University of Sussex

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Dr Iona Hine (Research Associate - University of Sheffield)

Linguistic DNA of Modern Western Thought

The aim of this project is to understand the evolution of early modern thought by modelling the semantic and conceptual changes which occurred in English discourse (c.1500-c.1800). The project will use information extraction techniques and data visualisation to identify lexical patterns in 250,000 texts.

Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Dr Richard Ward (Research Associate – University of Sheffield)

Digital Panopticon

This project will bring together genealogical, biometric and criminal justice datasets held in the UK and Australia in order to explore the impact of the different types of penal punishments on the lives of 66,000 people sentenced at The Old Bailey between 1780 and 1925.