We are pleased to present the Fall Education Program 2024 of the Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH). Take your first steps into the world of digital humanities or refine your existing skills. Registration is now open! Every six months, we launch a new series of workshops and lectures within the field of Digital Humanities (DH). The sessions in…

Data School has published a call to action for Impact Projects: support for impact-focused research projects in the humanities with societal partners. For the past 10 years, Data School has been at the forefront of researching the impact of AI in society. Working across disciplines and in close collaboration with external partners we conduct research around…

21 February 2025 @ 13:00 – 17:00 – Jeroen Bakker, researcher at Data School, and Jelte van Boheemen, research software engineer at the Research Sofware Lab of the Centre for Digital Humanities will introduce you to the core concepts of …

18 November 2024 @ 13:00 – 16:00 – This workshop is fully booked. If you are interested in participating, please register for the extra edition of this Introduction to NVivo workshop on 2 December 2024.   Explore the …

21 November 2024 @ 15:15 – 16:45 – During this hands-on lecture, Iris Muis, Lead Operations at Data School, will talk about data ethics and the Fundamental Rights and Algorithms Impact Assessment (FRAIA). The lecture will be followed …

The Centre for Digital Humanities’ Data School often appears in the media with their innovative and news-worthy data research. PhD candidate Joris Veerbeek from Data School regularly shares interesting findigs from his data research in the independent and progressive Dutch weekly news magazine De Groene Amsterdammer. Recently, two more articles based on his research were…

Authors Julia Straatman and Lysa Ngouateu have published a (Dutch) blog post on the Data School website about Data School‘s visit to the yearly Computers, Privacy and Data Protection (CPDP) conference. This year, the conference took place in Brussels (Belgium) from 22-24 May. Data School moderated two panels and hosted an interactive workshop. Data School at CPDP 2024…

From 5-9 August 2024, Data School offers a full week of hands-on workshops and inspiring guest lectures at Utrecht University during the summer course Exploring Culture Through Data: Digital methods & Data practices. By the end of this week you will be able to work with digital methods to collect, analyze and visualize complex data…

The research report that was originally published as ‘Spelen met vuur’ in October 2023 has now been translated from Dutch to English. Researchers from Utrecht University’s Faculty of Humanities and Data School investigated the dynamics between political debate in the Dutch House of Representatives (Tweede Kamer) and reactions, comments and framing on social media. Analyses…

Utrecht University’s Data School will host its first international DEDA seminar on September 25th, 2024. The deadline for submission is May 31st. The Data Ethics Decision Aid (DEDA), a toolkit developed by the Data School, maps ethical issues in data projects. It documents the deliberation process and stimulates accountability towards the various stakeholders and the public.  This…

25 September 2024 @ 09:00 – 16:00 – Utrecht University’s Data School will host its first international DEDA seminar on 25 September 2024 from 9:00 to 16:00 hrs, with the option to stay for drinks after the seminar. The seminar will …

Data School’s Mirko Schäfer and Iris Muis are keen to push for a broader definition of impact at university level. Although they do not find the time to publish as often as they would like, their research is having significant impact, with their work used in Austria, Sweden, Finland and Greece. Schäfer: ‘If you really want to achieve an impact,…