About DDH
The Department of Digital Humanities (DDH) is an academic department in the School of Arts and Humanities at King's College London. Formerly called the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, DDH is an international leader in the application of technology in the arts and humanities, and in the social sciences.
The primary objective of DDH is to study the possibilities of computing for arts and humanities scholarship and, in collaboration with local, national and international research partners across the disciplines, to design and build applications which implement these possibilities, in particular those which produce online research publications.
DDH is involved in typically more than 30 major research projects at any one time, with funding from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), the Leverhulme Trust and the Andrew W Mellon Foundation. These research projects are highly collaborative in nature and work across disciplines, institutions and national and international boundaries.
DDH offers undergraduate modules and a number of different programmes at post-graduate level. DDH runs its own MA in Digital Humanities, is responsible for the MA programme in Digital Culture and Society* and co-manages the MA in Digital Asset Management with the Centre for e-Research. It also runs a PhD in Digital Humanities, which we believe was the first programme of its kind in the world.
DDH hosts seminars, conferences and colloquia, has an active programme for visiting fellows and welcomes collaboration of all kinds in the digital humanities. Additionally, DDH participates or provides home for a number of major activities that have a focus beyond the College. You can read more specifically about this in the Affiliated Activities section of this website.
*MA Digital Culture and Society was formerly known as Digital Culture and Technology