Expertise

The Department of Digital Humanities is the largest department of its kind in the world, and draws on a very broad range of research expertise, applied in an even broader range of contexts. Our People pages demonstrate a spread of expertise that is both applied and critical, local and global, political, entrepreneurial and creative.

As a research community, we share a passion for understanding the implications of technology on contemporary society, exploring the opportunities for computation in the Arts & Humanities, and enriching the role of Arts and Humanities and Social Science scholarship in the field of Computer Science.

We structure our research activities around the study of five key themes: Digital cultures – past and present; Technology, media and participation; Data worlds; Digital economy and society, and Digital epistemology and methods:

Digital cultures: past and present

Digital technologies recast the contours of memory, communities, identity and their records. The Department of Digital Humanities works with numerous cultural institutions and digital communities to help shape the contours of our own digital cultures.

Technology, media and participation

Our department works with partners from non-governmental organizations, cultural institutions, and industry to illuminate a broad range of issues concerning technology and participation. We investigate areas such as the role and value of data, new AI technologies, and the development of virtual and mixed realities.

Data worlds

The research of the Department on ‘data worlds’ investigates cultural, scientific, and technical possibilities enabled by new data innovations, combining our strengths in the traditional information sciences with innovative research into the social and cultural aspects of data.

Digital economy and society

Our department’s projects consider the rise of new platforms and digital ecosystems to explore how the digital economy shapes society, characteristics of digital innovation and labour, digital communities and communication, and the political conditions necessary for more just, equitable digital economies.

Digital epistemology & methods

Our novel digital methods address the whole range of new digital possibilities in data and informational analysis, such as social network analysis, spatial modelling, digital imaging, digital video production and historical epistemology.