Hello!
Welcome to the sixth annual report of the Centre for Data, Culture & Society. This report presents the range of our activities and the projects we have supported across the academic year 2024/25. It shows the ways in which, as we adapt to changing contexts and demands, the Centre continues to focus on strengthening our core mission of holding an inclusive and innovative space for building capacity in responsible data-led and digital research in the arts, humanities and social sciences. With our roots now well-established, this year we have been able to branch out into newer directions, contributing to national conversations around the future of the UK’s digital research infrastructure, leading the way locally and nationally in responsible research practices.
Highlights this year have included achieving over 1000 registrations for our training programme; our Annual Lecture, given by Alex Gil of Yale University, which focused on the realities and politics of 'best practice' in the Digital Humanities; and seeing the team being invited to participate in projects and deliver a number of talks on our work both nationally and internationally. Our Digital Research Prizes are always a particular high point in the spring, with awards this year going to people from seven different disciplines within the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. We were also delighted at the success of our Digital Research Analyst who was awarded a DISKAH fellowship to work on a project on improving OCR errors through high performance compute.
The core values of CDCS – community, collaboration, inclusivity - continue to underpin all our work. This report is a testament to the team work and many hands that build networks and activities that intersect and reinforce one another: we are deeply proud of the canopy that the Centre now forms, nurturing our research and learning communities, as they themselves branch out into data-led and applied computational methods. As always, we look forward with excitement to seeing how their ideas and skills will grow.
Dr Lisa Otty, Director
This report will shortly be made available in PDF format. While we have made every effort to make this document accessible, it performs best in a screen reader using manual controls. A Word version is available on request.