Maynooth University is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to work on the 'Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities' project based at the Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute (MUAHI).
Maynooth University is seeking to appoint a postdoctoral researcher to work on the Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities (FSFDH) project based at the Maynooth University Arts and Humanities Institute (MUAHI).
Full Stack Feminism is one of eleven research projects funded by the Irish Research Council (IRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council UK (AHRC) under the UK-Ireland Collaboration in the Digital Humanities Research Grants. The new research projects are part of an exciting partnership that will see Ireland and the UK bring together world-leading expertise in the Digital Humanities. The Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI) is proud to be a collaborator on three of these projects: Full Stack Feminism in Digital Humanities; Feminist Art Making Histories; and OS200: Digitally Re-Mapping Ireland's Ordnance Survey Heritage.
FSFDH will embed intersectional feminist methodologies in Digital Humanities (DH). It will achieve this by developing an interoperable 'Full Stack Feminist' (FSF) methodology and toolkit. It develops this approach by focusing on three areas, referred to as stacks: data and archives; infrastructure, tools and code; access, experience and integration. The project uses 'full stack' as a metaphor, with the understanding that this term has specific uses and meaning in software development – they use it in a similar but not precisely equivalent way. Their high-level objective is to highlight and address specific points in project development that, often unconsciously, manifest inequalities or bias in, for example, data models, archival descriptions, access rights, and tool functionality.
FSFDH will have a substantial impact on the local cultures of the partner universities (Maynooth University in Ireland and Sussex University in the UK) by building the capacity to develop partnerships with cultural and heritage institutions, organisations, and practitioners: in Dublin and Cork via the relationship with the Irish Museum of Modern Art, the Digital Repository of Ireland, and the Cork LGBT Archive; in Sussex via the engagement with multiple creative companies and digital artists (inc. Women Who Code); in Cambridge via the inclusion of collections and material culture specialists; and together, via its international networks. An additional impact of the project lies in capacity development in relation to digital practitioners (e.g., digital artists, digital archivists, technicians, developers) and their capacity to create new Digital Humanities projects, resources, and spaces that are more inclusive.
The project's main objective is to develop an interoperable FSF methodology that software teams, programme managers, database designers, digital arts practitioners, data scientists, and more, can review and apply to their work. This will enable Digital Humanities practitioners to re-evaluate the structures in which they work and will create new intersectional Digital Humanities spaces. FSFDH wants Digital Humanities practitioners to consider a feminist methodology throughout their work and the development life-cycle – not as a post-reflection. In this sense, they want to expand the field of Digital Humanities by engaging with new contributors and fostering new ways of developing projects – changing what they produce and how they produce it. FSF is positioned in pluralities and in collective narratives and data; working in collaboration with community-led organisations and amplifying marginalised voices is a central priority and focus.
Application Instructions:
Apply by 23:30hrs (local Irish time) on Monday, 8th November 2021.
Please note all applications must be made via the Maynooth University Online Recruitment Portal at the following link:
https://www.maynoothuniversity.ie/human-resources/vacancies
Find out more on the Maynooth University website.
