“Interactive, informal, innovative: the Digital Humanities Research Forum at Kent”
The Faculty of Humanities held its first ever Digital Humanities Research Forum on Tuesday 12th March, 2:30 – 5:30, in the new Architecture Crit Space (first floor of the Marlowe building).
This event was open to all staff and postgraduates who are interested in finding out more about digitally driven research in the Faculty of Humanities. It was meant to be interactive and informal – the short presentations were designed to give a flavour of the digitally driven research which is taking place in all Schools of the Faculty and there was be plenty of time to ask questions during the sessions.
The programme for the afternoon included the following sessions:
- Introduction (Dr Catherine Richardson – School of English)
- ‘Digital economies culture and communities network’ (Professor Marialena Nikolopoulou – School of Architecture)
- (Professor Amalia Arvaniti & Dr Vikki Janke – SECL English Language and Linguistics)
- ‘Some views of spaces’ (Dr James Baker – School of History)
- ‘Fragile Manuscripts and Vanished Households: Medieval and Early Modern digital projects’ (Dr Catherine Richardson – School of English)
- ‘Software…uh?!’ (Dr Aylish Wood – School of Arts)
- ‘The contribution of 3-D scanning to artefact research in archaeology’ (Dr Ellen Swift – SECL Classics & Archaeology)
- ‘The impact of digital technology on project management in field archaeology: a case study’ (Dr Luke Lavan – SECL Classics & Archaeology)
- “Connecting the Dots: Digitally Connecting Who, Words and Wosbies” (Dr Alice White, School of History)
- ‘Packaging impact into just 6 minutes: the Animated Format as a means to Increasing Density of Research Information’ (Professor Ray Laurence – SECL Classics & Archaeology)
- Networking, tea and cake in the Marlowe Foyer
- There was also an opportunity to see some of the equipment used in action and to talk to the researchers about their research)
