Professor of Information and Communication Studies 
University College Dublin

University College Dublin is seeking to fill the Professorship of Information and Communication Studies to take a lead within the the School in its goal to grow its research, teaching, and international visibility. The successful candidate will be offered apermanent full-time Professorship in the UCD School of Information and Communication Studies. The successful candidate will be expected to take on the responsibilities of head of school for a term at or shortly after the commencement of the appointment.

Candidates with appropriate expertise in any area of the broad field of Information and Communication Studies will be considered. Current areas of research in the School include human-computer interaction, digital curation, cultural heritage informatics, data/information ethics, information architecture, foundations of information studies, information behaviour, data practices, and information literacy.

Note: It is envisaged interviews will take place in week commencing in late February 2016. The appointed Professor will ideally commence in post on 1 September 2016. Details can be found at: http://www.ucd.ie/hr/jobvacancies/ (click on external positions and search for academic posts in Information and Communication Studies).

Informal queries can be addressed to Kalpana Shankar at [email protected]