Digital Humanities

This Digital Humanities degree fromSchool of Advanced Study, University of Londondemonstrates the value ofdigital researchto the wider humanities community and fulfils the School’s remit to promote and facilitate digitally enabled research across the disciplines.

Key Facts

• Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary subject area that brings a range of computational, quantitative and other innovative and collaborative methods to the study of texts, images, histories, languages and cultures, while also being critical about methodology, disciplinarity and pedagogy.

• Digital Humanities in the School of Advanced Study, University of London demonstrates the value of digital research to the wider humanities community and fulfils the School’s remit to promote and facilitate digitally enabled research across the disciplines. The School’s multidisciplinary DH team comprises academics with strong connections to subject areas including Classics, English, History and Modern Languages and Cultures, as well as researchers and practitioners with technical backgrounds.

Recent research in the Hub has included:

• Humanities approaches to the archived web

• Analysing COVID misinformation on social media

• The transnational comparison of parliamentary proceedings

• Computational text analysis of the 1921 Census records

• The application of digital methods to papyrology

• Digital resources in cultural heritage institutions

• Multilingual analysis of contemporary news coverage using natural language processing