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sotonDH Small Grants: Medieval Palaeography and the Digital World – Post 1
by Jacopo Mazzeo via Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities
sotonDH Small Grants: Medieval Palaeography and the Digital World – Post 1 by Jacopo Mazzeo I am a second year PhD student in Musicology. My main subject is Medieval Palaeography which is a discipline that studies ancient musical notations. I usually work with high quality digital images: these are basically pictures taken from medieval manuscripts where I find music that …
sotonDH Small Grants: Mapping Libel Performance in Early Modern Devon – Post 3
by Clare Egan via Digital Humanities
sotonDH Small Grants: Mapping Libel Performance in Early Modern Devon – Post 3 by Claire Egan Mapping Libel Performance in Early Modern Devon: Results The pilot resource mapping a sample of the performance-based libel cases from early-modern Devon is now complete. Its layers include the locations used for performance in all ten libel cases with […]
Sex Work Futures?
by Peter Griffiths via Work Thought Blog
Sex work futures? It’s the start of the new term for Universities and Colleges throughout the world. Choices and compromises have led new students to embark on courses that are likely to profoundly influence their future careers – because of the knowledge and skills they acquire, because of the networks of contacts they build and […]
WFRC welcomes Professor Peter Griffiths as co-director
by Josephine Corsi via Work Thought Blog
We are delighted to announce that we have recruited a new co-directorto the Work Futures Research Centre. Peter Griffiths is currently Professor of Health Sciences Research in the Faculty of Health Sciences. Peter studied Social Psychology at the University of Sussex in the 1980s, a decision that he says was influenced by an ‘anarchist egg attack’ […]
Digital Economy USRG Contributions to Web Science MOOC #FLwebsci
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
On 11th November 2013 the University of Southampton will be running its first MOOC (Massive Open Online Course), focusing on Web Science – a taster of how the web is changing the world and how the world is changing the web. It will be the first of many courses that will be made available in […]
Paper at British Academy of Management Conference, 2013
by Luke Goater via Digital Economy USRG
Very enjoyable to present some of the work from my colleague Muhammad Nouman’s PhD at the British Academy of Management Conference at Aintree, Liverpool, last week. The slides are here: Bam2013 pakistan presentation from Lorraine Warren
Upcoming Digital Economy Events: Autumn 2013
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
We have lots of goodies planned for the new term, and there are more still in the pipeline – please check out our DE Events page for more detail and ongoing updates. All staff and students are welcome to attend DE events, which are normally held at lunchtimes and come with free sandwiches 🙂 Events […]
DE2013 Open Digital Conference at MediaCity
by Lisa Harris via Digital Economy USRG
#DE2013: Open Digital: http://t.co/BfgckwGH0L at MediaCity Salford 4-6 Nov. Early Bird registration rates end 9/9 @sotonDE — Lisa Harris (@lisaharris) September 6, 2013
Recent Grant success: EPSRC First Grant on “Constrained low rank matrix recovery: from efficient algorithms to brain network imaging”
by Thomas Blumensath via Computational Intensive Imaging Blog
Dr Blumensath, a researcher and one of the co-chairs from the Computationally Intensive Imaging group was recently awarded a grant from the EPSRC to study advanced image processing techniques to analyse Brain Imaging Data. In this project Dr Blumensath will develop new computer algorithms to analyse data that arises, for example, in brain imaging. Building on […]
Making Digital: Visual Approaches to the Digital Humanities
by Nicole Beale via Digital Humanities | Digital Humanities
Over the past few months Gareth and I have been lucky enough to be involved in a project working with artists from Winchester School of Art to develop a series of training events looking at the relationship between art and archaeology. This project has been a fantastic experience. Later this week, we are all going to EVA London 2013 to …