Festival of Digital Research & Scholarship

Do you make use of the tools and technologies for data-intensive and/or computational research in your work? Then this event is for you!

Hosted by ARC, this will be a full-day event and evening celebration of all aspects of digitally-enabled research and scholarship with a series of keynotes, panel sessions, demonstrations/workshops and presentations from ARC staff, students and hopefully, our researcher colleagues from across UCL.

Submissions - via EasyChair

We are now inviting abstract submissions for presentations, posters and proposals for workshops & demonstrations. Submissions can relate to work you've already published elsewhere, to projects that have recently started, or to ideas you have for the future

Submissions should cover at least 1 of the following topics/themes:

• Open Scholarship - Data (qualitative, quantitative)
• Open Scholarship - Software/Code
• Large Scale/High Performance Computing
• Developing Digital Research Capabilities
• Unlocking Digital Research: career, skills and good practice
• Trusted Computing
• Big Data
• Other applications of Digital Research

All submissions are to be made via EasyChair

Participants

Particularly keen to celebrate the breadth of subject areas where digital research is being used, we encourage PhD students and staff of all career stages to participate in this event and showcase their work.

We will also be gathering ideas for new Digital Research Communities - so if you're a lone-worker or part of a small group/team working with a specific toolkit/software package/programming language/data management approach in your lab or department we'd love to hear from you and help connect you with others across UCL

How to participate

All submissions are to be made via EasyChair

Submitters should keep in mind that the reviewers - and the Festival audience - will be from across UCL

Option 1 - Presentation

Submit a 250-500 word abstract outlining your presentation and how you work contributes to digital scholarship

Presentations should be planned to run for 10-15 minutes, with 5 minutes question-time

Option 2 - Poster

Submit a 250 word abstrct outlining you poster and how you work contributes to digital scholarship

Option 3 - Workshop or Demonstration

Submit a 250-500 word abstract outlining you workshop/demonstration and how it links with digital scholarship. You should specify the resources/room set-up required (e.g. computer lab, classroom, guest Wi-Fi access), the target audience and how you plan to recruit participants

Length of workshops/demonstrations is at the discretion of the organiser depending on topic, nature of, etc.

If you wish to discuss your idea further before submission please do not hesitate to contact us 

Important dates

Submissions open: Now

Submission deadline: April 26th 2024

Notification: May 10th 2024

Additional information

Prizes will be awarded for best poster and presentation across the topics/themes

1st prize: £200 amazon gift voucher

2nd prize: £125 amazon gift voucher

Registration for event attendance to follow soon

See our Events page for all other ARC hosted and partnered events

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