Collaboration & Partnerships
We work closely with many other teams and organisations. We are always interested in hearing about potential collaborations and work that has synergies with what we do. If you'd like to work with us, please reach out.

DARIAH-EU
DARIAH is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) whose mission is to empower research communities with digital methods to create, connect and share knowledge about culture and society. In addition to having 22 Member States, DARIAH has also established a network of cooperating partners in non-member countries.
We are delighted to announce our partnership with DARIAH-EU, marking a significant partnership to advance digital humanities research at the University of Edinburgh.
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Digital Humanities Climate Coalition
We support the DHCC which is currently a Community Interest Group of the UK - Ireland Digital Humanities Association.
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The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH)
The Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (IASH) at the University of Edinburgh is one of the world's premier Institutes for Advanced Study. They support innovative research and public engagement activities across the arts, humanities, social sciences and beyond, through a range of interdisciplinary and international projects and programmes. Digital Humanities and Digital Scholarship represent a rapidly growing focus of research and public engagement within IASH.
We partner with IASH to offer funded Digital Scholarship Visiting Fellowships and Digital Scholarship Postdoctoral Fellowships each year.
DH RSE Summer School
We partner with Cambridge Digital Humanities, King’s Digital Lab and The Alan Turing Institute to offer the annual Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School.
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Programming Historian
We are proud to be institutional partners of Programming Historian, which provides online peer-reviewed tutorials in digital methods.
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Edinburgh Carpentries
We are part of the Edinburgh Carpentries initiative, hosted by the Software Sustainability Institute and work to support the development of Data and Software Carpentries across the University and the city. Our team contributes to the Steering Group and the Organising Committee.
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National Library of Scotland
The National Library of Scotland is a reference library with world-class collections. It is also Scotland's largest library and one of the major research libraries in Europe
In partnership with the Digital Scholarship Service, we support the use of the Library’s Data Foundry and work together on training initiatives. We have collaborated with the Library on a variety of projects including an internship and a creative project to 3-D scan and then render parts of the library building hidden under their public reading rooms on George IV Bridge.

EDINA
EDINA is a world-class centre for digital expertise, based at the University of Edinburgh. The centre develops, hosts and delivers trusted digital services developed for UK education and research, for government and public bodies, for communities locally and globally.

READ COOP
The University of Edinburgh is a founding partner in the new READ-COOP which oversees the development of the Transkribus platform. Melissa Terras is on the Board of Directors of READ-COOP.

Library & University Collections
Library and University Collections (L&UC) is responsible for the University of Edinburgh’s digital and physical collections. They work in partnership to deliver the services that bring our collections to the university community and the wider public. It has five sections: Digital Library and Library Research Support, Collections Development & Access, Special Collections, Museums and Library Academic Support.
We have a strong working relationship the Centre for Research Collections and the Digital Library team. We regularly collaborate on internships and developing events and digitisation training to ensure that the research community can access, analyse and explore the University of Edinburgh's rich and varied collections. Many of the images on our site are 'mash ups' from LUC collections.

Digital Cultural Heritage Research Network
The Digital Cultural Heritage Network brings together colleagues from across the University and the cultural heritage sector in a professional network for people investigating digital cultural heritage issues. Since 2016, it has hosted events and activities aimed at creating new research relationships across and beyond the University.

Software Sustainability Institute
The Software Sustainability Institute cultivates and improves research software to support world-class research, including in the arts, humanities and social sciences. The SSI provides guidance, training, community initiatives, policy, and tools to researchers and research software engineers to help achieve a vision of “better software, better research”.

Centre for Research Collections
The Centre for Research Collections (CRC) is an access point for the University’s cultural and heritage collections, including archives, art, manuscripts, musical instruments and rare books. Key services include digitisation and Image Licensing; access to collection data sets (in development) and digital Preservation advice.

Digital Research Services
Digital Research Services provide a single point of access to all data and computing services available to researchers at the University of Edinburgh.
A wide range of digital research services are available for use across the research lifecycle. Resources are available to support data-intensive and computational research. Alongside case studies that demonstrate how resources can be used, Digital Research Services also provide information on access, requirements and costs, and information about how researchers can develop their digital research skills.

Data Science and Digital Humanities Special Interest Group at the Turing
The Data Science and Digital Humanities Special Interest Group aims to bridge the gap between the communities of Data Science and Digital Humanities by encouraging collaborations across the two research areas and by providing thought-leadership at the national and international level. The group’s position within The Alan Turing Institute, the UK national research institute in Data Science and Artificial Intelligence.

Neuropolitics Research Lab
The Neuropolitics Research Lab produces transdisciplinary research, utilizing developments in the cognitive neurosciences, to shed new light on political attitudes, identities and decision-behaviours.

Centre for Research in Digital Education
The Centre for Research in Digital Education brings together work under four themes: Digital Cultures; Children & Technology; Data Society; and Data Education in Schools. They are interested in how research and practice in education intersects with technology, and the impact of this on culture, policy and pedagogy. Their work investigates how education is shaping, and is shaped by, technological change.

The Edinburgh Language Technology Group (LTG)
The Edinburgh Language Technology Group (LTG) is a research and development group working in the area of natural language processing and engineering. They focus on building practical solutions to real problems in text mining and analysis, and work in all areas of large-volume text handling.

Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC)
Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre (EPCC) provides supercomputing and data services to industry and academia. Its combination of staff expertise, large-scale computing power, and data storage capacity is unrivalled in the UK.

Centre for Design Informatics
The centre for Design Informatics draws on Edinburgh’s unique combination of strengths in Informatics and Design, to inspire, equip and nurture a new generation of design-informatics researchers, practitioners and entrepreneurs.

Digital Curation Centre
The Digital Curation Centre (DCC) is an internationally-recognised centre of expertise in digital curation with a focus on building capability and skills for research data management. The DCC provides expert advice and practical help to research organisations wanting to store, manage, protect and share digital research data.