The University Library are looking to recruit a Research Fellow in Cultural Collections and AI to this role who can design and deliver a project that will enhance our knowledge and contribute to collective understanding of the consequences of the use of Generative AI in relation to the Library's Cultural Collections. This is an exciting...
This role is only open to current students at the University of Leeds or those who have graduated from the University within the last two years. Do you have an interest in cultural collections? Do you want to help others use cultural collections? Do you want to support a team delivering the University’s Digital Library...
We featured in the Faculty's news pages recently with an article about our amazing Intern students and the work they did with us and the impact it had on them. You can read all about it here.
We are pleased to announce that University of Leeds will be hosting the 2025 IIIF (International Image Interoperability Framework) Conference. The conference will take place in-person and we will provide an update when tickets are available. For now, save the dates: 2-5 June 2025. IIIF (pronounced triple-eye-eff) is a set of open standards that enables...
N8 are looking for a community leader who is passionate about Research Data Management (RDM) to organise events and networks in N8 Universities. This is a 0.2FTE role for anyone based at an N8 University who is involved in RDM. More information and job specification: https://n8cir.org.uk/news/join-our-team-research-data-management-theme-lead/ Applicants should send a covering letter and a 2-page CV...
Karen Sayers, Library Archivist, has produced a toolkit for digital humanities projects as part of her National Archives/Research Libraries UK Professional Fellowship ‘Visualising the Medieval Manor’ . The toolkit is published here. Karen identified resources that will help archivists to support researchers and academic staff carrying out digital humanities projects using data by carrying out...
DARIAH is a European Research Infrastructure Consortium (ERIC) whose mission is to empower research communities with digital methods to create, connect and share knowledge about culture and society. In addition to having 22 Member states, DARIAH has also established a network of cooperating partners in non-member countries. DCCH takes a lead on the University's partnership with DARIAH. To find...
The White Rose Universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York are holding a joint one-day symposium in collaboration with Gale to explore the sources and tools available in the Gale Primary Source database and the Gale Digital Scholar Lab. This free, hybrid event will be held at the University of Leeds and online on Thursday 13 June...
Following the success of the corpus linguistics symposium in May 2022, this one-day event brings together researchers who are interested in any aspects of ‘style’ and ‘authorship’ using corpus linguistic and corpus-based methods. Colleagues from across the university from all career stages are invited to present their work and share best practice. Deadline: 3rd April...
5 June 2024, University of Leeds Call for papers: Please submit your paper proposal (around 200-250 words) as one Word file, containing your name, affiliation and a short biography to Olivia Santovetti (O.Santovetti@leeds.ac.uk), Laura Lucia Rossi (L.L.Rossi@leeds.ac.uk) and Alessio Baldini (A.Baldini@leeds.ac.uk) by 8th April 2024. An interdisciplinary discussion on the reception and consumption of narrative...