics;
	• Minimum of 10 years of experience in managing research teams and/or 
planning and implementing research and innovation projects;
	• Strong academic background and international reputation in digital 
humanities/digital culture studies;
	• Publications in international peer reviewed journals;
	• Experience in supervision of PhD students;
	• Experience in forming and managing research teams;
	• Experience in planning new research projects;
	• Experience in coordination of international research projects (e.g. 
Framework Programme, Horizon 2020);
	• Experience in collaborating with both public and private non-academic 
stakeholders.

For the ERA chair holder, who is expected to reside in Estonia, Tallinn 
University will offer a monthly basic gross salary of 5200 EUR with 
possibilities for further remuneration options and diverse employee 
benefits. The successful candidate will be working in the newly 
renovated Tallinn University campus that offers excellent infrastructure 
with advanced technologies and facilities.

The application process starts in January 2019.
This announcement should be considered as preliminary information about 
the post. The actual call will be published early January with a 
deadline for applications in February (concrete dates will be published 
on the project website soon). For registering your interest or for 
requesting further information, please visit the CUDAN website 
(http://cudan.tlu.ee) or contact the current project manager prof. 
Indrek Ibrus, (indrek.ibrus /at/ tlu.ee)
Find more about living and working in the digitally advanced and 
affordable Estonia here: http://researchinestonia.eu/ ; 
https://www.workinestonia.com/living-in-estonia/

About CUDAN

The project aims at developing an analytical approach, called “Cultural 
Data Analytics”, which integrates existing Tallinn University strengths 
in cultural semiotics and cultural theory, data analytics, digital 
culture studies and creative industries’ studies to work with digitised 
cultural heritage as well as with born-digital data scraped from 
contemporary platforms.

The ERA Chair and her/his spearheaded Open Lab cooperation platform will 
cooperate with multiple external partners, both public and private, in 
order to collect, analyse and use digital cultural data, to better 
understand contemporary cultural dynamics and incorporate this 
understanding into public cultural service designs, and cultural and 
creative industries policies.

The expected impact of CUDAN reaches from introducing new ways to 
coordinate research, develop new research methods, apply the research 
results for developing new cultural services and policies, facilitate 
thematic cooperation between academia, creative and cultural industries, 
the public sector and civil society.




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