Cambridge Digital Humanities

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Cambridge Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary research centre, homed in the School of Arts and Humanities, shared with the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, and crossing multiple Schools and other units including the University Library, Cambridge collections and other research centres. It is currently hosted administratively by the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities, and has, in 2022, welcomed its first cohort of students for the MPhil in Digital Humanities, based in the Faculty of English. The centre welcomes its first cohort of doctoral students in Autumn 2024.

The Centre defines Digital Humanities as encompassing work on the cultural, social, and epistemic impacts of digital technologies (around data, on everyday life, in relation to literary, cultural forms, medium studies, including issues of technocratic rationality, power and justice); digital research methodologies; computational humanities; digital libraries and archival-based research; digital performance, and exhibition (including in cultural institutions); and research exploring cultural and social impacts of emerging technologies – notably around data, and Artificial Intelligence informed developments in, for example, face recognition, automatic writing and the social/cultural implications of robotics.

The Centre collaborates with researchers to generate and develop Digital Humanities scholarship across the arts and humanities. It creates and delivers research projects, explore emerging research areas, and collaborate with international partners. It works with Cambridge University Library, Cambridge University collections, and multiple faculties and research centres. It collaborates with a wide range of international partners in Europe and the US, and a priority is to develop deeper Global South links. Its aim is to further an expansive form of Digital Humanities that encompasses work with collections, literature as digital humanities, global digital humanities, critical media theorisation, digital media, methodological advancement, future and emerging technologies including Artificial Intelligence and machine learning.

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2017

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