New CDH affiliated member: Fabian Ferrari The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) team is proud to welcome dr. Fabian Ferrari as an affiliated member. He is an Assistant Professor in Cultural AI at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University (UU), and a member of the UU focus area Governing the Digital Society. His postdoctoral research on AI governance (2022-2024) was […] Read more
CDH/UB workshop: Data exploration toolkit for cultural data The Centre for Digital Humanities (CDH) and Utrecht University Library (UB) are organising a workshop on data exploration for cultural data. This workshop focuses on the fundamental steps of collecting, …
Lecture by Nick Couldry (Governing the Digital Society) On 15 May, 16:00 to 17:30 hours in the Utrecht University Museum’s Bovenzaal, the focus area Governing the Digital Society hosts a lecture by Nick Couldry titled: ‘The space of …
LUCDH Lunch Lecture: Modelling Social Dynamics on Social Media – Networks and NLP On Friday 9 May the Leiden University Centre for Digital Humanities (LUCDH) organises a lunch lecture on ‘Modelling Social Dynamics on Social Media – Networks and NLP’ with Network Science …
Do you have a collaborative research project idea? Apply now for Impact Project vouchers! Data School has published a call to action for Impact Projects: support for impact-focused research projects in the humanities with societal partners. Impact Project vouchers are available with a fixed individual value of €8,000. For the past 10 years, Data School has been at the forefront of researching the impact of AI in society. Working across […] Read more
NVivo video tutorial In this video series, Julia Straatman (Data School) provides a beginner-friendly tutorial of NVivo: a software program designed to help analyze qualitative data. Installation instructions for NVivo are provided by Utrecht University in English and in Dutch. If you run into any trouble while using NVivo, manuals for NVivo 14 are available for Windows and […] Read more
Book ‘Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society’ recommended by DUB The book Collaborative Research in the Datafied Society: Methods and Practices for Investigation and Intervention (2024, Amsterdam University Press) has been recommended by DUB (the independent news site of Utrecht University) in their December 2024 book review. This book was edited by Mirko Tobias Schäfer (Science Lead at Data School), Karin van Es (Humanities Lead at […] Read more
Call for Applications for 11 Doctoral Positions at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität The research training group “Literature and the Public Sphere in Differentiated Contemporary Cultures” at Friedrich-Alexander-Universität (FAU) Erlangen-Nürnberg, funded by the German Research Foundation, is offering 11 Doctoral Positions (m/f/d) (65%, E-13 TV-L) for a duration of three years respectively, starting 1 October 2025. Extensions for the doctoral positions (6 months) are possible. The interdisciplinary Research Training […] Read more
CDH workshop: Working with social media data – introduction to 4CAT In this interactive workshop, Sander Prins and a 4CAT developer (to be announced) will introduce you to social media data collection and analysis. After this hands-on session, you will be …
Upcoming Data School workshops for humanities staff & students Are you a staff member or student at the Faculty of Humanities at Utrecht University (UU)? Then this is your chance to join a free workshop hosted by digital humanities (DH) experts from the Data School team! As part of the CDH Education Programme, we are organising introductory workshops on data ethics, network visualisation and […] Read more
An interactive Geo-Spatial Platform for Modeling Jewish Historical Migration In this project, we built an interactive platform documenting Jewish historical migration into Europe during Roman and Medieval periods. […] Read more
4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit UU now hosts the 4CAT: Capture and Analysis Toolkit for all its researchers and students to collect and process social media data. […] Read more
Data School research in the media Data School often appears in the media with innovative and news-worthy data research. PhD candidate Joris Veerbeek (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 published: More Data School in the media […] Read more
Data School: Research report ‘Playing with fire’ translated to English 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 […] Read more
Webinar series to learn how to work with CLARIAH Media Suite In the spring semester 2022, the CLARIAH Media Suite team offers a webinar series that introduces participants to working with the audiovisual collections, tools and methods made available in the Media Suite. Each webinar starts with a theoretical introduction followed by a hands-on session. The team starts the series with an introductory session focusing on […] Read more
