A PhD studentship network that comprises three interrelated projects which seek to explore methods that are emergent within their home disciplines as well as potentially transformative for research in the arts and humanities.
MoreA collaborative R&D project between the Folger Shakespeare Library and the DHI to develop a federated semantic search and discovery service for the Folger’s multiple, online resources.
MoreA mobile, map-based guide to locations in Leeds connected to Dr John Deakin Heaton (1817-1880) and mentioned in his Journal. Heaton was a Leeds physician and promoter of provincial civic pride in nineteenth-century Britain.
MoreHow discoverable are your digitised collections? The DHI developed a specification for a tool which would support discovery solutions for online research resources both at national and/or institutional level.
MoreThis project brings 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 90,000 people sentenced at The Old Bailey between 1780 and 1925.
MoreAn interrogation of the production, trade, legislation, consumption and culture (social and material) of intoxicants throughout the early modern period using ontology modelling and data visualisations.
MoreLetters, Domestic Figurations & Representations of Whiteness in South Africa 1770s-1970s
MoreRecording, searching and visualising scribal practises in the fifth-century BC Chinese Wenxian Covenant Texts.
MoreThe DHI and the School of English worked with Sensoria Festival to develop a mobile application which provides users with access to a location-based guide to Sheffield’s musical heritage.
MoreThe Sheffield Participatory Arts Network (SPAN), set up in 2012, is an open network of community arts groups, music groups, and workshop leaders.
MoreHistory DMT (Data Management Training and Guidance) aimed to integrate best practice, good principles, and skills of research data management within the postgraduate curriculum and among early career historians.
MoreAn assessment system aimed at advanced learners of Polish who need to continue language education at the postgraduate level, and are looking develop the comprehension skills to aid with their research.
MoreThis project used participatory design methods to understand how search is used within humanities research in order to improve search interfaces.
MoreThis project investigated the variety of English spoken by the population of the Isles of Scilly (a group of islands 28 miles off Land’s End, Cornwall).
MoreA project which seeks to understand religious belief, identity, and narrative in Russia and Ukraine since 1945 using first-hand accounts.
MoreVisual depictions of Chiang Kai-shek from various forms of propaganda and other art from the 1940s through to the 2000s, with a particular concentration on negative images of Chiang.
MoreA database which contains the records and images of 868 literary illustrations published in or around 1862, providing bibliographical and iconographical details, as well as the images themselves.
MoreTis project explored the feasibility of using cheap consumer-grade technology such as Microsoft’s Kinect controller to capture environments and artefacts in 3-dimensions.
MoreJohn Lane’s Masonic Records, 1717-1894, listing all the lodges established by the English Grand Lodges and updated to provide information on lodges that came into existence after 1894.
MoreA collaborative project with Sheffield’s Showroom Cinema and the Dept of Sociological Studies to combine technology and high quality academic research in order to generate additional economic value from the cinema’s existing content and programming.
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