The Faculty of Humanities offers the opportunity of a lectureship in New Media and Digital Culture. We offer the opportunity to teach in a dynamic academic environment in which new didactic methods are developed and where you will receive support for further career development. The Media and Information and New Media programs are taught in English.
Additional didactical training can also be part of the appointment. Based on the candidate's educational portfolio, previously acquired competences will be taken into consideration.

Job description

The department of Media Studies, new media and digital culture team, is looking for 2 to 3 lecturers. The ideal candidates would have considerable knowledge of the study of New Media and Digital Culture in the humanities, especially in the areas of digital methods and critical internet culture. He or she will also have demonstrable affinity with the areas of media arts, media history, media theory and social media critique. Up-to-date Internet skills are essential, as is current knowledge of digital culture as evidenced by active participation in online culture and digital media scholarship. Practical experience in working analytically with online platforms (e.g., Wikipedia, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube) and web-based applications and tools (e.g., social media analytics) is highly desirable.

The new media and digital culture team is part of the Media Studies department and concerns itself with research strategies for the critical study of Internet culture. The Lecturers will teach mainly on the bachelor's degree level, in courses concerned with such topics as data journalism, media theory, new media practice, digital methods, media history as well as contemporary themes in digital culture, all in the program of Media and Information.

Candidates for the position ideally would have a demonstrable new media research agenda as well as a track record in academic publishing.

• Working on a PhD, preferably in the humanities, with a completed and/or accepted proposal as well as completed chapters / published articles;
• capacity to work in multi-disciplinary teams of information designers, programmers and new media analysts, evidenced by e.g. leading a project at a Digital Methods Summer or Winter School;
• familiarity with software for data analysis;
• experience in research and excellent research skills, evidenced by publications in renowned international academic journals / edited volumes;
• several years of teaching experience at the university level and demonstrable didactic abilities and / or training, evidenced by an educational portfolio;
• experience in an academic position where research and teaching are combined;
• affinity with the use of ICTs in academic education;capable of functioning at all levels in more than one programme of study;
• organisational experience and skills;
• reliable team worker;
• thorough knowledge of Dutch and English; non-native Dutch speakers are requested to achieve competency in Dutch within two years.

There are 2 to 3 positions available for 22,8 to 30,4 hours per week [0,6 to 0,8 fte] depending on Faculty budgets. The appointment will be on a temporary basis for a period of 18 months (starting 1 February 2020). The gross monthly salary will range from €2,709 (scale 10) to €4.978 (scale 11), based on a full-time appointment (38 hours a week). The Collective Labour Agreement of Dutch Universities is applicable.

University of Amsterdam

With over 5,000 employees, 30,000 students and a budget of more than 600 million euros, the University of Amsterdam (UvA) is an intellectual hub within the Netherlands. Teaching and research at the UvA are conducted within seven faculties: Humanities, Social and Behavioural Sciences, Economics and Business, Law, Science, Medicine and Dentistry. Housed on four city campuses in or near the heart of Amsterdam, where disciplines come together and interact, the faculties have close links with thousands of researchers and hundreds of institutions at home and abroad.  

The UvA’s students and employees are independent thinkers, competent rebels who dare to question dogmas and aren’t satisfied with easy answers and standard solutions. To work at the UvA is to work in an independent, creative, innovative and international climate characterised by an open atmosphere and a genuine engagement with the city of Amsterdam and society.