The Centre for Data, Culture and Society aims to build capacity for data-led research and support digital research projects.
We are looking for humanities, arts and social science researchers at the University of Edinburgh who want to explore innovative early stage digital research projects with the support of our experienced team of research technologists.
Participants in the sandpit will be able to apply for small project funding to support the purchase of relevant datasets, software or equipment, or the time of research assistants.
Our sandpit is a place for building things up and knocking things down, for learning and for fun. We will support researchers towards developing prototypes, the first step in any digital project; quickly creating a preliminary model of a digital object or product. This enables you to test the feasibility of ideas and helps clarify a project’s requirements.
Our team includes research software engineers and academics with experience across a range of project types from large scale text mining, to building interactive maps, to creating linked data, to network visualisations. We want to support our community to experiment with digital methods and tools, and to develop ideas into realistic projects. It might be a completely new research project, or part of an ongoing project, something you think would be quick and easy, or the beginning of a grand plan. You don’t need to have everything fully worked out, just an initial idea which we can help you develop.