RESEARCH PROFILE
- Research income: £13m over the last five years.
- Current number of academic staff: 9.
- Current number of research students: 9.
- Recent publications: • Humanities Computing. • The Collected Works of Thomas Middleton. • Supporting Annotation as a Scholarly Tool - Experiences From the Online Chopin Variorum Edition. • Digital Preservation. • Lost Theatre and Performance Traditions in Greece and Italy.
- Current research projects: • Prosopography of Anglo-Saxon England. • Jane Austen's Holograph Printed Manuscripts. • Inscriptions of Aphrodisias. • Out of the Wings - Spanish and Spanish American Theatres in Translation: A Virtual Environment for Research and Practice • The Body and Mask: Ancient Theatre Space.
KEY FACTS
Student destinations
A research degree in the digital humanities will equip you to make substantial and original contributions to any field or activity in which computing is applied to the study, conservation or presentation of cultural artifacts. Because the degree privileges human knowledge and cultural production rather than the tools used to study these things, it will also prepare you to offer powerfully creative resistance to computing in its present state and so to help advance it in the best possible way. The degree is thus highly relevant to further work in higher education and the cultural sector.
Head of group/division
Professor Andrew Prescott
Duration
Expected to be: Three years FT, four-six years PT.
Location
Strand Campus.
Year of entry 2012
Offered by
School of Arts and Humanities
Department of Digital Humanities
Closing date
None. However, candidates also making applications for AHRC or Graduate School funding (deadline 1st February 2012) must already have submitted an application to the programme via MyApplication' (please see postgraduate funding pages of KCL website for furthe
Intake
No set number.
Fees
CONTACTS
Contact information
Postgraduate Officer, Centre for Arts & Sciences Admissions (CASA)
tel: +44 (0) 20 7848 2736
fax: +44 (0) 20 7848 7200
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RESEARCH DESCRIPTION
Research is methodological, interdisciplinary, and collaboratively supervised. It focuses on the intersection of digital tools and methods with one or more artefacts or processes studied in the humanities or interpretative social sciences. It varies in emphasis on practical, experimental and theoretical work. Modelling may be used to raise the epistemological question (how we know what we somehow know), to explore implications of evidence too abundant, fragmentary, elusive or complex for other approaches or to develop entirely new views of a subject. Theoretical models may be developed for poorly understood or emergent digital phenomena. Examples include reconstruction of historical persons from scattered evidence; imagining of diasporic communities online; modelling of literary context; exploration of the relationship between verbal description and visual representation; or formation of identity in online games.; or investigation of Victorian grass-roots politics through the vocabulary of speeches.
Staff interests associated with the research programme and its research groups
Interests:
Project management, databases, text mark-up and electronic publishing, computing in historical studies, digital library research.
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+44 (0)20 7848 2739
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Ancient Greek and Roman drama and its influence, advanced visualisation techniques eg to explore 'theatrical' aspects of Pompeian frescos and Roman domestic environments, editor of Didaskalia providing visual resources of ancient drama.
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020 7848 2719
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Text markup and analysis tools, web based electronic publishing, humanities applications for databases.
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020 7848 2680
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Scholarly editing, 17th-century English literature, 20th-century American literature, theory of digital texts.
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+44 (0)20 7848 2453
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020 7848 2980
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Ancient theatre, the application of advanced information technology, especially 3D visualisation, to the research of historic theatre sites and stage settings, as well as modern theatres and more broadly material cultural heritage.
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Tim is a Senior Lecturer at King's College London (beginning January 2011). He is the author of Hacking: digital media and technological determinism, Activism!: direct action, hacktivism and the future of society and, with Paul Taylor, of Hacktivism and Cyberwars. He is currently working (and playing) in online persistent worlds, exploring communicative practices in online and offline life. He has published work on social movements, hackers, Pokemon, the culture and politics of the Internet and social theory. He is a co-founder and until recently an editor of Social Movement Studies: journal of social, cultural and political protest.
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+44 (0)20 7848 1100
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Literary and linguistic computing, Ovidian studies, meta-textual representation, humanities computing.
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+44 (0)20 7848 2784
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ACADEMIC ENTRY REQUIREMENTS
General entry advice
An MA degree in the humanities or social sciences, with a mark of Distinction or high Merit, or an overseas equivalent. In exceptional circumstances, applicants holding a first class or good upper second class Honours degree (or overseas equivalent) may be admitted. Applicants must demonstrate mastery of the academic background deemed relevant to the research proposed.
APPLYING TO KING'S
To apply for graduate study at King's you will need to complete our graduate online application form. Applying online makes applying easier and quicker for you, and means we can receive your application faster and more securely.
King's does not normally accept paper copies of the graduate application form as applications must be made online. However, if you are unable to access the online graduate application form, please contact the relevant admissions/School Office at King's for advice.
APPLICATION PROCEDURE
Prior to formal application students develop a cogent research proposal in correspondence with the Director of Research, Professor McCarty. On his approval, formal application may proceed. A preliminary visit to the department in London is highly desirable but not required. Normally studies begin in the autumn semester. If advised to proceed, applications should be made by early January, particularly if funding is required. Admission to the PhD programme is initially for the MPhil, but we expect students to transfer to the PhD after an appropriate period, by agreement with their supervisor, the departmental Research Committee and the College.
PERSONAL STATEMENT & SUPPORTING INFORMATION
No information required.
FUNDING
AHRC, Graduate School and School of Arts & Humanities studentships and bursaries, self-funded.
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