DCCH/PRiA Workshop: Using the Gale Digital Scholar Lab to enhance students’ research skills in AHC

Bringing digital humanities into the classroom is an exciting discipline-specific way to develop research skills and enhance digital literacy within the arts and humanities. This workshop will explore how to use textual analysis and data exploration in your teaching, through the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. You may already be familiar with the Gale online archives – such as Eighteenth-Century Collections Online, the Times Digital Archive or the Archives of Sexuality and Gender, all of which are available through the Brotherton Library. Now, through use of the Digital Scholar Lab, these archives can be studied in brand-new ways.

This workshop, co-organised by the Digital Creativity and Cultures Hub (DCCH) and Pedagogic Research in the Arts (PRiA) will consider the following questions:

1. How can we support and develop research skills and digital capabilities for students in AHC?

2. In what specific ways can using the Gale Digital Scholar Lab support the development of research skills and digital capabilities?

3. How might we research the use of the GDSL in teaching?

Led by Chris Houghton (Gale), and featuring Dr Rosalyn Cousins (Digital Education Service) and Dr Emily Bell (English), this workshop will introduce text and data mining, and what they can be used for in research and teaching; explore the teaching and support materials available to support using the Lab in teaching; and explore case studies from colleagues who have already used the Lab in teaching.

Please bring a laptop.  To register please complete the form here. This is an in person event and places are limited to 30.  A UoL email address is required to register.

For further questions, please contact PRIACentre@leeds.ac.uk