UCLDH Community

There is much more going on at UCLDH than study and research. This page outlines a few of our other activities.

Alumni page

This UCLDH alumni blog has been set up independently from the UCL infrastructure to allow students past, present and future to interact and share their experiences, particularly in the area of the job market and further study.

Praxis Network

UCLDH was very pleased to be invited to be one of the founding participating programmes of the Praxis Network. This group was set up to focus on graduate education initiatives with an emphasis on new models of methodological training and collaborative research.

Decoding Digital Humanities London

DDHL was originally set up by staff and students at UCLDH as a series of informal monthly meetings to get together and discuss matters of interest to our discipline. It has now expanded to be a London wide event and is currently organised by postgraduate students from UCL and King's College London.

DH Friends

UCLDH welcomes DH friends passing through London and invites them to come and meet our students and perhaps give a talk about their research or other related activities.

Twitter

Many UCLDH projects and staff have a Twitter presence (see individual staff and project pages). Follow @UCLDH and #UCLDH.

Facebook Groups

See (and 'like') the UCLDH Facebook page.

In addition there are UCLDH MA/MSc Facebook groups for each year. These are closed groups and specific to each year; apply to the appropriate group admin to join.

UCLDH images online

Many images are available on the UCLDH Repository, Family album.

A simple UCLDH search on Flickr brings up many more.

In addition, use UCLDH as a keyword for searching Google images.

UCLDH merchandising

A range of t-shirts, mugs and other items imprinted with the UCLDH logo can be purchased online at the UCLDH Shop.

Digital Humanities China, Spring networking

The long Easter break once again enabled the opportunity for travel, supported by the UCL Global Engagement fund, to build on and extend our UCLDH China networks. Flying to Shanghai always means a visit to CAA, Shanghai Institute of Design and to see what is new there.

21st May 2019

Digitising monument records and archaeological archives – the Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes (CAAL) project

UCLDH members Tim Williams and Gai Jorayev were among staff from the Institute of Archaeology who have received a £2.89m grant from Arcadia – a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin – for the Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes (CAAL)

29th April 2019

Corpus analysis reveals ‘Routine politeness in American and British English requests’

UCLDH team member, Dr. Rachele De Felice, has had an article published in the Journal of Politeness Research.

Co-authored with M. Lynne Murphy, the article is entitled Routine politeness in American and British English requests: use and non-use of please (Journal of Politeness Research 15(1), 77-100). The article extract explains further:

23rd April 2019

Reflections on ‘Big Data in Archaeology’

UCLDH team member Andreas Vlachidis gave a talk at the Big Data in Archaeology: Practicalities and Possibilities conference (27-28th March 2019), organised by the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research, University of Cambridge.

Andreas’ talk was entitled “Reflections on excavating archaeological grey literature: and on the challenges in information extraction”

The conference website explains the aim of the conference:

15th April 2019

Ethics and Digital History IHR presentation

UCLDH deputy director Julianne Nyhan gave a presentation at the Institute of Historical Research Digital History Seminar on Ethics and Digital History.

26th February 2019

Recent publications on imaging techniques from UCLDH team member Dr Kathryn Piquette

UCLDH team member Dr Kathryn Piquette has had several works published recently, including:

4th February 2019

CAFA EAST: Education, Art, Science and Technology

I was reminded recently of my Classics background and about the link between art and technology, how new technological advances would push forward the development of, particularly, the plastic arts. The same is true now and I was delighted to be invited to speak at CAFA, the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, at their International Conference on Education, Art, Science and Technology.

8th December 2018

Museum Hackathon: digging into museum data sets.

UCLDH hosted its second hackathon focusing this time on visualising museum data sets. This was organised in partnership with the Media Centre and the Chair of Didactics of Computer Sciences of the TU Dresden.

1st December 2018

Riding the Mail Rail 2018

One of the nice things about having working partnerships with other institutions is that you get invited to their events. When the invitation is from the Postal Museum for a Mail Rail event you get to explore their underground museum, enjoy their hospitality but even more importantly, you get to ride on the underground Mail Train (now converted to take passengers rather than mail sacks).

1st November 2018

Shanghai Library Forum (SILF 2018)

I was very pleased to be invited back to the Shanghai Library and this time to speak in the Digital Humanities strand of the 9th Shanghai International Library Forum (SILF 2018).