The Humlab at Umeå University invites applications for a postdoctoral position in digital humanities with a focus on history/cultural heritage.

Humlab is a meeting place for the humanities, culture and information technology at Umeå University. We primarily work with education and research in collaboration with teachers, students, artists and entrepreneurs nationally, internationally and cross-disciplinarily. Our activities include an open study environment spanning two campuses and a number of digital platforms. Humlab is an operational unit under the Faculty of Arts, with approximately 15 members of staff including researchers, teachers, technicians and administrators.

As a postdoctoral employee at Humlab, you will be expected to both conduct independent research (a minimum of 80%) and contribute to Humlab’s environment and operations (a maximum of 20%). You will also be expected to independently formulate and implement your research project and we will therefore need a research plan. This position offers considerable leeway in the design of your research project, although it must be in the field of digital history and/or cultural heritage, which may for example cover how digital tools and methods can be used to interpret, analyze, understand or present historical processes and events using 3D visualisation (deep maps), GIS, database construction, text analysis (or a combination thereof), or the like. However, it is of the utmost importance that the use of digital tools and methods have a direct correlation to the research questions that drive the research project. In all likelihood, you come from a background in a discipline such as history, history of ideas, museology, archaeology or similar.

The results of your research will be published in the form of international scientific articles in which you will be expected to act as both principal and coauthor.

The successful candidate will be expected to contribute to developing the research environment at the unit and within the project and will therefore be required to have a high level of attendance within the unit.

Admission requirements for postdoctoral studies are a PhD or overseas degree deemed to be equivalent. Specific requirements for this position are a PhD in a relevant discipline and that the applicant has not previously been employed more than a year as a postdoc in the same or a related field of study at Umeå University.

Primary consideration will be given to those who have completed their degree no more than three years prior to the deadline for applications.