We are happy to announce that the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL) has been approved to host two twelve-week undergraduate Mitacs Globalink Internships for May–July 2023:
- Digital Scholarship Internship: Open Scholarship and Digital Humanities
- Digital Scholarship Internship: Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons and Digital Humanities Training
Short project descriptions are included below. Internships will be based in the ETCL at the University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, under the supervision of the lab’s director, Dr. Ray Siemens. As per Mitacs’ regulations, applicants must be enrolled as a full-time student in an undergraduate or combined undergraduate/Master’s degree granting program in an official Mitacs partner country: Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Mexico, Pakistan, South Korea, Taiwan, Tunisia, Ukraine, the United Kingdom, or the United States. For successful applicants, Mitacs provides round-trip airfare to Canada; stipends for housing, food, and incidentals; and health insurance, among other supports.
Applications are due to Mitacs on September 22nd 2022 via their website. To read a full description of each position, search for its title in the Mitacs Globalink Projects page.
Digital Scholarship Internship: Open Scholarship and Digital Humanities
Project ID 28913
This internship will be hosted in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL; etcl.uvic.ca), U Victoria, and will consist of two main parts. The first is concerned with researching interrelated themes of open scholarship, digital humanities, and knowledge creation. This project will lead to a better understanding of emerging trends and potential applications of digital humanities and open scholarship in public contexts. By carrying out this work, the intern will also learn about open-access academic publishing and, as a key outcome, will co-author research with the ETCL team that will be published with Open Scholarship Press. The second part of the internship will involve assisting the ETCL team with the organization of the 2023 Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI; dhsi.org). DHSI 2023 will welcome ~500-750 participants for 2 weeks of learning, teaching, and sharing cutting-edge digital humanities work via week-long training courses, paper sessions, lunchtime talks, and institute lectures from prominent scholars at the University of Victoria (online and in-person). The intern will have a chance to develop deeper knowledge and skills in digital humanities and open scholarship by participating in DHSI courses and events.
Digital Scholarship Internship: Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS) Commons and Digital Humanities Training
Project ID 28914
This internship will be hosted in the Electronic Textual Cultures Lab (ETCL; etcl.uvic.ca), U Victoria. The intern will work on two major projects, the Canadian Humanities and Social Sciences (HSS Commons; inke.ca/canadian-hss-commons) and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI; dhsi.org). The Canadian HSS Commons is an in-development, national-scale, bilingual network for Canadian HSS researchers to share, access, re-purpose, and develop scholarly projects, publications, educational resources, data, and tools. The intern will assist with the testing of the platform. The second part of the internship will involve assisting the ETCL team with the organization of the 2023 Digital Humanities Summer Institute. DHSI 2023 will welcome ~500-750 participants for 2 weeks of learning, teaching, and sharing cutting-edge digital humanities work via week-long training courses, paper sessions, lunchtime talks, and institute lectures from prominent scholars at the University of Victoria (online and in-person). The intern will have a chance to develop deeper knowledge and skills in digital humanities and open scholarship by participating in DHSI courses and events.