Digital Humanities

Considering a Digital Humanities PhD in the UK ? Seminar [Mar 9 @ 16:30 online]

Are you considering a Digital Humanities PhD?

You may be unsure about whether to apply to a dedicated DH programme or a discipline-specific one. You may be concerned that your technical skills won’t be adequate, or that you might need to learn quickly during your studies but without support. How do you choose a supervisor in such a broad field as DH, and does their technical experience outweigh their domain knowledge?

This online seminar, co-convened by the universities of Cambridge, Edinburgh, London and Manchester, aims to discuss these questions.

🔎 What is a Digital Humanities PhD?
🗓️ Monday 9 March
🕟 16:30-18:00
📍 Zoom
💻 Register online: https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/events/what-digital-humanities-phd

Speakers:
Jonathan Blaney (University of Cambridge)
Gabriel Bodard (University of London)
Ryan Heuser (University of Cambridge)
Lucia Michielin (The University of Edinburgh)
Luca Scholz (The University of Manchester)

This event is organised by the Digital Humanities Research Hub at the School of Advanced Study, University of London.

Demystifying Data Journals [Mar 10 @ 13:00, online]

Demystifying Data Journals: Experiences of data journal editors

Data journals are a format of publication that publish datasets or ‘data papers’ rather than conventional research articles. They offer a route to increase the visibility of research data outputs whilst also rewarding creators with a peer-reviewed publication, credit, and increased opportunity for citation (Walters, 2020). This event will feature presentations from researchers from a range of disciplines, in both STEM and the humanities, involved in editing data journals, who will share their experiences and advice with attendees. The event will introduce the concept of data journals and how they operate and explore best practices when submitting papers to these journals or developing data journal publications. There will be opportunities for questions and discussions throughout the event. This event is delivered by the N8 Centre of Excellence in Computationally Intensive Research (N8 CIR) and attendance is open to anyone with an interest in learning more about data journals.

Walters, W.H. (2020) ‘Data journals: incentivizing data access and documentation within the scholarly communication system’, Insights: the UKSG journal, 33(1), p. 18.

Agenda

13:00 – 13:05: Introduction and welcome

13:05 – 14:25: Talks and Q&A session

  • Prof. Vanessa Higgins, University of Manchester. Editorial Board Member for the Research Data Journal for the Humanities and Social Sciences.
  • Judith Winters, University of York. Editor of Internet Archaeology.
  • Dr Derek Gatherer, Lancaster University. Editorial Board, Scientific Data.
  • Dr Laura Sbaffi, University of Sheffield. Section Editor for PLOS Digital Health and Associate Editor for JASIST

14:25 – 14:30: Final comments

DARIAH-IE Visits UCC [March 19th, 2026]

Save the Date ! DARIAH-IE visits UCC on March 19th, 2026

DARIAH-IE will be continuing our visits to Irish HEIs with a trip to University College Cork on March 19th. We are looking forward to meeting with colleagues engaged in digitally-enabled arts and humanities activities across the university – from practitioners, researchers, academics to those involved in research support services.

The visit to UCC will include an Open Session with a short presentation on DARIAH and Ireland’s national node DARIAH-IE, followed by a Q&A with Joan Murphy (DARIAH-IE National Manager) and Prof Jennifer Edmond (DARIAH-IE National Coordinator). During the Q&A attendees will be given the opportunity to discuss their needs and wants from the national node in a relaxed and informal way. A number of smaller meetings will also take place.

Further details of the day will be communicated shortly, but if you have any questions in the meantime please contact joan.y.murphy@tcd.ie directly.

Location: North Wing Council Room (first floor, Main Quad)

Time: 11-12:30

Event: Open Session – Q&A / discussion

Digital Humanities Congress 2026, Sheffield, UK [CfP closes March 2nd]

Digital Humanities Congress 2026 CfP

A reminder that the deadline to submit your proposals for the Digital Humanities Congress 2026 is approaching on Monday, 2nd March 2026.

Hosted by the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI) at the University of Sheffield, this biennial event is an opportunity to meet with researchers, technologists, and heritage professionals from across the digital humanities. Whether you are working on AI applications, 3D visualization, innovative digital editions or other areas of research, we want to hear from you.

Submit your proposal here: www.dhi.ac.uk/congress

Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections [Feb 17 @ 16:00 GMT online]

Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections

17 February (4:00 pm to 5:30 pm)

Join the Digital Humanities Research Hub (School of Advanced Study, University of London) for a fascinating discussion about ‘Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections’.

Registration: https://www.sas.ac.uk/digital-humanities-research-hub/events/gaps-silences-cultural-heritage-collections

The Digital Humanities Research Hub (School of Advanced Study, University of London) cordially invites you to the next session of their flagship seminar series on ‘The Fragile Record’.

We live in an age of abundant data — and yet, it remains strikingly fragile and incomplete. This seminar explores the topic of ‘Gaps and Silences in Cultural Heritage Collections.’ We will discuss issues of inclusivity and bias from an interdisciplinary perspective and examine uncertainty, privilege and power in digital archives. How do these factors influence which stories are told and how they are represented in cultural heritage collections and related research?

Please find below a short biography of the participants

Mandana Seyfeddinipur is Director of Endangered Languages Documentation Programme, formerly based at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London, and part of the CLARIN-UK Consortium. The programme moved to Berlin in 2021, and remains part of the CLARIN Knowledge Centre for Linguistic Diversity and Language Documentation (CKLD).

Andrea Kocsis is Chancellor’s Fellow in Humanities Informatics, at the University of Edinburgh. She comes from an interdisciplinary and international background, and in her research, she combines heritage studies with data and network science. 

Giulia Taurino, Ph.D. is a researcher, artist, and curator specialized in AI for the management and preservation of cultural heritage collections. Her research focuses on forms of content organization in online repositories and digital archives, cultural implications of algorithmic technologies, and applications of AI in the arts, heritage and museum sectors. Past and present affiliations include the NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science, the Alan Turing Institute AI & Arts Interest Group, Getty Research Institute, metaLAB (at) Harvard, MIT Data + Feminism Lab, Brown University’s Virtual Humanities Lab. 

Lucy Havens is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Khoury College of Computer Sciences at Northeastern University.  She received her PhD from the University of Edinburgh in 2024, where she investigated how machine learning could help archivists identify gender biases in descriptive metadata.  Her research interests include human-centered AI, gender bias and empowerment, and AI evaluation, with a focus on GLAM use cases.