The PhD in Digital Humanities, run by Cambridge Digital Humanities and based in the Faculty of English, is a research-intensive programme that will enable students to engage at doctoral level with projects demanding the use of digital methods and tools or adopting criticaltheoretical orientations. The programme expands the humanities offering at research postgraduate level at Cambridge by offering a route for cross-disciplinary engagement, responding to the growth of the field of Digital Humanities as a research area.

The programme is designed to enable students from many areas of the arts and humanities to develop practical skills and knowledge and to generate the necessary critical literacy to understand and engage with digital research, and digital cultures, and to respond to questions that arise around AI, the ethics of automation, algorithmic analysis, privacysurveillance, online cultures, data sharing, intelligent agency and creativity, archival justice and digital histories, and to explore work in relation to collections and heritage issues. Through supervisions and technical support from a research software engineer, contextualised by a research culture providing research-led seminars and lectures, guest seminars, and practice-driven workshops, Cambridge Digital Humanities provides the conditions for original PhD research in DH or in other arts and humanitiessocial science disciplines that make a significant intervention into shaping the field.

The course aims to:

Enable students to engage at doctoral level with projects that require the use and generation of digital methods, tools, approaches, andor of criticaltheoretical orientations.
Expand the humanities offering at research postgraduate level at Cambridge by providing a cross-disciplinary route for engagement, responding to the growth of the field of Digital Humanities as a research area.
Enable humanities and social science-trained students to develop critical literacy and practical skills and knowledge to understand and engage with digital materials and methods for studying matters relevant to the humanities.
Provide the conditions to enable the production of original PhD research in Digital Humanities or other arts and humanitiessocial science disciplines that make a significant intervention into shaping the field.
Respond to the need for the humanities to grapple with emerging forms, practices, and social formations shaped in a digital age.

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