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Professor of Digital Humanities
Department of Digital Humanities
King's College London
https://www.hirewire.co.uk/HE/1061247/MS_JobDetails.aspx?JobID=62025
Reference: THW/15/059639/507
Salary Details: Salary to be set upon negotiation from £60,000
Allowances: £2,323 London Allowance
Contract Type: Permanent
Contract Term: Full time
The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) joined what was then the
School of Arts and Humanities as the Centre for Computing in the
Humanities. Departmental status was conferred in 2010 and the name
changed to Department of Digital Humanities, the first such department
in the country. The Department has a vibrant teaching culture which
offers a PhD in Digital Humanities, four MA programmes in Digital
Humanities; Digital Asset and Media Management; Digital Curation (joint
with University of Humboldt); and Digital Culture and Society (joint
with CMCI). The Department is launching a BA in Digital Cultures to
start in 2015/16. DDH is part of the London Arts & Humanities
Partnership (2014) and provides training (in collaboration with UCL and
the Institute for Historical Research) in digital humanities methods for
PhD students across London. The Department was part of a successful
joint submission (with our sister Department of Culture, Media, and
Creative Industries) to the 2014 UK Research Excellence Framework (REF)
for the UoA 36: Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and
Information Management, in which our submission was rated 8th overall,
and 1st for research power.
The Department of Digital Humanities is seeking to appoint a Professor
of Digital Humanities tenable from 1st September 2015. The post-holder
will take a leading role in delivering world-leading research, research
led teaching, and research mentoring and supervision. The post-holder
will also be expected to take a leading role in the administration of
the Department, including providing leadership as Head of Department in
the future.
The post holder will be able to demonstrate an international profile in
the digital humanities broadly conceived, with an excellent publication
record and preferably a track record of achieving grant funding. We are
seeking to recruit a Chair whose work builds and expands on our
research, extending the department’s work into new directions and
significant emergent areas. Candidates from all areas of the digital
humanities will be considered but we particularly welcome applications
from candidates whose research seeks to demonstrate a deep theoretical
understanding of the digital humanities and how the theoretical insights
gained might be used to provoke new thinking, be applied in practice,
and to cross disciplinary and domain boundaries. The post holder will be
expected to provide inspiring and innovative teaching that features a
mix of theory, practice and interactivity, initially across the existing
range of options, and to create new modules of broad interest at both BA
and MA level. S/he will also seek out new and emerging student markets
and contribute to the development of new programmes to meet student demand.
The closing date for receipt of applications is 17th June 2015.
Interviews will be held on early July 2015.
Equality of opportunity is College policy.
Salary to be settled by negotiation, based on qualifications and
experience, starting from £60,000.
For an informal discussion of the post please contact Sheila Anderson
Head of Department on 020-7848-1981 or via email at
sheila.anderson@kcl.ac.uk.
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