Daily Archives: 25 July 2017

UQ Development Fellowships – Call For Applications

The University of Queensland Development Fellowships aim to foster development of the most promising early career researchers and retain mid-career and senior academic staff of exceptional calibre at the University. By investing in the best and brightest talent across all career levels, the UQ Development Fellowships facilitate a trajectory of continued excellence and impact in research, teaching and service at UQ. In doing so, the fellowships advance UQ’s strategic objectives in the pillars of Discovery, Learning and Engagement and develop elite professionals who create change in society in multi-dimensional ways.

UQ Development Fellowships may be applied for and awarded funding for up to a maximum of three years full-time, with funding provided centrally in combination with the host Faculty/Institute and/or School/Centre, as per the scheme Guidelines.  Fellowships may also be held on a part-time basis (for family/carers or illness/disability) up to a maximum of four years.

For more information, please visit: http://www.uq.edu.au/research/research-management/uq-fellowships.

Applications close on 8 September, 2017.

Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Digital Humanities Workshop @ UWA – Call For Expressions of Interest

Postgraduate and Early Career Researcher Digital Humanities Workshop

Sponsored by UWA Learning and Teaching Performance Initiative Grant and CMEMS
University Club of Western Australia, The University of Western Australia

Date: Saturday 16 June, 2018

More info: http://www.historyofemotions.org.au/events/digital-humanities-workshop
This full-day workshop for postgraduates and ECRs provides an opportunity to explore and gain familiarity with some of the key techniques and methodologies of computational research in the humanities, with a focus on the needs of medievalists and early modernists. It is structured around a supportive lab-based environment, learning from scholars with ongoing digital humanities projects in the history of emotions.

Speakers:

  • Dr Jane-Heloise Nancarrow is an early career researcher in medieval studies at The University of Western Australia, examining digital visualisation in cultural heritage, spolia, and the legacy of Rome in the middle ages.
  • Dr Michael Ovens is an early career researcher at The University of Western Australia, working on a series of collaborative projects related to the use of virtual reality in teaching and learning.
  • Dr James Smith is a Visiting Research Fellow at the Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub, working on a project entitled ‘Conduits of Faith: Deep Mapping Medieval Spiritual Waterscapes’.
  • Dr Deborah Thorpe is EU COFUND Trinity College Dublin Long Room Hub Fellow, working on a project entitled ‘Old Hands: A Palaeographical Study of Ageing Medieval and Early Modern Scribes’.

Due to limited access to the technologies involved, this workshop will be limited to 20 participants.

Applicants should submit an expression of interest in attending at this stage to emotions@uwa.edu.au.