The Digital Scholarship Skills workshop provides a welcoming environment for faculty, staff and students to learn about new research methodologies utilising digital research tools. It is an initiative of the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities in coordination with the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies.
The workshop series is open to faculty, staff, researchers and postgraduate students and may be attended as either ‘a la carte’ (where participants have a particular interest in a single or multiple sessions), or as a 5 ECTS module to be applied to the taught course requirements in a structured PhD. In both terms, participants will learn alongside students registered in Trinity’s Postgraduate Programme in Digital Humanities and Culture.
Objective: To introduce participants from a diverse range of backgrounds to digital research-related skills and tools with a specific focus on developing a greater understanding and appreciation of how the digital is shaping and influencing scholarship.
Description: The module comprises a suite of workshops to support the development of the critical understanding and practical skills needed to make best use of digital research tools in the context of humanities research. The content will focus each term on four skill-building tracks, some more theoretical, others focusing on key competencies and environments for digital research. Topics will be different each term, to reflect both demand and capacity in the Trinity Centre for Digital Humanities.
Duration: The workshops will run in both Michaelmas and Hilary terms and can be taken for 5 credits per term.
Assessment: In order to accrue the 5 ECTS, participants will be expected to attend at least four workshop sessions and complete the course assessments. Workshop participation will be assessed as a module in the following manner:
a) Completion of the assignment associated with each session attended, which may involve the creation of a software artefact or the composition of a short reflective pieces (up to 500 words each, 80% contribution to the final mark).
b) Literature review (up to 1500 words) of one of the topics covered in the workshop series (20% contribution to final mark).
PhD students looking to complete the workshop series for credit should speak in the first instance to their supervisor or DPGTL.
For staff and students attending the module, places will be allocated on a first come first served basis. Please note that there is limited availability of non-credit places and there is a zero tolerance policy for those who commit to a workshop but do not attend.
For further information about the workshop series, please contact Jennifer Edmond (edmondj@tcd.ie)
Details of the past Workshop Series options for the Michaelmas Term 2022 and Hilary Term 2023 are available here.