PhD student in Art History focusing digital interfaces, participatory
practices, metadata, and visual heritage.
At the Department for Culture and Aesthetics Closing date: 15 May 2019.
The Department for Culture and Aesthetics is one of the biggest departments at
the Faculty of Humanities with about 140 employees and 1000 students. Art
History is located in the Manne Siegbahn-buildings together with History of
Ideas, Literature, Music studies and Theatre/Performance studies. Art History
as a research area is characterized by thematic, theoretical and chronological
breadth and depth, with more than thirty active PhD candidates, lecturers,
researchers and professors.
Subject area
Art History now announces one doctoral position linked to the research project
Sharing the Visual Heritage.Metadata, reuse and interdisciplinary research
funded by the Swedish Research Council 2019-2023. The person we seek should
have a master- or magister degree in art history, visual culture or the
equivalent combined with research interest and competences in digital
interfaces and/or the cultural heritage sector.
The employment is tied to the project yet the Ph.D. applicant will have the
opportunity to develop the PhD project in dialogue with the supervisors.
Successful candidates will be part of a research group including postdoctoral
scholars.
The research project Sharing the Visual Heritage. Metadata, reuse and
interdisciplinary research addresses the interconnected challenges: the lack of
metadata in culture heritage institution’s image collections, that results from
academic research are not returned to the image collections and the absence of
cross-disciplinary and cross-institutional collaborations. The overall purpose
of this project is therefore to strengthen participatory and interdisciplinary
research practices with the further aim of developing the production of
metadata in our visual heritage. In short this project will delineate methods
for open and participatory data to link the researchers’ collections (new
metadata) to existing collections, while also connecting different researchers.
This four year interdisciplinary project is performed by an art historian, a
computer and systems sciences researcher and experts from two cultural heritage
institutions in Sweden. See further:
www.metadataculture.se<http://www.metadataculture.se>
For more information and to apply, visit:
https://www.su.se/english/about/working-at-su/phd?rmpage=job&rmjob=8582&rmlang=UK
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