Postdoctoral position in digital heritage at the Department of Communication, Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen

Fixed term two-year postdoctoral position as part of the funded project ‘Missing, Distorted or Normalized? The Impact of Large-Scale Datafication of Archival Material’ from 1 December 2026.

Introduction

The researcher will be part of the project Missing, Distorted or Normalized? The Impact of Large-Scale Datafication of Archival Material. The MiDiN-DatA project investigates how, human and AI based methods for turning archival documents into data, shape future historical narratives. Funded by the Augustinus Foundation through its Research in Cultural Heritage initiative, the project runs from May 2026 to April 2029. It is led by the National Archives in collaboration with the University of Copenhagen.

The researcher will join the research team at Department of Communication, primarily in work package 4, led by associate professor Henriette Roued. In wp4,



the focus will be on examining the human involvement in crowdsourcing and use of transcribed and datafied archival collections, through quantitative and qualitative methods, e.g. para data from transcription platforms and surveys/focus groups with various heritage practice communities.

Duties And Responsibilities

We seek someone with expertise in the wider field of digital heritage who will be responsible for carrying out independent as well as cooperative research within the frame of the grant. They will be part of a larger collaboration of researchers from the university’s Saxo Institute and the Danish National Archives, who are working on several projects aimed at understanding and creating large scale heritage datasets (e.g. Mapping Freedom, Widows, NordHistPop and HisPeR, - see National Archives.

There will be regular research and outreach activities where the research team engages in cross-disciplinary discussions. There is no teaching associated with this position.

Qualification

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