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Overview
Computationally Intensive Research (CIR) is now employed in many disciplines across the humanities, including anthropology, archaeology, classics, history, linguistics and languages, law, politics, literature, music, philosophy, religion, and the visual arts. Specific topics include:
- Corpus Linguistics
- Geographical Information Systems
- Digital footprint analytics
- Digital creative
- Cultural heritage preservation/dissemination
Academic Theme Leads
The Theme Leads for each institution are:
- Durham - Prof Alexandra Cristea , Professor, Department of Computer Science
- Lancaster - Prof Ian Gregory, Professor of Digital Humanities, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
- Leeds- Dr Mel Evans, Lecturer in English Language, School of English
- Liverpool -Dr Mark McGlashan Lecturer in English Language & Linguistics
- Manchester - Dr Luca Scholz, Lecturer in Digital Humanities and History, Art History and Cultural Practices
- Newcastle - Dr James Cummings, Reader in Digital Textual Studies and Late-Medieval Literature
- Sheffield - Michael Pidd, Director, The Digital Humanities Institute
- York- Dr Mike Stuart, Lecturer, Department of Philosophy
Useful links
- The Programming Historian Publishing novice-friendly, peer-reviewed tutorials that help humanists learn a wide range of digital tools, techniques, and workflows to facilitate research and teaching.
- DARIAH is a pan-European infrastructure for arts and humanities scholars working with computational methods. It supports both digital research and the teaching of digital research methods.
- DARIAH: Data Ethics in Cultural Heritage training materials. This resource aims to introduce the main aspects of data ethics in the cultural heritage domain.
- The Authority File Podcast features conversations regarding the lifecycle of scholarly communication with episodes exploring HSS Data. Join your host Bill Mickey and a rotating cast of librarians, technologists, authors, and other academic library luminaries as they chat about how scholarly content is created, preserved, and distributed.
The following should be of particular interest to those working in Digital Humanities:
- Data Sharing in the Humanities and Social Sciences: Current Landscape and Pressures
- The Benefits and Challenges of HSS Data Sharing: Community, Data Sets, and Privacy
- Why Humanities and Social Sciences Matter for Today’s AI Landscape
- New research software beginner guides supporting social science researchers The Software Sustainability Institute is delighted to share two new resources aimed at supporting social science researchers in building practical skills with research software. This information was made available on 5th August, 2025.
Connect with researchers across the N8
You asked for a mechanism to talk directly with researchers across the N8. To facilitate this we have created a dedicated N8 CIR Slack workspace where you can share recent publications and ideas you would like to find new collaboration partners for, discuss upcoming funding calls and suggest meetings and sandpit events you'd like us to host. Join us by clicking the link below or find out more on our webpage.
Join the N8 CIR Slack workspace
If you are having trouble signing in, go to https://n8cir.slack.com/ and select the 'Create an account' link in the top right-hand corner using your university email account.
This workspace is only available to those currently working or researching at Durham University, Lancaster University, the University of Leeds, the University of Liverpool, the University of Manchester, Newcastle University, the University of Sheffield or the University of York.