Cambridge Digital Humanities

Cambridge Digital Humanities (CDH) is an interdisciplinary research and teaching centre at the University of Cambridge, established in 2017. CDH successfully launched its MPhil in Digital Humanities in 2022, which is administered in the Faculty of English. The newly developed PhD in Digital Humanities welcomes its first cohort of research students in October 2024. We define Digital Humanities as encompassing work on the cultural, social, and epistemic impacts of digital technologies (around data, on everyday life, in relation to literary, cultural forms, medium studies, including issues of technocratic rationality, power and justice); digital research methodologies; computational humanities; digital libraries and archival-based research; digital performance, and exhibition (including in cultural institutions); and research exploring cultural and social impacts of emerging technologies – notably around data, and AI informed developments in, for example, face recognition, automatic writing and the social/cultural impacts of robotics. CDH collaborates with researchers to generate and develop Digital Humanities scholarship across the arts and humanities. We develop and deliver research projects, explore emerging research areas, and collaborate with international partners. We work with Cambridge University Library and the Digital Library, Cambridge University collections, CRASSH, the Faculty of English, and with multiple other faculties and research centres. We collaborate with a wide range of international partners in Europe and the US and a priority is to develop deeper Global South links. Our aim is to further an expansive form of Digital Humanities that encompasses work with collections, literature as digital humanities, global digital humanities, critical media theorisation, digital media, methodological advancement, future and emerging technologies including AI and machine learning.