Matt Davies
DTH Manager, Digital Transformations Hub, Humanities Building
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ISYP Digitisation project news.
March 3, 2017
The digitisation of work produced by students of the Classics department’s Independent Second Year Projects module (ISYP) has moved into a new phase with this year’s volunteer team. Whilst the photographing and scanning of project work continues, Jack Strawbridge and Jamie Shakespeare have continued previous DHC volunteer Rhiannon Compton’s project to set up a searchable …
Inspiring Slides: Picasso’s Le Guéridon (The Pedestal Table) by Jamie Shakespeare.
February 10, 2017
This week we introduce the first in our new Inspiring Slides series. It was written by DHC student volunteer Jamie Shakespeare who is an MA student from the English department and has been volunteering in DHC since November 2016. He has been working on the ISYP digitisation project which -by pure coincidence -we will be reporting …
Being Human festival launch -Nottingham Portrait of a City by DHC Leonardo Fellow Amber Forrest
January 13, 2017
A Nottingham Muse project by Amber Forrest and Theodore Zeldin opening the Being Human festival on November 17th, 2016 with the Digital Humanities Centre team and student volunteers of Nottingham University. ‘I didn’t think you’d pull it off’. Were some of the first words that Pro Vice Chancellor Jeremy Gregory said to me when he …
Introducing DHC Leonardo fellow Amber Forrest and the Conversation Dinner.
November 15, 2016
Amber Forrest is the DHC’s new Leonardo Fellow and artist in residence and this Thursday evening she will be co-hosting Conversation Dinner at Jamie Oliver’s restaurant in Nottingham, as part of the Being Human Festival. DHC student volunteers will be providing support and this year’s DHC volunteer blog co-ordinator, Ranait Flanagan was tasked with finding …
From Digital Humanities volunteer to Digital Curator: how volunteering helped me to discover my true vocation by DHC volunteer alumna Emma Hardiman.
September 27, 2016
History of Art graduate Emma Hardiman volunteered in DHC 2011-2013, she is currently digital curator at Athena. It would be very easy to tell you that I always wanted to be a curator and that I knew exactly how to get there, but that simply would not be true. All I knew as a fresher …
Grassmoor School Visit to the University of Nottingham by Dr Larissa Allwork.
August 15, 2016
Dr Allwork is Impact Fellow at the Centre for Hidden Histories, this article originally appeared on their website 15th July 2016. On 13th June 2016, 25 year six students and their teachers from Grassmoor School in Derbyshire spent the day at the University of Nottingham learning about the First World War and being introduced to digital technology …
Five years of DHC Student Volunteers.
July 13, 2016
This week DHC says goodbye to the 2015-16 student volunteer team – some for good as they graduate (good luck guys!) some just until September when they have already agreed they will return. This was the fifth year of the volunteer Scheme and feels like something of a milestone, so I thought it would be …
From DHC to Houses of Parliament; how volunteering helped me to land my dream job by DHC volunteer alumna Rhiannon Compton.
June 24, 2016
As a history student at the University of Nottingham, I stumbled upon the career option of archivist. I knew that I loved history and that I wanted to continue it in some way and also I found information management really interesting. I began to undertake various work experiences with archives around the country to better understand …
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