Digital Humanities Postgraduate studies in the Faculty of Arts & Humanities
Join our creative and innovative community of world-leading experts to explore, learn about and help to understand our digital world.
A world-leading department working across the university and public sectors, cultural heritage, and industry, we offer a stimulating environment where you will be supported to think, explore, learn, and engage with dedicated staff from a wide range of academic and professional backgrounds. WHY STUDY WITH US?
• We are part of a global
and multi-disciplinary network of scholars and practitioners working at the leading edge of digital studies. Our teaching offers a lively mix of theory and practical work, giving you a strong understanding of the place of the humanities in today’s digital world. • We provide opportunities to engage with and learn from the experiences and practice of partners ranging from the British Library to Net-a-Porter in the UK, to institutions across Europe,
the US, India, China, Africa and elsewhere. Based in the heart of • London, our student body is multicultural and we seek to share and learn from each other to broaden our thinking and stimulate new questions, and we encourage discussion and debate. • We equip students with skills that have proven extremely attractive to employers, including management of digital resources, social media, digitisation, and technological principles behind modern web design.
DEGREES OFFERED • MA in Digital Humanities – brings digital theory and practice to the study of human culture, from history, English and music to museums, digital publishing and beyond • MA in Digital Culture and Society – explores the role of digital technologies in contemporary culture, including performing arts, telecommunications, philosophy, law and education • MA in Digital Asset and Media Management – explores the challenges of digital information and knowledge management, including creation, documentation, management, delivery and preservation of digital content • MA in Digital Curation – provides core skills in metadata, preservation, knowledge representation, libraries, ethics and rights management. Students spend a year each in Berlin and London
For more information about our degrees and staff members visit: www.kcl.ac.uk/ddh
We are an international leader in our field, and the
DEGREES OFFERED
only department in the world to offer a PhD in
We offer the opportunity to work solely in the department with scholars of your choice, or to undertake a collaborative PhD with co-supervision in another department at King’s or even at a different institution. For example, we currently have co-supervised PhDs with colleagues in Classics, History, English, and Culture, Media and Creative Industries.
Digital Humanities. We bring multi-disciplinary perspectives and methods to our vibrant research culture, where ideas are explored and debated, theoretical and applied research interact, and everyone is part of our community of scholars. ABOUT OUR RESEARCH
• Curiosity and experimentation drive our research. We explore how digital technologies and methods can help us understand the records of the past and the present in new ways. • We experiment with how to represent digital information and knowledge, how to analyse and visualize large quantities of digital information, and the tools and infrastructure needed. • We question the impact of the globalization of information and knowledge and how we might better
understand our digital selves, cultures and societies. • We are curious about the interaction of technology and digital content with cultural and social processes, with how we read and publish, with how we make and tell stories, and how we create, keep or delete memories. • We investigate how we might connect, provide access to, curate, use, and preserve the deluge of digital information, and explore what it means for our privacy and our security.
If you are curious about exploring new areas of research with us, take a look at the academic staff profiles on our website and investigate our projects and publications. Feel free to contact us to discuss your interests and to explore what research you might undertake with us.
The Department at King’s is one of the most reputable Digital Humanities centres in the world. It proved to be fertile ground for my research in digital editing and consumption of music scores. The staff are remarkably approachable and helpful. The culture in the department is vibrant, with regular seminars on-site and meet ups outside of working hours. Raffaele Viglianti
For more information about funding: www.kcl.ac.uk/study/pg/funding/sources
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