This event spans multiple dates:
24 Jul 2023 - 25 Jul 2023 9.30am – 4.00pm Online
27 Jul 2023 - 28 Jul 2023 10.00am – 5.00pm Cambridge, UK

Description

Cambridge Digital Humanities is pleased to announce that registration is now open for the Digital Humanities Research Software Engineering Summer School taking place on 24–25 July 2023 (online) and 27–28 July 2023 (Cambridge). The Summer School is co-organised by Cambridge Digital Humanities (Mary Chester-Kadwell), Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society (Lucia Michielin), King’s Digital Lab (Neil Jakeman) and The Alan Turing Institute (Federico Nanni). It was last hosted by The Alan Turing Institute in 2021 as a virtual online event. 

The Summer School 2023, hosted by Cambridge Digital Humanities, combines 2 days of online talks and 2 days of in-person workshops in Cambridge (by application). Participants will have an opportunity to gain an invaluable insight into the roles and practices of the Research Software Engineer in Digital Humanities research. Topics include careers in RSE, project life cycle, rapid prototyping, collaborative coding, testing practices, containers and serverless, high-performance computing, structure from motion (3D) and teaching computational methods. 

This event is aimed at those who have an interest in becoming a Research Software Engineer in the humanities, or using research software engineering practices in their current or future role. It is ideal for those who already have some experience of coding and may be familiar with some computational methods within humanities projects. Participants may be digital humanities scholars, early career researchers, postgraduate students, data scientists, software engineers in other disciplines considering a move into humanities, or have another similar role within higher education or collections institutions.

The 2 days of online talks are free of charge but with a limit on numbers. The 2 days of in-person hands-on workshops are by application and carry a small fee (£60) to cover catering for the event.


Structure

Online talks: 24–25 July, 9.30am–4.00pm
In-person workshops: 27–28 July, 10.00am–5.00pm
There are no events on Wednesday 26 July.

Note: content and timings may be subject to change.

In-person workshops will be held in the Institute of Criminology, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA, United Kingdom.

If you are planning to attend the in-person workshops, you will need to book your own travel and accommodation. You can look for accommodation on the following sites:


Who can apply?

This event is aimed at those who have an interest in becoming a Research Software Engineer in the humanities, or using research software engineering practices in their current or future role. It is ideal for those who already have some experience of coding and may be familiar with some computational methods within humanities projects. Participants may be digital humanities scholars, early career researchers, postgraduate students, data scientists, software engineers in other disciplines considering a move into humanities, or have another similar role within higher education or collections institutions.

Participants with some experience of the topics taught at the Oxford Digital Humanities Summer School will possess the knowledge to participate in this Summer School. The Summer School positions itself in between the approaches offered by The Programming Historian and the Turing Research Software Engineering Course with Python. It is meant to help prepare those who have worked in Digital Humanities for a few years to support them in moving into Research Software Engineering or to adopt RSE practices deeply into their technical research practice. Please note that coding itself will not be taught as you should already be familiar with a programming language (preferably with some knowledge of Python).

We are committed to facilitate participation by women, Black and minority ethnic applicants as they have historically been under-represented in the technology and data science sectors. We also welcome applications from outside the UK for the two days of the Summer School in-person workshops, assuming applicants can travel to Cambridge. Workshop sessions will not be recorded and therefore live attendance is required.


Workshop teaching team

  • Levan Bokeria (Research Data Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute)
  • Lydia France (Research Data Scientist, The Alan Turing Institute)
  • Mary Chester-Kadwell (Senior Software Developer, Cambridge University Library & Lead Research Software Engineer, Cambridge Digital Humanities)
  • Jonathan Blaney (Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer, Cambridge Digital Humanities)
  • Neil Jakeman (Senior Research Software Analyst, King’s Digital Lab)
  • Jessica Witte (Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society)
  • Lucia Michielin (Digital Skills Training Manager, Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society)

Fees

£60 per person for 2 days of in-person workshop. The online-only talks are free of charge.

This fee covers around 12 hours of sessions, access to teaching resources, help and discussions from practitioners and peers, and catering (refreshments and one lunch sandwich buffet per day).

Participants need to bring a laptop with them to the Summer School on which they have the right to install software. We will not provide any equipment but WiFi will be available in the University premises.

Please note that in the event of the Summer School being cancelled by us, we will refund your registration fee, but we will not be liable for any other costs you have incurred – travel, accommodation, visas etc. We suggest taking out insurance that will cover you in the event of a cancellation. Please see our Terms and Conditions for details of refund policies for Data School tuition fees.

Terms and Conditions can be found here: RSE Summer School Terms and Conditions 


Deadline for applications: 23 May 2023.

Applications have closed.


Contact

office@cdh.cam.ac.uk

How to apply

Deadline for applications: 23 May 2023.

Applications have now closed.


Terms and Conditions can be found here.

Contact

office@cdh.cam.ac.uk

Programme

Find the latest timetable on GitHub.

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Cambridge Digital Humanities

Tel: +44 1223 766886
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