Job opportunities in the Department of Digital Humanities
The Department of Digital Humanities at King's College London currently has various job vacancies available, allowing an unprecedented opportunity to actually get involved in the practice of Digital Humanities, working on some exciting and challenging projects. We are equally interested in people coming from industry who want a change, and people with a background in informatics or computer science, as we are in people who have existing digital humanities experience.
Every research project within the department is characterised by innovation, and the successful candidate will be expected to develop technically imaginative, creative, and elegant solutions whilst at the same time sustaining an awareness of best practices and standards compliance.
Full details can be found on the Human Resources page: www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/index.php
The Department seeks an exceptional and creative Digital Humanities developer to join the Research and Development staff, contributing to the development work across two exciting projects: City Witness will create an interactive digital atlas of Swansea and 3D visualisations based on eleven witness testimonies describing the hanging of the Welshman William ‘Cragh’ in the late 13th century; and Schenker Documents Online, which is publishing the writings of the twentieth century's leading theorist of tonal music (see www.schenkerdokumente.org)www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13047
The Department seeks an exceptional and creative front-end web developer, with a passion for creating engaging user experiences, to join the Research and Development staff. The Department has built and hosts some 170 websites, of which around 35 are in active development at any one time. You will be involved in supporting work on both existing and new projects, collaborating on the design, customisation and maintenance of their web interfaces (both public facing and administrative), and ensuring consistently high standards of usability, performance and compatibility across the department’s websites. This is an exciting and varied position, which will involve working on front-end development and collaborating on aesthetic and functional design across a diverse selection of different websites and applications, ranging from bespoke web application frameworks designed to display large amounts of complex or unusual data, to customising off-the-shelf blogging and CMS software.
www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13049
The Department is looking for a highly motivated and sophisticated individual to work on the Leverhulme funding project entitled 'The transformation of Gaelic Scotland in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries'.Thisproject aims to explore the application of Social Network Analysis (SNA) against a database of medieval Scottish people created by the People of Medieval Scotland project (http://www.poms.ac.uk). This contains thousands of individual interactions in different contexts and geographic locations to reveal changing patterns and intensities in social relationships.
www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13033
The Department seeks an exceptional and creative Digital Humanities developer to join the Research and Development staff, contributing to the development work across two exciting projects: the Online Chopin Variorum Edition, a digital resource which will provide access to all the available primary sources of Chopin’s music via a pioneering user interface allowing bar-by-bar comparison of the content; and the Production and Reading of Music Sources, 1480 – 1530, which combines complex web-based cataloguing with image annotation tools and will present synthetic results to end users via sophisticated data visualisation functionality.
www.kcl.ac.uk/depsta/pertra/vacancy/external/pers_detail.php?jobindex=13015