University of Tampere, Faculty of Information Technology and Communication Sciences

Deadline: Jan. 30, 2020

The University of Tampere iSchool  seeks a highly motivated and accomplished academic who will be an active and innovative co-builder of the research and teaching area of Information Studies. The final profile of the position can be tailored according to your specific expertise and can include for example the following themes: information retrieval; information search; information systems science; information interaction; information architecture.

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University of Kentucky, School of Information Science

Deadline: March 1, 2020

The University of Kentuck iSchool has the following openings:

Assistant Professor (requisition #FE02207): The iSchool at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level with an anticipated start date of Aug. 16, 2020. Teaching responsibilities for this nine-month appointment include topics primarily in information technology as related to the information science environment. This could include, but is not limited to, databases, user design/user experience, and web development. While not required for this position, experience with health information/health librarianship is preferred. Candidates are expected to hold an earned Ph.D. or be in ABD status in library science, information science, or a related field at the time of the interview. The Ph.D. is required by Aug. 16, 2020, for the successful candidate to hold the rank of assistant professor and begin the probationary period toward tenure.

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Assistant Professor (requisition #FE02207): The iSchool at the University of Kentucky invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor level with an anticipated start date of Aug. 16, 2020. Teaching responsibilities for this nine-month appointment include topics primarily in information technology as related to the information science environment. This could include, but is not limited to, databases, user design/user experience, and web development. While not required for this position, experience with health information/health librarianship is preferred. Candidates are expected to hold an earned Ph.D. or be in ABD status in library science, information science, or a related field at the time of the interview. The Ph.D. is required by Aug. 16, 2020, for the successful candidate to hold the rank of assistant professor and begin the probationary period toward tenure.

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University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information

Deadline: Jan. 30, 2020

The University of Pittburgh iSchool seeks a visionary leader and scholar for the endowed Doreen E. Boyce Chair in Library and Information Science. This individual should demonstrate inspired leadership within the information profession and have a commitment to dynamic, cross disciplinary and collaborative research. The individual filing this endowed chair will be internationally recognized for research, education, and service at the confluence of information, technology, and human behavior, especially from a social perspective. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to, computing and information ethics, policy, and governance; theory and methods of knowledge reuse through data management, stewardship, and reproducibility; medical and health informatics, digital preservation and curation, modeling and decision making in interacting systems; as well as socio-technical systems digital equity, information seeking behavior in virtual and physical organizations and the nature of human interaction with information and data. Successful candidates must hold a PhD for this position as well as established impact and experience appropriate for appointment at the rank of professor.

University of Washington, Information School

Deadline: Jan. 5, 2019

The University of Washington Center for an Informed Public (CIP) invites applications for up to three CIP Postdoctoral Fellows who will be hired as Postdoctoral Scholars. UW CIP is a new multidisciplinary institute with a core mission aiming to resist strategic misinformation, promote an informed society, and strengthen democratic discourse. This is an opportunity to work closely with the Center’s co-founders and affiliate faculty, including sociologists, information scientists, computer scientists, and policy experts. 

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, School of Information Sciences

Deadline: see below

The University of Illinois seeks applicants for the following two endowed professorships.

Mildred M. Luther and Kathryn Luther Henderson Professorship in Preservation and Technical Services, tenured position at the rank of Associate or full Professor. Candidates must have a strong international reputation within this area. All specializations and perspectives within this broad area will be considered including but not limited to: cataloging and classification, standards, collection development and management, and preservation. Focus may be on print, digital, or other media. Application deadline Jan. 23, 2020. Learn more about this position

Professorship in the History of Libraries and the Information Professions, endowed, tenured position at the rank of Associate or full Professor. Candidates must have a strong international reputation within this area. All specializations and methodological perspectives within this broad area will be considered. Application deadline Jan. 3, 2020. Learn more about this position

Universite de Montreal, Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l’information

Deadline: Dec. 16, 2019

The Ecole de bibliotheconomie et des sciences de l’information (EBSI) of the Universite de Montreal invites applications for the full-time, tenure-track position of Assistant Professor in Information for the Health Sector. Demonstrated ability to provide high-level university instruction and supervision Expertise in one or more of the following: Information systems in the health sector; Systems and processes for strategic intelligence in the health sector; Information seeking and retrieval in the health sector; Management of information, knowledge, and data in the health sector; Information practices and uses in the health sector; Evidence-based practice in the health sector.

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Indiana University, School of Informatics and Computing

Deadline: Dec. 31, 2019

The Indiana University School of Informatics and Computing (SoIC) at IUPUI invites applications for an open-rank tenure-track or tenured faculty position in the Department of BioHealth Informatics (BHI), to serve as Director of the Health Informatics Program. The appointment will begin August 1, 2020 or when position is filled on the IUPUI campus. Candidates will be considered from all areas in health and biomedical informatics, including health informatics, clinical informatics, medical informatics and other informatics areas related to healthcare.

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University of Michigan, ICPSR

Deadline: Jan. 15, 2020

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) in the Institute for Social Research (ISR) at the University of Michigan invites applications for a faculty rank Assistant Research Scientist with a focus on education data. ICPSR maintains research and data archiving projects that advance social science research, while collaborating with other units at the University of Michigan and beyond. ICPSR Research faculty conduct independent research and contribute to the development of archival data collections, as well as extramural funded projects, to build data archiving infrastructure.

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George Mason University, Department of Information Sciences and Technology

Deadline: Dec. 12, 2019

The George Mason University Department of Information Sciences and Technology, within the Volgenau School of Engineering, invites applications for two tenure-track or tenured faculty positions beginning Fall 2020. Senior candidates with established records of outstanding research and excellent teaching will be eligible for tenured Associate Professor or Professor positions.

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University of Cincinnati, School of Information Technology

Deadline: Dec. 6, 2019

The University of Cincinnati iSchool seeks to hire two tenure-track Assistant Professors in one or two areas related to Information Technology including Data Technologies, Software Applications, IT Infrastructure, Game Development, Cybersecurity, and Applied Machine Learning, to start Fall 2020.

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