Sussex Digital Humanities Lab (SHL Digital)

Description

The Sussex Humanities Lab is one of four flagship research programmes at the University of Sussex. SHL is concerned with the eco-socio-cultural potentials and impacts of an increasingly digital world. Members experiment with digital methods in research and investigate the interactions between technology and culture, society and environment in order to imagine and create more sustainable and just futures for all.

As a cross-campus research programme, SHL members span the arts, humanities, engineering, informatics, social science, life sciences, and the University library. The lab's research has a wide disciplinary reach, from community archives to AI, media theory to conservation technology, critical heritage to intersectional feminism, digital humanities to experimental music technology and critical making.

SHL was founded in 2014 with significant investment from the University. Since then SHL has been awarded in excess of £3.7 million in external research grants and have developed Digital Humanities (DH), and DH related teaching portfolios across the University, and significantly nurtured deep interdisciplinary collaboration in both domains.

SHL has grown from its roots in critical DH to an expansive engagement with digital methods across creative practice, social science, sustainability and much more.

Some of the lab's thematic strands are:

• critical digital humanities and archives;
• AI, computational society and culture;
• creative computing and play;
• experimental ecologies.

SHL Digital has grown from its roots in critical DH to an expansive engagement with digital methods across creative practice, social science, sustainability and much more. We define SHL Digital as more than a DH lab. We think of it as DH++.

DH: digital methods for humanities and social science research​.

DH++ : both practice/method and critique (hack and yack); collaborative experimentation between the humanities and computer science; (digital) cultural studies – digital history, creative & critical computing, infrastructure, coding, creative coding, cultural analytics, data analysis, text encoding, image analysis, AI, media archaeology, digital archives, information science, digital preservation, data-driven research, digitisation, data science, and more.

Funding:

Annual Seed Funding call (internal call)

Annual Artist in Residence call (external call)

PhD community advocates call (internal call)

The lab's exact address is:

Sussex Digital Humanities Lab
University of Sussex
Silverstone  SB211
Arts Road
Brighton
BN1 9RG

You can also visit SHL Digital on BlueSky and LinkedIn to stay up to date with the lab's latest news. 

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No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2014

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University of Sussex
Brighton

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