Data, Culture and Society: Critical Perspectives. A National Graduate School in Digital Humanities

Studying the nexus of data, culture and society is purported to be a success factor for value creation in a world of fast-pacing technology.

Despite the fact that digital humanities projects and programmes exist in Sweden, there are no doctoral schools deepening knowledge and developing networks in relation to digital research, its methods, tools and perspectives.

The focus of the DigitAl HumanitieS Graduate ScHool (thereon DASH) is to equip PhD candidates in humanities and social sciences, allocated across Sweden with knowledge and skills necessary to pursue high quality, innovative and critical research.

DASH is targeting PhD candidates in the humanities and social sciences who do not yet possess specific computational or technical knowledge or skills, but who are interested to learn more with the purpose of applying this to their future thesis work.

The aim is to introduce the participants to computational methods from a critical humanities and social sciences perspective and to increase collaboration nationally and internationally.

DASH will significantly strengthen the future supply of competent researchers in the field by connecting the candidates across Sweden via PhD masterclasses at each partner institution, a summer school in digital methods for humanities and social sciences.

It would additionally offer a one-stop shop for selected existing resources (courses, seminars, workshops) within partner universities Uppsala, Umeå, Linnaeus and Gothenburg.