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The Great Parchment Book article in the THE

Fri, 21 Jun 2013 11:38:19 +0000

Melissa Terras, UCLDH Director, talks to the THE about the work being done at UCL to create a digital version of the fire-damaged Great Parchment Book.

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MA/MSc in Digital Humanities film

Thu, 20 Jun 2013 14:59:59 +0000

We were really pleased to be asked by the UCL Faculty of Arts and Humanities to make a film about the MA/MSc in Digital Humanities.  If you are interested in studying Digital Humanities, or want to know more about the subject, it’s a great starting point and source of information. Places are still available for [...]

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Doctorates at UCLDH

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UCL Centre for Digital Humanities is host to a variety of students currently carrying out PhD or EngD research, both from the UK and abroad.

PhDs at UCL are normally designed to extend over three years full-time or five years part-time study (unlike, say, North American PhDs there are no taught components prior to writing a thesis). Further information about pursuing a PhD at UCL, and what it generally entails, can be found in the UCL Graduate School Research Programmes pages. Most PhDs at UCLDH will, depending on their supervisor, be formally part of the Department of Information Studies, and UCL DIS provides further information about Research Degrees. Those interested in more technical areas should also look at the UCL Engineering Doctorate (Virtual Environments Imaging and Visualisation) pages, where funded EngD places will be advertised.

We recommend that before you make a formal application you discuss your potential research project with a member of staff at UCLDH. When you do so, please send a brief description of the topic that you would like to work on- of about a thousand words- and a copy of your CV. Please also copy this to the PhD student tutor of UCL Information Studies (UCLDH's home department), Vanda Broughton (v.broughton@ucl.ac.uk): she is responsible for all PhD student admissions.

We are now receiving more enquiries from PhD students than we have places available. Therefore please be aware that admission is a competitive process, and be willing to take some time preparing your application, as a result. We make decisions about who to admit based on how well your proposed topic fits with UCLDH research and your academic track record. If accepted you will be matched with the members of staff whose interests most closely relate to your research topic: we cannot guarantee that you will be able to work with specific named individuals.

Funding for PhDs is limited and competitive, and potential students are expected to pursue all avenues themselves in attracting funding. There are limited scholarships available from UCL, and eligible UK students can also apply for AHRC funding through the Department of Information Studies. The Graduate School provides further information about fees, costs, and funding , and the Department of Information Studies has further information regarding deadlines when applying for AHRC funding.

Our Doctoral Students

Affiliated Doctoral Students

Affiliated PhD Students are those whose first supervisor is not from within UCLDH, but whose secondary supervisor is linked to the Centre.

Completed PhDs

  • Isabel Galina worked on Open Access and Institutional Repositories. She is now coordinator for of the ReDHD Digital Humanities network in Latin America and works at the Institute for Bibliographic Studies at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). She was awarded her PhD in July 2009.
  • Ernesto Priego worked on Comic books in the Digital Age, and was awarded his PhD in May 2011
  • Henriette Roued-Cunliffe worked on 'a system to improve the interpretation of ancient documents', as part of the eSAD project for the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford. Supervisors: Alan Bowman [first] and Melissa Terras [second]. She was awarded her PhD in May 2012.