Focussed around four main research areas, the theme can call upon the skills off colleagues from all of the University’s faculties: Science and Engineering; Health and Life Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences. Our focus research areas are:
- Digital Humanities: incorporating history and sociology
- Digital Society: incorporating sociology, communication studies, law
- Digital Culture: incorporating languages and cultures, architecture, archaeology.
- Digital Economics: incorporating business, economics and marketing
The University of Liverpool is well placed to host such a research centre, with several colleagues focusing heavily on digital themes. These include Barry Godfrey and the £1.7m ‘Digital Panopticon’ project, Clair Taylor, who chairs the AHRC Digital Transformations Advisory Group, and Simeon Yates who leads the ESRC commissioned project ‘Ways of Being in a Digital Age’.
The Digital Media & Society Institute, which opened in 2024, is also a groundbreaking new home for digital research at the University. The DMSI aims to understand the role of digital media in society and its impact on individuals, communities, nations and the world.
With researchers across the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty, and indeed across the University, the theme will provide research leadership and infrastructural support for researchers from a range of disciplines who employ digital techniques and technologies in their work.