About Us

Founded in 2021 and led by James Baker, we are a team of academics and technicians who take digital and computational approaches to humanities research, teaching and enterprise. In addition to leading funded research projects, undergraduate elective models, and a Digital Humanities (Data Science) (MSc), we host workshops, peer learning sessions, demos, and talks which are available to all within the University.

Working from the Digital Humanities Hub on Avenue Campus, we also provide access to specialist equipment and technologies to support teaching, research and enterprise.

Our purpose is to explore society and culture through:

• queer identities and creativities
• the infrastructures that organise knowledge, power, and our biosphere
• the capture, representation, and preservation of landscapes, places, and objects
• and a commitment to computing culture rooted in Humanities questions, problems, and perspectives

This breadth is our strength. As linguists, technicians, historians, information scientists, digital humanists, archaeologists, gender scholars, preservation professionals, musicologists, media theorists, internet scholars, art historians, creative practitioners, data scientists, and more, we entangle our shared perspectives to create new agendas for Digital Humanities research, education, and enterprise.

In doing so, we place the Humanities at the heart of solutions to contemporary challenges, and envisage a Digital Humanities underpinned by critically informed computational humanities.

Our core Digital Humanities team have expertise in:

• data visualisation
• digital infrastructures
• digital cultures and media
• critical data studies
• corpus linguistics
• computational analysis 

Before Southampton Digital Humanities was re-launched in 2021, we fostered a lively community between 2011 and 2014. To learn about our past projects and work, visit our former iteration webpage.