Overview

Key Facts

Digital Humanities is an interdisciplinary subject area that brings a range of computational, quantitative and other innovative and collaborative methods to the study of texts, images, histories, languages and cultures, while also being critical about methodology, disciplinarity and pedagogy.

Digital Humanities in the School of Advanced Study, University of London demonstrates the value of digital research to the wider humanities community and fulfils the School’s remit to promote and facilitate digitally enabled research across the disciplines. The School’s multidisciplinary DH team comprises academics with strong connections to subject areas including Classics, English, History and Modern Languages and Cultures, as well as researchers and practitioners with technical backgrounds.

Programme Structure

Recent research in the Hub has included:

Humanities approaches to the archived web

Analysing COVID misinformation on social media

The transnational comparison of parliamentary proceedings

Computational text analysis of the 1921 Census records

The application of digital methods to papyrology

Digital resources in cultural heritage institutions

Multilingual analysis of contemporary news coverage using natural language processing

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months
Part-time
- 60 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2024-09-23 00:00:00
- Apply before 2024-07-31 00:00:00
Starting 2025-01-08 00:00:00
- Apply before 2024-11-30 00:00:00

Language

English

IELTS

7

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Delivered

On Campus, Online

Disciplines

Liberal Arts Human Computer Interaction View 49 other PhDs in Liberal Arts in United Kingdom

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

IELTS

7

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Student insurance

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Additional medical costs (i.e. dental)
Repatriation, if something happens to you or your family
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Home contents and baggage
Accidents
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Other requirements

General requirements

Before submitting an application you are advised to contact a member of academic staff who has interests in your proposed field of study to discuss your proposal. Please speak first to Valerie James, manager, Central Academic Initiatives, School of Advanced Study.

Before agreeing to accept you, the School will require you to submit a research proposal, so it is worthwhile having this drafted ahead of a formal application.

Tuition Fee

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International

15810 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 15810 GBP per year during 36 months.
National

6253 GBP/year

Tuition Fee

Based on the tuition of 6253 GBP per year during 36 months.

Living costs for London

1137 - 2157 GBP /month

Living costs

The living costs include the total expenses per month, covering accommodation, public transportation, utilities (electricity, internet), books and groceries.

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Scholarships Information

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