I visited HUMlab in August, and really enjoyed my stay. Patrik Svensson, their director, just sent word of these post doc stipends they’re advertising now in the digital humanities – might be interesting to some of you? They’re open to anyone with a recent PhD from any country other than Sweden – I guess they figure they already have enough Swedes in Sweden.

I don’t think I’ve heard of similar programs before, though, where a post. doc. is specifically only for international applicants.

2 thoughts on “post. doc. in Sweden in digital humanities?

  1. Patrik Svensson

    Thanks for posting about the postdoc program, Jill. We always enjoy having you visit. Remember the seminar from about four years ago (realmedia) :)?

    rtsp://www2.humlab.umu.se:7070/archive/humlabseminariet/20021120_jill_walker.rm

    The reason why it is an international program is partly administrative/legal and partly because we hope to have an inflow of talented international researchers (a kind of internationalization I guess). This is not to say that are not high-quality researchers in Sweden, of course, but rather that this particular program has an international focus. There are other parts of this relatively big initative that are more domestic.

  2. Jill

    I like the idea of earmarking one scholarship for international applicants – most of us could do with more global input.

    And it’s amazing that it’s FOUR YEARS since I visited you guys first…

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