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Digital Humanities is a field of research and teaching that has been growing dramatically around the world, especially over the past five years. There has been considerable activity at UWS across a number of Schools and Institutes, and in 2012 the University approved the formal establishment of a Research Group in Digital Humanities. The Research Group began operation in early 2013, and is now led by Australia's first Professor of Digital Humanities, Paul Arthur. 

The Research Group is based in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, with strong links to other Schools and Institutes, notably the School of Computing, Engineering and Mathematics and the Institute for Culture and Society. Its initial focus will be to provide a framework for the many relevant digital initiatives and projects under way across the University, but it will also begin to look beyond these. Institutionally it will look to colleagues not yet engaged with digital research methods, and to other areas of the University, to other Australian institutions, and to the very active international digital humanities community. Intellectually, both independently and in collaboration with others, it will look to leading-edge research problems and to challenges as yet unmet within the discipline.

Digital humanities research is by its very nature highly inter-disciplinary and collaborative. An essential role of the Research Group will be to foster and support inter-disciplinary collaboration, and to seek out new, innovative opportunities for such work. Its research will be guided by the following core principles:

  • Academic excellence;
  • Intellectual reach and depth;
  • Interdisciplinary, inter-institutional, international collaboration;
  • Local, national and global engagement;
  • High ethical standards; and
  • Alignment with UWS Mission and Goals.
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