UCD Post-Doc in Digital Humanities/Info Retrieval Lvl 1 or 2

EURAXESS Ireland; Dublin; Hybrid; EUR 42,000 - 54,000; Full time

Job summary

University College Dublin invites applications for a full-time, three-year postdoctoral fellowship in Digital Humanities/Information Retrieval within the School of English, Drama and Film. The project PanAsia explores anticolonial periodical culture across Southeast Asia, with aims to locate corpora, build a searchable database, and analyze cross-textual networks.

Initial PD1/PD2 distinctions apply; closing date is 18 November 2026.

Qualifications

• PhD required or near-completion with strong research track
• Experience in digital humanities or information retrieval preferred
• Familiarity with multilingual corpora and OCR/NLP workflows

Responsibilities

• Locate multilingual periodical corpus and obtain permissions to publish
• Design and implement a searchable/machine-readable database of corpus parts
• Identify intertextual exchanges and cross-reference across the corpus
• Identify reprinted or syndicated articles across corpus
• Identify periodical fiction within the corpus

Skills

Information Retrieval

OCR

NLP

LLMs

Machine Translation

Multilingual AI

Database Design

Structured Data Management

Education

PhD in relevant field

Job description

Organisation/Company University College Dublin Research Field Information science » Other Information science » Other Researcher Profile Recognised Researcher (R2) Application Deadline 19 Nov 2026 - 03:50 (UTC) Country Ireland Type of Contract Temporary Job Status Full-time Is the job funded through the EU Research Framework Programme? Not funded by a EU programme Is the Job related to staff position within a Research Infrastructure? No

Offer Description

Applications are invited for a temporary post of a UCD Post-doctoral Research Fellow in Digital Humanities/Information Retrieval Level 1 or 2 within UCD School of English, Drama and Film.

Applications are invited for a full-time, three-year postdoctoral fellowship to join a team working on a European Research Council-funded project entitled `Anticolonialism, Pan-Asianism, and Periodical Culture in Southeast Asia, c. 1850-1920' (PanAsia).

Spanning three European empires (French, British, and Dutch) and five interconnected port cities (Singapore, Penang, Rangoon, Batavia, and Saigon), PanAsia is a five-year (2027-2032) study of the newspapers, journals, and magazines of nineteenth and early twentieth-century Southeast Asia (c. 1850-1920). The project's primary objectives are, first, to compare the production of anticolonial periodical media by colonised peoples in multiple languages across the five maritime sites; second, to uncover transimperial and/or transnational print networks of anticolonial resistance between colonised peoples across the region; and third, to investigate how pan-Asian or shared Asian cultural values were used to mobilise anticolonial thinking and praxis.

In its first stage, PanAsia will focus on a) locating the relevant multilingual periodical corpus and obtaining permissions to publish or republish that corpus on the project website; b) designing and implementing a searchable and machine-readable database of relevant parts of the corpus; c) identifying and cross-referencing intertextual exchange within the corpus; d) identifying reprinted and/or syndicated articles across the corpus; and e) identifying periodical fiction across the corpus.

Appointment on the above range will be dependent upon qualifications and experience.

Closing date: 12:00 noon (local Irish time) on 18 November 2026.

The PD1 position is intended for early stage researchers, either just after completion of a PhD or for someone entering a new area for the first time. If you have already completed your PD1 stage in UCD or will soon complete a PD1, or you are an external applicant whose total Postdoctoral experience, inclusive of the duration of the advertised post, would exceed 4 years, you should not apply and should refer to PD2 posts instead.

The PD2 post is intended for researchers that have completed PD1. As with the PD1, if you have already completed your PD2 stage in UCD or will soon complete a PD2, or your total Postdoctoral experience, inclusive of the duration of the advertised post, would exceed 6 years, you should not apply and should refer to Research Fellow posts instead.

Information Retrieval and Extraction, Optical Character Recognition (OCR), Natural Language Processing (NLP), Large Language Models (LLMs), Machine Translation and Multilingual AI, Database Design and Structured Data Management