Newly Established Durham Centre for Digital Humanities (DCDH) Launches with Interdisciplinary Research and Collaboration
We are delighted to announce the launch of the Durham Centre for Digital Humanities (DCDH), a new interdisciplinary centre at Durham University dedicated to exploring the relationships between digital technologies, the arts and humanities, cultural heritage, and scholarly communication.
The Centre brings together researchers, students, and professional services colleagues working across a wide range of disciplines and practices. DCDH will act as a collaborative meeting ground for developing new approaches to digital research, critical AI studies, computational analysis, creative practice, and public engagement.
The Durham Centre for Digital Humanities fosters a vibrant, interdisciplinary, and self-governing community of practice dedicated to exploring the intersections between digital technologies, the arts and humanities, cultural heritage, and scholarly communication.
As digital methods continue to transform how we study, interpret, preserve, and communicate knowledge, DCDH aims to support both technical innovation and critical reflection. The Centre will encourage collaborations that move across traditional disciplinary boundaries, creating opportunities for new forms of research and experimentation.
Research and Collaboration
The Centre supports research spanning areas such as artificial intelligence, digital archives, multimodal analysis, cultural heritage technologies, computational creativity, digital storytelling, visualisation, and interactive systems. Alongside technical development, DCDH places strong emphasis on humanities-led perspectives that critically examine the social, cultural, and ethical implications of digital technologies.
Through workshops, seminars, collaborative projects, public events, and research initiatives, DCDH will help foster a connected community interested in how digital approaches can open new ways of understanding texts, images, sound, material culture, and human experience.
- Interdisciplinary collaboration across departments and faculties
- Humanities-led approaches to AI and digital technologies
- Support for digital research methods and infrastructure
- Engagement with cultural heritage, archives, and creative practice
- Opportunities for students, researchers, and professional services staff
Looking Forward
DCDH reflects Durham University's growing commitment to digital scholarship and interdisciplinary research. As Co-Director, I am excited to help build a centre that supports both methodological innovation and critical dialogue, while creating space for experimentation, collaboration, and new forms of scholarly practice.
Over the coming months we will be announcing new events, activities, and opportunities to get involved with the Centre. We look forward to welcoming colleagues, students, collaborators, and partners from across Durham and beyond.
To learn more about the Durham Centre for Digital Humanities and future activities, please visit the Centre website and follow upcoming announcements.