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Digital Humanities

There is growing interest in employing computationally intensive research methods in the Humanities and using HPC to expand the possibilities for research.

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Overview

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

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 digital research as well as 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.

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 -Position Vacant
  • 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

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