The recipients of the annual Department of Digital Humanities Undergraduate Excellence Awards for 2020/21 have been announced.

Recent Digital Humanities & Information Technology (CK118) graduate Daniella Traynor garnered some media attention this summer on account of her engaging final-year project, Exploring SHUA (Socio-economic History of Urban Areas). Exploring SHUA combines Deep Mapping, GIS, and historical archival media to explore socio-economic history through an inviting online experience.

Dr James O'Sullivan (Principal Investigator) and Dr Órla Murphy (Co-Investigator) from the Department of Digital Humanities (School of English & Digital Humanities) at UCC are to lead the Irish contribution to a new project, C21 Editions: Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age (IRC/W001489/1), collaboratively funded by the Irish Research Council (IRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), part of UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Anthem Press has launched a new book, Digital Art in Ireland: New Media & Irish Artistic Practice, edited by UCC lecturer in digital arts and humanities, Dr James O'Sullivan.

We are pleased to announce the publication of Electronic Literature as Digital Humanities: Contexts, Forms, & Practices. Published by Bloomsbury, the collection of essays by e-lit scholars and practitioners is edited by Prof. Dene Grigar, Washington State University Vancouver, and Dr James O’Sullivan, Department of Digital Humanities, University Cork College.

Dr Órla Murphy, Head of the Department of Digital Humanities, will receive a Long Service Award this evening in recognition of her 25 years of service to University College Cork.

The award ceremony that will be streamed online from 6.30pm and can be accessed at the following link: https://www.ucc.ie/en/live/long-service/

Two publications produced within the Department for Digital Humanities at UCC have been recognised at the recent UCC Research Awards. The UCC Research Awards programme recognises those researchers who have made exceptional and very influential research contributions, pushing boundaries, enhancing knowledge and raising the national and international profile of University College Cork.

Two students from the Department of Digital Humanities have been featured in Student Stories during Covid_19, produced by the UCC's Graduate Attributes Programme.

You can read the contributions of Fiona Keeley and Harry McCann as follows:

The inaugural recipients of the annual Department of Digital Humanities Undergraduate Excellence Awards have been announced.  

UCCDH undergraduate student Rachel McCarthy has co-authoed a paper published in Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, one of the leading journals in the field of digital humanities. The paper, entitled "Who Wrote Wuthering Heights?", was co-authored with Dr James O'Sullivan from the Department of Digital Humanities at UCC. Rachel is currently preparing to enter the third year of her studies on the BA in Digital Humanities & Information Technology (CK118).

Max Darby, a graduate of UCC's BA in Digital Humanities & Information Technology (CK118), has been awarded a PhD scholarship as part of the Employment-Based PhD Programme in the College of Arts, Celtic Studies & Social Sciences (CACSSS) at UCC. The programme allows students to conduct research at UCC with support from a partner organisation in the private sector. Max will be working at the Musgrave Group for the duration of his research.

Yasmine Radwan, an undergraduate studying Digital Humanities at UCC, has been included in a new exhibition, 'Muslims of UCC'.

Dr Máirín MacCarron has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in recognition of her contribution to historical scholarship. The Royal Historical Society is committed to championing the interests of the historical profession and the place of history within society and culture. They have a worldwide membership who are engaged in researching, presenting and publishing history.

Today, Prof. Maciej Eder gave a workshop on stylometry at UCC.

Patrick O'Toole, a graduates of UCC's BA in Digital Humanities & Information Technology, has received this year's NUI Club London Award.

UCC's Department of Digital Humanities was recognised at this year's Cork Ambassador Awards, hosted by the Cork Convention Bureau, for hosting the Electronic Literature Organization Conference & Media Arts Festival in July.

Dr Máirín MacCarron has just published a new book, Bede and Time: Computus, Theology and History in the Early Medieval World (Routledge: Studies in Early Medieval Britain and Ireland, 2020).

The Department of Digital Humanities proudly hosted Ciaran Flynn from Tableau, who delivered a compelling and engaging Workshop in why and how to use Tableau Desktop as a data visualisation and data Dashboarding platform.

Dr Máirín MacCarron has recently returned from a week-long workshop on network science in Porto Alegre, Brazil, as part of her collaborative project, Women, Conflict and Peace: Gendered Networks in Early Medieval Narratives, funded by the Leverhulme Trust.

The Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK (AHRC) and the Irish Research Council (IRC) are collaborating on a new programme that aims to deliver a transformational impact on Digital Humanities research in the UK and Ireland. The programme will exploit complementary strengths in the Digital Humanities between world-leading centres of excellence in the UK and Ireland, leading to new partnerships and cross-disciplinary projects, building capacity and enhancing the integration of humanities and technology in Digital Humanities development. A networking event intended to shape the collaboration was hosted at Dublin City University last week, where Dr Órla Murphy, Head of Digital Humanities at University College Cork, acted as co-facilitator alongside her UK counterpart, Durham University's Prof. Clare Warwick.

ACERR, the Arts and Culture in Education Research Repository, was launched this week in Dublin. Dr Órla Murphy, Head of Digital Humanities, and Catherine Bourne, a PhD candidate in the department, were in attendance for the event, having contributed to the project's development. ACERR is an association of institutions committed to upholding the principles of the Arts in Education Charter and the Creative Ireland Programme, promoting Arts and Cultural Education and Arts in Education Research. ACERR has joined the Digital Repository of Ireland as a member in order to securely deposit materials relating to arts and culture in education in a trusted digital repository. Chaired by a Steering Group representing over 10 National Cultural and Educational institutions, ACERR intends to facilitate long-term preservation of arts and culture in education content from a broad range of backgrounds.

UCCDH-affiliated Professor Brendan Dooley has been awarded an Advanced Laureate Award of €1 million to conduct ground breaking research over the next for years. The EURONEWS project is about exploring the information connectedness of premodern European society by examining the regular circulation of news in a vast range of pre-newspaper networks. The manuscript newsletters in question are located largely in some 200 file folders in Florence. Researchers responsible for a selection of these will be working closely with the EURONEWS team, the State Archives in Florence, as well as the Medici Archive Project organization, to implement a systematic extraction method for making sense of the whole mass of documentation and connecting the dots in an expanding pattern of exchanges stretching from Florence to Warsaw, from Paris to Madrid, from the Netherlands to Britain, Ireland and the American colonies. The project's ultimate goal, made feasible for the first time by this funding, is to reconstruct the fascinating news environment of an entire lost world, early modern Europe, at the birth of news.

This Thursday at UCC we celebrated the launch of the UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning Videos that are a result of a collaboration between Cork a UNESCO City of Learning, and UIL, the UNESCO Institute of Lifelong Learning, in Hamburg.

UCC is a proud partnere within this project team along with CIT and Cork City Council. This ongoing partnership demonstrates UCC's commitment to UNESCO's Sustainable Development Goals, the "SDGs" an ongoing commitment which is foregrounded in the university's new academic strategy for The Connected University.

Our University is committed to welcoming all members of the community and opening our doors to learners at many different stages. How better to showcase this engagement and participation than through the co-creation of these videos that will travel around the world? These videos are created to inspire many other cities to follow the example of Cork and develop their own commitment to lifelong learning, to plan for learning, to encourage accessibility to learning, to celebrate learning in all its many forms.