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Wellcome Calls for Proposals!
I’m excited to share two requests for proposals (RfP) that have been published on the Wellcome Contract opportunities website. Under “Discovery Research” section, you can check out two calls for proposals to conduct landscaping work into the use of archive, manuscript, and material culture resources, as well as new forms of social data resources for life, health, and wellbeing discovery research across humanities and social sciences. We aim to commission a supplier or group of suppliers for up to a 6-month contract to produce a comprehensive report that will address the following objectives, such as understanding the challenges/barriers to be tackled in order to significantly enhance approaches to using these resources in research in the UK and globally; detailing the approaches, capabilities, technologies and data that could contribute to solving the challenges/barriers to maximise this research; and defining the opportunities for transformative life, health and wellbeing research that would be enabled by working towards the goal of significantly enhancing approaches to using these resources and data. The deadline for submitting proposals for each RfP is 25 July 2024.
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Special issue on critical technical practices
The long-awaited special issue on critical technical practices in digital research and beyond has been published in the Convergence journal. I’m pleased to contribute to this issue with an article on the critical study of documents produced in digital research production. I propose using the method of the “STS of documents” to analyse feasibility documents that aim to assess technical and design requirements based on research questions and to organise a project workflow. It is an open-access publication, so you can find it here: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565221111073
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Routledge book is out!
It’s been a while since I last posted, and quite a lot of things have happened. One thing is the publication of my book, “Digital Humanities and Laboratories: Perspectives on Knowledge, Infrastructure and Culture” by Routledge at the beginning of this year. You can find out more about the book at the Routledge website. In short, it aims to explore laboratories dedicated to the study of digital humanities (DH) in a global context and contribute to the expanding body of knowledge about situated DH knowledge production. I’m proud of this book and honoured to have a foreword by Prof. David Berry. The book features contributions from a diverse, international range of scholars and practitioners. Some chapters are available on an open-access basis, including an introduction by Christopher Thomson and me. So please check them out here: https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003185932/digital-humanities-laboratories-christopher-thomson-urszula-pawlicka-deger
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New job at Wellcome
The past few months have been quite busy leaving me with little time to update my website. So much has happened, and it’s been an incredible journey. First and foremost, I completed my Marie Curie fellowship at King’s College London, a truly great experience. I worked with wonderful people, learned a lot and produced a significant number of outputs that I’m proud of. I’m also thrilled to share that my book for Routledge has reached the production phase (more about it soon).
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Interviews published in Zenodo
As part of my Marie Curie research, I conducted a set of interviews with members of King’s Digital Lab, management staff and researchers involved in the lab work. Discussions revolved around the institutional, research, and socio-technical infrastructure of King’s College London and King’s Digital Lab, the social practices of digital projects, the use of digital tools in everyday research practices and the challenges of conducting research with regard to the lab management, organisation, policies, and facilities. The transcripts of the interviews are available in Zenodo here.