Author archives: Department of Digital Humanities

New Funding Opportunity: King’s-Ramón Areces Foundation PhD Scholarship (K-FRA)

The Department of Digital Humanities is delighted to announce a prestigious new doctoral scholarship scheme, offered in partnership with the Ramón Areces Foundation. The King’s–Ramón Areces Foundation PhD Scholarship Programme (K-FRA) is designed to support a researcher of Spanish nationality in undertaking full-time doctoral study within our department, starting in October 2026. A comprehensive support package …

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Best overall student in MA Digital Humanities, 2024-2025

Congratulations to Kesara Ariyapongpairoj for being awarded “Best Overall Student in the MA Digital Humanities” in 2024-2025. 🎊 Kesara is a MA Digital Humanities graduate from King’s College London with a background in Philosophy. Her research focuses on how digital media and emerging technologies have transformed the production and dissemination of information, and the socio-political …

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‘Gather, explore, collaborate’ – new toolkit to enrich digital culture research at King’s

KingsCAT is a cross-faculty initiative coordinated by the Digital Future Institute’s Centre for Digital Culture and the Department of Digital Humanities in collaboration with e-Research and colleagues from multiple institutes, centres, departments and schools at King’s.

Imaginative Digital Futures: a symposium, 27 November 2024

What will our future look like? Will it have to be digital? What role will biotech, screen media and AI play in it? Can we imagine better futures with and around digital technology? Can we design those futures in a collaborative way? Hosted by the Department of Digital Humanities and the Centre for Attention Studies …

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Dr Nick Srnicek awarded Honorary Professorship from the University of Buenos Aires

During his first visit to Argentina, Dr Nick Srnicek delivered a lecture on the relationship between political economy and new technology. Left to right: Emiliano Yacobitti, Vice-Rector of the University of Buenos Aires, and Dr Nick Srnicek, Senior Lecturer in Digital Economy at King’s College London. Photo credit: Guillermo Llamos Dr Nick Srnicek, Senior Lecturer …

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Professor Dame Janet (Jinty) Nelson DBE FRHistS FBA 1942-2024

Professor Dame Janet Nelson, 2019. Image: John Deehan for the Royal Historical Society Jinty, as she was known, was a distinguished medieval history scholar of international standing as well as an inspirational colleague and teacher. Her life and career will be celebrated by her colleagues in the Department of History – see their tribute  here …

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troubling AI: a call for screenshots 📸

How can screenshots trouble our understanding of AI? To explore this, researchers in the Department of Digital Humanities are launching a call for screenshots as part of a collaboration with the Digital Futures Institute’s Centre for Digital Culture and Centre for Attention Studies at King’s College London, the médialab at Sciences Po, Paris and the Public Data Lab. Further details can be found copied below. …

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Welcome to Marta Arisi, visiting PhD at the Department of Digital Humanities ✨

We are delighted to announce that Marta Arisi will be joining us from Sciences Po as a visiting PhD researcher at the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London. During her stay she will be working with Jonathan Gray and exploring collaborations with researchers in the department and the Centre for Digital Culture. Marta comments: “Through my …

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King’s Engaged Research Awards for collaborative project to develop arts-, research- and community-based responses to anti-Asian racism

A collaboration led by researchers at DDH and CMCI to develop arts-, research- and community-based responses to anti-Asian racism has been recognised with a King’s Engaged Research Award in the Local Collaborations category: I, Human: Becoming Visible (IHBV) was a collaborative, creative project organised by King’s College London; City, University of London and Moongate Productions, working with …

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