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Speakers: Howard Hotson (Professor of Early Modern Intellectual History, University of Oxford), Andrew Prescott (Professor of Digital Humanities, University of Glasgow), Dave De Roure (Professor of e-Research, Oxford e-Research Centre) and Heather Viles (

This event will bring early-career and more established historians together with archivists, policymakers and digital specialists to consider these and other questions about the relationship between politics, digital technologies and the writing of histor

Mathematica is a tool used by researchers around the world for calculus, text and data analysis as well as for easily creating interactive visualisations using “Manipulate”.

Join us for the first in our series of Digital Humanities Breakfasts. Come along and enjoy food and fascinating lightning talks from academics and researchers working in the Digital Humanities at Oxford.

Social scientists are increasingly interested in the systematic use of text. This talk describes a method which combines qualitative content analysis with network analysis.

This session aims to demystify the Digital Humanities and show how the methods employed in this field might be of use to graduate students working in History, Literature, Music or other cognate disciplines.

This is an accredited online course for researchers interested in mixed methods.

For more than two hundred years, meningococcal disease has been one of the most feared childhood infections, with epidemics occurring unpredictably.

This event will present the latest developments in ways social scientists can use text and provides an excellent opportunity to explore the promises but also the limitations of this quickly expanding research field.

How can we take big data sets and make them easy to interpret, useful, and above all visual?

Michael Docherty, Digital & Strategic Marketing Planning Director, Cancer Research UK will explore the work Cancer Research UK are doing to increase their fundraising impact through digital and how they're opening up their research for the digital world t

Ada Lovelace’s notes on music and computation inspired the musical content of the Ada Lovelace Symposium held at the University of Oxford in December, on the 200th anniversary of her birth.

Researchers in the humanities and social sciences increasingly visualize their data and results for non-academic audiences like policymakers, civil society organizations, or journalists.

Introduction to Writing Interactive Fiction. Stories that allow the reader to make choices are a powerful artform in their own right, creating a dialogue between reader and creator.

This event brings together researchers, students and industry leaders with a shared interest in immersive technologies.

Wikipedia edit-a-thon: create or improve Wikipedia articles about women scientists and their achievements.

We will illustrate Wikipedia articles with images from various sources, with a focus on women in science.

This session looks into Wikipedia's quality scale and review processes, and at how we can get articles showcased.

Join us for the first ever transcribe-a-thon: we’ll use Wikisource to create an electronic edition of a historic book about women geniuses.