Tenure-Track Position in Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, and Education (anglophone programs)

**Posting Reason:** New Position **Job Family:** Academic Leadership and Faculty **Union affiliation:** APUO **Faculty/Department:** Faculty of Education\_FT **Campus:** Main Campus **Date Posted (YYYY/MM/DD):** 2026/11/05 **Applications must be received** **BEFORE** **(YYYY/MM/DD):** As part of the expansion of our research programs, the Faculty of Education at the University of Ottawa invites applications for one tenure track position. The Faculty of Education is located on the unceded ancestral territories of the Anishinaabe-Algonquin people in the heart of the nation's capital. With approximately sixty professors, we offer an exceptional intellectual environment to students, educational researchers, and professors. This recruitment reflects the current Faculty of Education’s strategic plan, which emphasizes social and ecological justice, well-being, and excellence and innovation in teaching and research. We are seeking to fill a tenure-track position for an Assistant Professor whose research focuses on Digital Transformation, Artificial Intelligence, and Education. We seek an innovative and forward-thinking scholar whose research advances understanding of how artificial intelligence, digital technologies, data, and computational systems are transforming education, learning, and society. We are particularly interested in candidates whose work moves beyond the application of existing technologies in classrooms, and engages substantively with the technical, computational, social, ethical, and systemic dimensions of digital transformation in Education. Areas of interest may include, but are not limited to, digital and AI literacies; AI and wellbeing; educational data and learning analytics; computational and digital research methodologies; socio-technical systems; learning design and assessment in AI-enabled environments; AI and creative processes; and responsible, ethical, and environmentally sustainable approaches within post-digital Education systems. We welcome diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives and are particularly interested in candidates whose work demonstrates strong potential to build interdisciplinary research collaborations and attract external research funding. The successful candidate will be expected to develop an ambitious, externally funded program of research; contribute to graduate research training; collaborate across disciplinary and institutional boundaries; and provide leadership in an emerging area of national and international significance. Candidates with expertise in computational methods, programming, large-scale educational data, learning analytics, digital methodologies, experimental or quasi-experimental designs, or other innovative approaches to studying complex educational systems are particularly encouraged to apply. **Duties** : The functions of a member of the academic faculty include, in varying proportions: a) teaching activities; b) scholarly activities in the form of rese