Category Archives: pedagogy

Teaching the Digital Humanities (Interdisciplinary) Journey

Like many interdisciplinary fields within the humanities, the Digital Humanities consists of a broad range of researchers arriving within its fold from a range of disciplinary practices (and for a variety of different purposes). These may include disciplines as diverse as Papyrology, Musicology, Classics, Epigraphy, Medieval Studies, history and Classical Archaeology.  The Digital Humanities, through [...]

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New forms of doctorate

I attended an ESRC funded seminar today and organised by the Landsdown Centre for Electronic Arts on new forms of doctorates. This was the third seminar in the series. As someone who undertook a practice based PhD some years back (that admittedly was not altogether a totally a rewarding institutional experience), I found the seminar [...]

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100+ Places to Find Funding For Your Research

Whether you’re researching the habits of marine life, ancient texts or just a new way to market products, you’ll likely need some funding to get your studies underway. The Internet is a great place to start looking for sources of funding, and we’ve put together a list here of a hundred or so places where [...]

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How stupid can university rankings get?

This is an indication on just how relative, simplistic, and self-serving the so-called university ‘global’ rating system has become. A university in Melbourne , unable, it seems, to compete on the rather insane ranking system created by newspapers like the London Times, has decided to create its own ranking system. And who comes on top [...]

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Peer review and evaluation of digital resources for the Arts and Humanities

Here is a report done in the UK to help advance peer review processes for digital work in the arts and humanities. Peer review is a problematic issue, especially in Australia, in that many academics who don’t invest any intellectual energy into advancing digital work for humanistic purposes are (ironically) rewarded more than those academics [...]

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Preparing Students for User-Led Content Production

Here is a recorded talk given by the prolific Axel Bruns of QUT at the ATOM Conference 2006 (link). Like most somewhat commercially-orientated researchers, this researcher works in a very crowded field and his most potent contribution seems to be in teaching rather that definable original research. I.e. too much process orientation, and not enough [...]

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Morning Coffee with Craig: Do you have time to think?

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  • ...this blog is obsessively directed at profiling digital humanities developments in a cultural, social, and technical sense and in terms of books and applications...it is an aggregation or 'meta' style blog with the occasional commentary

    Hi, my name is Dr Craig Bellamy and I am a digital humanities analyst for the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative, a consortium based at the University of Melbourne, however, the views expressed in this blog are the responsibility of the author alone.

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