Postdoctoral researcher in the field of coproduction and participatory practices

The University of Luxembourg is an international research university with a distinctly multilingual and interdisciplinary character. The University was founded in 2003 and counts more than 6,700 students and more than 2,000 employees from around the world. The University’s faculties and interdisciplinary centres focus on research in the areas of Computer Science and ICT Security, Materials Science, European and International Law, Finance and Financial Innovation, Education, Contemporary and Digital History. In addition, the University focuses on cross-disciplinary research in the areas of Data Modelling and Simulation as well as Health and System Biomedicine. Times Higher Education ranks the University of Luxembourg #3 worldwide for its “international outlook,” #20 in the Young University Ranking 2021 and among the top 250 universities worldwide.

The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C2DH) is a research centre for the study, analysis and public dissemination of contemporary history of Luxembourg and Europe with a particular focus on digital methods and tools for doing innovative historical research. It serves as a catalyst for innovative and creative scholarship and new forms of public dissemination and societal engagement with history.

The Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) is looking to hire one postdoctoral researcher to work on coproduction and participatory practices. The researcher will work under the direct supervision of Prof. Dr. Thomas Cauvin on two projects: Facing the Past. Public History for Stronger Europe (EuroPast, 70%) and Public History as the New Citizen Science of the Past (PHACS, 30%). Focusing on the production of history with a public perspective, public history has developed as one of the most dynamic international fields of the historical discipline.

EuroPast is an international research collaboration between Vilnius University, the Leibniz Centre for Contemporary History in Potsdam, Germany (ZZF), the Centre for European Studies at Lund University in Sweden (LU), and the Centre for Contemporary and Digital History in Luxembourg (C2DH). Its aim is to develop research, training, and networking to question to what extent public history can help to engage citizens in the co-production and communication of the past while maintaining ethical and methodological standards, strengthening social cohesion, resilience, and democracy in a digital age. The PHACS project develops participatory construction of history in cultural institutions and assess the impact on the narratives and participants.