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A statement about our funding

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Apr 262012
 
The UCL Centre for Digital Humanities would like to make it clear that it is not, and has never been, endowed by any outside bodies. UCLDH is funded solely by UCL itself. Any statements you may have seen to the contrary are wholly inaccurate. Claire Warwick and Melissa Terras: Co-Directors, UCLDH

Interdisciplinary Research posts

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Feb 212012
 
I’m delighted to say that the UCL is advertising three new Research Associate posts in interdisciplinary research in Arts and Humanities. Unlike a more traditional Research Fellowship, where an individual goes away and works for three years on an individual project, these must involve work across different disciplines. The people we are hoping to appoint [...]

Are inaugural lectures obsolete?

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Jan 232012
 
Tomorrow I’m giving my inaugural lecture: “The monologue in a crowdsourced world: have digital resources rendered the inaugural lecture obsolete?” It’s in the UCL Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre at 6.30. This link provides more details about me and what I’m going to be talking about, as well as a link to the registration page. I’ve [...]

Visitor experience and the digital museum

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Jan 182012
 
I’m looking forward to hearing Robert Bud talk today about digital museums. The Science Museum has been doing some really interesing work on the integration of digital resources into the physical museum expeirnce. It will be fascinating to hear more about this, so join us if you can. Details are below: Visitor experience and the digital museum Malet [...]

Blogs, Tweets and Open Access

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Nov 182011
 
UCLDH’s Deputy Director, Melissa Terras’s work using social media and Open Access is featured today in the Times Higher. Melissa has been carrying out an experiment into the way that social media can be used to make the most of the impact of her research. In recent weeks she has been uploading her publications to [...]
Aug 242011
 
The British Academy has just launched its latest call for Postdocs and the deadline is 12 October. We at UCLDH are always happy to welcome researchers with exciting new DH projects that fit well with our interests. So if you’d like to come to us to do a BA Postdoc, we’d be happy to talk [...]

Transcribe Bentham wins Ars Electronica award

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May 262011
 
We are hugely proud and excited to report that Transcribe Bentham has won an award of Distinction in the Prix Ars Electronica. Dr Tim Causer, researcher on the project has written the following about it. On behalf of everyone at UCLDH I’d just like to say how delighted I am that the hard work, imagination [...]
Mar 102011
 
Things never seem to stay very still for very long here at UCLDH. The latest news is that I’ve just been asked to take on the job of acting Head of the UCL Department of Information Studies (UCLDH’s parent department). This won’t affect UCLDH at all except insofar as it makes us even more integral [...]