Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster

Description

The Wolfson College Digital Research Cluster focuses on work across a variety of disciplines in which the web is the platform, and where sharing of ideas and methodologies could bring mutual benefit.

Since the Cluster was launched in 2010 the pace of digital research has accelerated. Many students in the college are using digital technologies in their personal and project research.

It could be argued that all research these days is digital, since eveyrone uses computers in their work. The focus of the Digital Research Cluster is on work across a variety of disciplines in which the web is the platform, and where sharing of ideas and methodologies could bring mutual benefit.

Wolfson College is the natural home for this venture: it is graduate, large, strong in sciences and arts, forward-thinking, and has a tradition of fostering cross-disciplinary collaboration. By working together within the Wolfson Digital Research Cluster, members aim to lead the way in this rapidly advancing field, create new research partnerships, and also to attract funding for scholarships, workshops, and summer schools.

The Cluster is currently working with the Centre for Life-Writing on a joint Lives in Medicine project, and with the Voltaire Foundation, now associated with the College, to help develop a major digital archive of Voltaire's correspondence.

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2010

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University of Oxford
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Voltaire Foundation for Enlightenment Studies

The mission of the research department is to disseminate leading Enlightenment research and make the debates of Voltaire and his contemporaries accessible to a wide audience. The newly launched Voltai… read more about Voltaire Foundation for Enlightenment Studies

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