VICTEUR

ERC-funded study combining data analytics and literary criticism to investigate representations of migrants and by migrants in Victorian fiction. The study will involve text analysis of nearly 36,000 digitised books in the British Library Nineteenth Century Corpus, using big data to address how migration impacts on the cultural identity of both migrant and host communities in the historical long-term.

FLEXI

ERC project investigating how law texts were (re)produced, studied, and transmitted in mediaeval Ireland. This ground-breaking attempt to synthesise philology, comparative legal history, network theories, and digital techniques will revolutionise the research of mediaeval law texts, offering a digital solution to the processing of early Irish texts and revealing intertextual relationships hidden from the human eye.

Applying AI to the Printing Press: Transforming Visual Communication During the Protestant Reformation

Led by SFI-IRC Pathway Programme Research Fellow Dr Drew Thomas, this project uses computer vision and deep learning to examine the role of images, illustrations and visual communication in the religious publications during the Protestant Reformation. 

Industrial Memories

A closer look at Ireland’s legacy of institutional child abuse, in response to the Report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (2009). 

Ghostly Irish Fictions

Ghost stories tell of the weight of the past on the present, of the fears and desires of their writers and readers, they remain an essential part of the Irish storytelling tradition. This IRC-funded project brings tales by women writers to a wider audience through open digital resources and aims to further promote engagement with the ghostly fictions of important Irish writers.

Ornamento

UCD pilot project exploring the value of creating a European repository of ornamentation and illustration contained in early-printed books. Currently, it contains close to a quarter of a million ornate letters, ornaments, borders, musical notation, diagrams, and illustrations drawn from Iberian print before 1701.

Joyce's Dublin

An exploration of ‘The Dead,’ a multimedia online project for the UCD Humanites Institute produced by Athena Media.

Nation, Genre and Gender

A comparative social network analysis of Irish and British fiction 1800-1922, across UCD Schools of English, Drama & Film and Computer Science, UCD Humanities Institute and Insight Centre for Data Analytics.

TEXERE

Network weaving together the analogue and the digital, the established and the innovative, to showcase the breadth and depth of Humanities research conducted by faculty at the UCD School of English, Drama and Film, and prompt new forms of creative and critical humanities research.

Media, Encounter, Witness-Troubling Pasts

Research series considering of the aesthetic, political and ethical issues of ‘seeing’ and mediality, coordinated by the UCD Humanities Institute.

Framing Ageing

A digital-based project creating 'a clinical, cultural, and social dialogue,' facilitating methodological exchange between geriatricians, gerontologists, humanities researchers, social scientists, and practitioners, particularly the knowledge transfer potential of humanities research methodologies (historical, narrative, archival) to reframe approaches to ageing. 

UCD Centre for Cultural Analytics

A coherent research ecosystem for the digital humanities, supporting ongoing collaboration, hosting international networks and incubating new projects. 

Digital Cultures

UCD College of Arts and Humanities' pioneering new interdisciplinary approaches to record, shape and develop our digital past, present and futures.

Typhoidland: Informing the future of typhoid control through multi-media outreach

Dúchas: Bringing treasure from the National Folklore Collection at UCD to the public

Dr Kelly Fitzgerald Housing memories: the Dublin Tenements’ Museum

Prof Emilie Pine Communicating the legacy of child abuse and helping victims heal

Assoc Prof Emily Mark Fitzgerald Remembering and commemorating the Irish Famine

Dr Claas Kirchelle

Specialises in the history of microbes, laboratory infrastructures, and the development, marketing, and regulation of antibiotics and vaccines, leads on 'Bugs and Drugs' and Typhoidland projects. 

Dr Lucy Collins

Associate Professor in UCD School of English, Drama and Film, specialises in modern poetry and poetics, co-founder of the Irish Poetry Reading Archive, a national digital repository.

Dr Susan Leavy

Assistant Professor in UCD School of Information and Communication, specialises in artificial intelligence, text mining, cultural analytics and AI Ethics, currently developing frameworks and techniques to mitigate bias in AI.

Dr Dónal Fullam

Assistant Professor in Creative and Cultural Industries at UCD School of Art History and Cultural Policy, specialising in music and art in contemporary algorithmic culture, with a focus on intersections between art and technology.

Prof Gerardine Meaney

Professor of Cultural Theory in UCD School of English, Drama and Film, with specific focus on gender, ethnic and national identities in literature and culture and the application of new digital methodologies to humanities research.

Prof Emilie Pine

Award-winning writer and Professor of Modern Drama at UCD School of English, Drama and Film, specialises in the interdisciplinary study of modern Irish culture, with a focus on witnessing, memory, theatre and film. 

Dr Eugenio Lilli

Specialises in U.S. foreign policy with a focus on cyber security policy, founded the International Studies and Emerging Technologies working group within the British International Studies Association.

Prof Margaret Kelleher

Professor and Chair of Anglo-Irish Literature and Drama at UCD School of English, Drama and Film and board member of the Museum of Literature Ireland, specialised in contemporary Irish fiction, digital humanities and literary studies.

Dr Derek Greene

Assistant Professor in UCD School of Computer Science with expertise in artificial intelligence and machine learning and their application in fields such as digital humanities, smart agriculture, and political science.