Opportunities

Cambridge Digital Humanities [23 Nov, info sessions, online]

Curious about MPhil and PhD places at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) next year?

Are you curious about MPhil and PhD places at Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) ?

Find out what’s on offer at our final virtual info sessions of the year:

šŸ—“ļø Monday 23 November, 14:00 – 14:55
MPhil in Digital Humanities
Register on Teams: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/70e446e5-4c78-46b8-9612-b8e5e61e52c1@49a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9?source=copyLinkLegacyShareLinkDialog

šŸ—“ļø Monday 23 November, 15:00 – 15:55
PhD in Digital Humanities
Register on Teams: https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/da833397-bb39-49fc-899d-419e10c67445@49a50445-bdfa-4b79-ade3-547b4f3986e9?source=copyLinkLegacyShareLinkDialog

Members of our teaching and professional services team will be on hand to give you an overview of the course and field any questions you might have. You can prepare beforehand by exploring our MPhil webpage (www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/mphil) and PhD web page (www.cdh.cam.ac.uk/phd).

There’s no such thing as a silly question šŸ’”

ScholarTHON [2/3 Dec, Programme Announcement]

ScholarTHON: Organising Knowledge

The programme is out for ScholarTHON: Organising Knowledge, a free two-day research event at Cardiff University on Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 December 2026.

ScholarTHON adapts the hackathon for arts and humanities research. You bring a research question and work on it in a small group with an embedded Research Software Engineer. This time we look at how humanities knowledge is organised: ontologies, metadata, graph thinking, OpenRefine and Linked Open Data. Whether these are skills you already have or ones youā€™d like to pick up, the two days will help you turn a research question into a model of the knowledge behind it that others can link and reuse.

Day One covers knowledge representation, ontologies and graph thinking for humanities data, and Day Two has a roundtable on infrastructure for digital arts and humanities.

Practical details:

  • Wednesday 2 and Thursday 3 December, Cardiff University
  • Free, and no coding experience needed
  • Open to researchers at every career stage, librarians, archivists, curators, Wikimedians and other GLAM professionals
  • Up to five Ā£200 bursaries for travel, accommodation, childcare and other costs
  • The winning team receives ten hours of dedicated collaboration with a Research Software Engineer to take its ideas further

šŸ“š Programme: https://blog.humanities.org.uk/2026/11/10/frame-model-connect-whats-on-at-scholarthon-in-cardiff/

šŸ“ Register by Wednesday 18 November: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/two-day-scholarthon-on-organising-knowledge-tickets-2003759118463

Questions: giovanna.dimartino@anthro.ox.ac.uk

UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association [Call for Executive Committee members, now open]

Open call forĀ three new membersĀ to join the UK-IE DHA’s newĀ Executive Committee.

The UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Association is pleased to announce an open call for three new members to join our new Executive Committee.

As part of our ongoing work to formalise the Association’s governance structures, this appointment marks an important next step in implementing the governance proposal published in spring 2025. The new Executive Committee will formally succeed the current Collective and help guide the Association through its next phase of growth and development.

We are seeking to appoint:

  • Two General MembersĀ of the Executive Committee
  • One Digital Research Technical Professional (dRTP) or Early Career Representative

Applicants who identify as early career and/or dRTP are also welcome to apply for the general positions. We would particularly welcome applications from colleagues based in Ireland, Northern Ireland and Wales, as well as from groups currently underrepresented within the Association.

Executive Committee members will play a key role in shaping the future direction of the Association, including contributing to strategic planning, supporting community activities, participating in peer review processes, and helping to deliver initiatives that benefit the wider digital humanities community.

The call opens on 9 November 2026 (TODAY!) and closes on 18 December 2026 at 17:00 GMT. Appointments will be made in January 2027, with a staggered handover taking place during the spring.

If you are interested in contributing to the future of digital humanities across the UK and Ireland, we encourage you to submit an Expression of Interest.

Read the full call and apply here: 2026 Call for New Committee Members

PRONI – Digital Preservation Manager [Job Vacancy, Closing Date Nov 13th]

Digital Preservation Manager vacancy

DEPARTMENT: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland (PRONI) Department for Communities

SALARY: Ā£47,304 – Ā£49,515 (under review)

LOCATION: Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, 2 Titanic Boulevard, Titanic Quarter, Belfast, BT3 9HQ

Further appointments may be made from this competition should NICS positions become vacant which require the same eligibility criteria and have similar duties and responsibilities.

Completed application forms must be submitted no later than 12:00 noon (UK time) on Friday 13th November 2026.

Applications from Protestants, young people (people under the age of 35), people with a disability and people from minority ethnic communities are particularly welcomed for this post.

The Northern Ireland Civil Service is an Equal Opportunities Employer. 

ALL APPLICATIONS FOR EMPLOYMENT ARE CONSIDERED STRICTLY ON THE BASIS OF MERIT.

As part of our commitment to equality of opportunity we offer a Guaranteed Interview Scheme (GIS) for disabled applicants. Further information can be found in the Candidate Information Booklet.

For more information see: NIC

Post-doctoral position in information retrieval / digital humanities [UCD, closes 18 Nov]

UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow

Applications are invited for a full-time, three-year postdoctoral fellowship to join a team working on a European Research Council-funded project entitled ā€˜Anticolonialism, Pan-Asianism, and Periodical Culture in Southeast Asia, c. 1850-1920ā€™ (PanAsia).

Spanning three European empires (French, British, and Dutch) and five interconnected port cities (Singapore, Penang, Rangoon, Batavia, and Saigon), PanAsia is a five-year (2027-2032) study of the newspapers, journals, and magazines of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Southeast Asia (c. 1850-1920). The projectā€™s primary objectives are, first, to compare the production of anticolonial periodical media by colonised peoples in multiple languages across the five maritime sites; second, to uncover transimperial and/or transnational print networks of anticolonial resistance between colonised peoples across the region; and third, to investigate how pan-Asian or shared Asian cultural values were used to mobilise anticolonial thinking and praxis.

In its first stage, PanAsia will focus on a) locating the relevant multilingual periodical corpus and obtaining permissions to publish or republish that corpus on the project website; b) designing and implementing a searchable and machine-readable database of relevant parts of the corpus; c) identifying and cross-referencing intertextual exchange within the corpus; d) identifying reprinted and/or syndicated articles across the corpus; and e) identifying periodical fiction across the corpus.

More Information: https://universityvacancies.com/university-college-dublin/ucd-post-doctoral-research-fellow-level-1-or-2-ucd-school-of-english-drama-and-film-3-years