N8 Digital Humanities Community Day at the University of Leeds

On 8 June 2023 the University of Leeds hosted the N8 CiR consortium’s Digital Humanities community day at the Cloth Hall. Researchers from across the N8 institutions (Universities of Durham, Lancaster, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Sheffield and York) gathered at the University's Cloth Hall Court in Leeds city centre for a series of major research presentations and lightning talks. Projects ranged from the use of Museum social media data to understand audience engagement, to exploring Eighteenth Century political participation and electoral culture, and using digital solutions to map imprecise space and time in textual narratives.

The final roundtable, which featured representatives from across career stages, was chaired by the University of Leeds’s N8 DH Rep Mel Evans (English) and included the DCCH's Academic Lead, Simon Popple. Discussants noted the diversity of projects and the increasingly collaborative and cross-service nature of digital projects, and why we are no longer trying to define the Digital Humanities.