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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 […]

Data Schools at the University of Cambridge started in 2019, with the aim of putting research methods and tools in the hands of practitioners in the Galleries, Libraries, Archives, and Museums (GLAM) sector, journalists, and NGOs. A very important part was to ​​encourage dialogue between academia, civil society, the public sector and industry about the […]