UCLDH at 15: Highlights, Milestones & What’s Next
Thoughts from our new Co-Directors, Adam Crymble and Jin Gao.
blogs.ucl.ac.uk/dh/2025/09/3...

We’re thrilled to welcome our new Co-Directors:
@jin-gao.bsky.social & @adamcrymble.bsky.social

Together, they’ll be leading the Centre into its next chapter of innovation, collaboration, and digital scholarship. The future is #DigitalHumanities

Digital Object Based Learning for Well-being and Inclusion
4 June 2:15–4:15 pm
This workshop, led by Prof Antonella Poce, will present hands-on practices based on Object Based Learning and its digital development, focusing on 3D digital images and AI technologies.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Thank you to Prof Julianne Nyhan for giving a wonderful talk last night at the Susan Hockey Lecture 2025. Everyone enjoyed the event and it was lovely to celebrate our 15th anniversary with many familiar faces 🎉🥳

Happening tomorrow! Still time to register! 🎂🍰
The 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture with Prof Julianne Nyhan

Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection
📅 22 May 6pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/.../oral-his....

Join @ucldh.bsky.social Information Studies Book Forum Event exploring their unique coalition of scholars' recent achievements, projects & potential collaborations in common areas of interest.

🗓 5 June 2025 | 🕙 09:30–16:00
📍 UCL IOE – Jeffery Hall
🎟️ Register: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/informatio...

We're delighted to welcome former UCLDH Director Prof Julianne Nyhan to give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture, as we celebrate our 15th anniversary!

Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection
22 May 6pm UCL
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Can oral history can be understood as “data”?

What happens when we try to organize or represent the rich & complex experiences shared in an oral history interview using a structured format, like a knowledge graph?

And do such changes matter?

ARt-Z: Unlock the Unseen
1–23 May UCL East
Zeyu Zhao's exhibition, supported by IAS Octagon fund, presents 10 digitised paintings from the V&A’s Chinese Export Watercolours Collection. By integrating augmented reality it offers new ways to experience historical artworks
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Project Launch: New World Royalists
9 May 2025, 6–7:30 pm
The Centre for the Study of the Legacies of British Slavery is delighted to announce the launch of NEW WORLD ROYALISTS, an innovative new digital humanities project that focuses on Port Royal Parish, Jamaica.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection
Julianne Nyhan, Professor Emeritus of Digital Humanities at UCL, will give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture, as UCLDH celebrates its 15th anniversary 🎉🥳
22 May 2025, 6pm-8pm
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

📢 Join us on July 15, 2025! 🎉
UCL’s Festival of Digital Research, Innovation & Scholarship is back!
📢 Submit your presentations, posters & demos now!
🔗 ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/events/2025/jul/festival-digital-research-innovation-scholarship
#DigitalResearch #ResearchComputing #UCL #ARC

Reminder: need help with HPC, data science, or research computing? Join the UCL ARC Online Drop-In Session for expert advice from research computing specialists—all from home!
📅 March 24, 2025
🌍 Online
🔗 ucl.ac.uk/advanced-research-computing/events/2025/mar/online-drop-session-monday-24-march

Text Mining with tf-idf
4 April 2025, 2pm-4pm
Tf-idf is an information retrieval method to extract distinctive keywords from documents. In this interactive workshop we will explore the possibilities and limitations of the technique.
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Text Mining with tf-idf
4 April 2025, 2pm-4pm
Tf-idf is an information retrieval method to extract distinctive keywords from documents. In this interactive workshop we will explore the possibilities and limitations of the technique.
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

UCL Grand Challenge of Data Empowered Society - Small Grants 💰
Up to £10K for interdisciplinary projects tackling data-driven challenges & opportunities. Foster collaboration & drive impact!
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#ARC <a href="/hashtag/UCL" class="hover:underline text-blue-600 dark:text-sky-400 no-card-link">#UCL

📢 Calling all UCL SHAPE ECRs (arts, humanities or social sciences)
Want some advice on Getting Published? 📑📚
Join our interactive workshop on 5th March, 2-4pm at the IAS, UCL
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection
22 May 6-8pm
We welcome Julianne Nyhan, Professor Emeritus of Digital Humanities at UCL, to give the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture, as we celebrate our 15th anniversary! 🥳🎉
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

Text Mining with tf-idf
4 April 2025, 2pm-4pm
In-person only at UCL East
Tf-idf is an information retrieval method to extract distinctive keywords from documents. In this interactive workshop we will explore the possibilities and limitations of the technique.
www.ucl.ac.uk/digital-huma...

📢Calling all UCL ECRs & PhDs in A&H and SHS 📢
(if you are not in A&H or SHS you just need to find a suitable collaborator who is!)
The IAS Octagon Grant is open for applications 🎉🙌🏽
Apply by 24 Feb - get writing!
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Oral History and the digital transformation
3 February 2025, 1:25pm-2:45pm
We are pleased to welcome Dr Linde Apel (Research Center for Contemporary History) for this 'Voices Unbound?' seminar.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

UCL 2025 Creative Fellowships open - Encounters: Knowledge Futures in the Age of AI
Closing 16 February
Broadly focused on the fields of performance, creative writing, visual arts or media. Four Fellowships are available for 2025, with grants of £5K each.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Context Added and Subtracted: Ethical Considerations for the Digital Reuse of Oral Histories
27 January 2025, 1:25pm-2:45pm
We are pleased to welcome Mary Larson (Oklahoma State University Libraries) for this 'Voices Unbound?' seminar.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Curating large oral history archives with artificial intelligence
20 January 2025, 1:25 pm–2:45 pm
We are pleased to welcome Chris Pandza (Columbia University) for this 'Voices Unbound?' seminar.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...

Using Machine Learning and AI to Analyze Interviewer Questions in Holocaust Oral Histories
13 January 2025, 1:25pm-2:45pm
We are pleased to welcome Dr Todd Presner (UCLA) for this 'Voices Unbound?' seminar.
www.ucl.ac.uk/institute-of...