Research Institute

Digital Humanities

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We take digital and computational approaches to humanities research. Our work includes research on digital infrastructures, digital media and cultures, critical data studies, and computational analysis.

Part of Archaeology, English, Film, History, Modern languages and linguistics, Music, Philosophy

We are a team of academics and technicians who lead, develop, and support research in the digital humanities. We take digital and computational approaches to humanities research. Working from the Digital Humanities Hub, the team provide access to expertise, specialist equipment, and technologies to support teaching, research and enterprise.

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Having completed my doctoral research on the late-Georgian artist-engraver Isaac Cruikshank, these days I work at the intersection of history, cultural heritage, and digital technologies.

Professor James Baker

Professor

My disciplinary background is in linguistics, but my work is more comfortably positioned at the interdisciplinary intersection(s) of (digital) media, communication, gender and sexuality studies.

Dr Lexi Webster

Associate Professor of Digital Culture