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PROJECTS

Dr Joe Nockels / In Progress

Recognising Text, Recognising Processes

eXplainable Automatic Text
Recognition for Scottish Spiritualist Newspapers

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In Progress / Leverhulme Trust

Wiitkamaganak

Adoption and the Resurgence of Anishinaabe Citizenship Law

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African Voices Forum / Imperial War Museum

Rebuilding Lives, Redefining Belonging

Ex-soldiers, their families and communities in post-war Africa, 1945-60

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Dr Isabella Magni (Lecturer in Digital Humanities) / In Progress

Re-Interpreting and Re-Visualising Petrarch’s Poetry

This project examines Petrarch’s poetic influence across literary traditions using computational tools alongside philological analysis.

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Digital Humanities Institute / In Progress

Hong Kong Cultures, Arts and Languages

HKCAL is an interdisciplinary research network based in Northern England that explores the evolving contours of Hong Kong’s cultural identity both at home and abroad.

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Dr Kathryn Simpson / In Progress

Boundaries of Gender

‘Petticoat governments’ and secondary voices in nineteenth century European expeditions of Africa.

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Completed / Dr Seth Mehl (Research Associate - University of Sheffield)

Linguistic Bede

The Bede supercomputer will be used to explore the viability of machine learning approaches for interpreting billions of Linguistic DNA data.

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / In Progress

Global Socio-Economic Rights, Local Contexts

Work in East Africa and Western Europe, 1880 to the Present

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Dr Kathryn Simpson / Emily OHara

Participatory Harm Auditing Workbenches and Methodologies

A project to investigate the systematic and participatory auditing of current and evolving AI technologies

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Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland / In Progress

Eco-Museum of Scottish Mining Landscapes

The new virtual museum that celebrates a sense of place.

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In Progress / PROJECTS

The Letters of Hannah More

An edition of letters written by the celebrated playwright, poet, philanthropist, moralist and educationalist Hannah More (1745-1833)

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HORIZON Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks / In Progress

CASCADE

Computational Analysis of Semantic Change Across Different Environments

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Completed / Dr Valeria Vitale (Lectuer in Digital Humanities)

Text Correction for Mining Historical Documents

Applying advanced deep-learning techniques to improve the quality of poor OCR in the British Library Newspapers collection.

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Dr Kathryn Simpson / In Progress

The Spatial Poetics of Artefacts

David Livingstone’s expeditionary collecting

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Community-led impact for rural land rights in South Africa

A multilingual best practice handbook

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Archives+, Manchester Central Library / Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

The Letters of Richard Cobden (1804-65) Online

Transcriptions of c.5,500 letters that enable an exploration of active citizenship in the 19th and 21st centuries.

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

British Army Officers, 1790-1820

A case study of 40,000 British Army officers who served between 1790 and 1830

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

Scoping future data services for the arts and humanities

This project will scope the establishment of a national data service for the arts and humanities

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

From telegrams to Twitter

Archives of letters sent to party leaders will uncover impact of political correspondence

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Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) / Completed

C21 Editions

Scholarly Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age

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