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Dr Alexis Litvine was awarded a CDH Bid Development Award in 2021.  The funding helped Alexis and his team prepare a bid to develop an innovative approach to game-based learning. The collaborative project would benefit students, teachers, and game designers. A game prototype articulates multiple causal chains in a game format, allowing students to explore […]

On 22 June 2022, the public event Grassroots Data Wranglers took place as part of Cambridge Digital Humanities’ (CDH) Social Data School 2022. The main speakers in this public event were grassroots researchers who have challenged conventions of data collection and have done it, sometimes in opposition to established data gatekeepers, to shed light on […]

By Malik Al Nasir Malik Al Nasir is a third-year PhD candidate at the University of Cambridge’s faculty of history. His research entitled Kinship Networks and Mercantile Hegemony in the Latter Days of British Slavery – The Case of Sandbach Tinne, c. 1790-1840 is derived from his longstanding desire to trace his own mixed ancestry […]