University Lecturer – Digital Humanities

About the role

The Faculty of Arts at the University of Helsinki seeks a permanent University Lecturer in Digital Humanities. The position will be based in the Department of Digital Humanities and will support the interdisciplinary Master’s Programme in Linguistic Diversity and Digital Humanities (LingDig).

Key responsibilities

• Develop and deliver curriculum on digital and computational methods for the Faculty of Arts.
• Engage students from diverse disciplines, creating pathways into computational research.
• Collaborate with research groups on projects involving large‑scale textual, bibliographic and cultural‑heritage data, AI, high‑performance computing and multimodal methods.
• Design and supervise technically demanding student projects and learning environments.

Required profile

• Strong teaching orientation with a record of research‑based teaching and curriculum development.
• Ability to integrate expertise from digital humanities or related humanities, social science, information or computational fields into a digital‑humanities teaching environment.
• Commitment to advancing computational literacy and evaluative understanding of coding practices.

Required skills

• Programming proficiency in Python and R.
• Version control using Git.
• Use of Jupyter notebooks for research and teaching.
• Experience with AI methods, quantitative data handling and high‑performance computing.

What we offer

• An internationally connected research and teaching environment.
• Access to FIN‑CLARIAH, DARIAH‑FI, and the Helsinki Digital Humanities Hackathon.
• Opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration across the Faculty of Arts.