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Projects

The Digital Humanities and Social Sciences encompasses many projects from across the University of Liverpool.

Take a closer look at just some of the projects we've been working on recently.

Heritage & Digital Technologies

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Digital Panopticon

The Digital Panopticon project traces the lives of 90,000 people sentenced to transportation to Australia from Britain between 1841 and 1911, with the information freely available on a public website.
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Online Froissart

An ambitious project digitising the works of Jean Froissart, a prominent late-medieval chronicler, author and poet. The project will provide a valuable resource for scholars of the period, bringing together previously scattered materials in a single online resource.
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Tracing the Past

Drs Alex Buchanan, Senior Lecturer in Archive Studies, and Nick Webb, Lecturer in the School of Architecture, use the latest digital scanning technologies to unlock the secrets of medieval architects and stone masons.
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Nineteenth-Century Criminal Tattoos

This British Academy-funded project seeks to better understand the remarkable increase in tattooing among convicts in the nineteenth century by analysing tattoos on 60,700 convicts in Britain and Australia from 1788 to 1925.
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Photogrammetry

The photogrammetry team is a student-centred research group based at the Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology department.

Big Data

Digital Inclusion

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Developing a minimum digital living standard for households with children

Capturing the minimum basket of digital goods, skills and services households need in order to have an adequate quality of life and participate in society.
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Digital Inclusion Policy & Research Conference 2021

This conference reviewed the current state of the art in digital inclusion policy and practice, with special reference to impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Ways of Being in a Digital Age

The University, with other partner organisations and universities, is leading the ESRC review on ‘Ways of Being in a Digital Age'. This will provide a view of how digital technology mediates our lives.
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Digital Inclusion Policy & Research Conference 2022

Exploring the challenges of and possible solutions to digital exclusion across multiple areas of society
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Digital inclusion for survivors of modern slavery

Providing survivors of trafficking with access to online support services to help them recover and reintegrate into society.
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GMCA Digital inclusion social housing project

The project will link up 5,000 households, across five social housing providers with five Internet Service Providers.
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Reuse of IT for social good

Identifying the barriers that prevent the recycling of IT equipment for reuse for social good.
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Digital Inclusion and Digital Literacy Policy Projects

Guiding policy and practical interventions aimed at reducing digital inequalities in the UK.

Critical Digital Culture/s

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Being Alone Together: Developing Fake News Immunity

This collaborative project between the Universities of Liverpool and Dundee aims to help citizens critically understand and engage with the information manipulations they encounter online, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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NewsWise in Primary Education

Exploring the impact of a news and digital literacy project.
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Healthcare communications and information distortion in crisis situations: The case of COVID-19 in Merseyside

Investigating the impact of COVID-19 on communities in Merseyside.
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#Lads on Social Media: Investigating Young Networked Masculinities

Exploring how young men use social media to form and develop their masculinised identifications, connections and networks, particularly those that centre around ‘laddish’ identities.
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The Centre for Architecture and Visual Arts (CAVA)

CAVA supports researchers interested in exploring the representation of and engagement with architectural and urban forms, narratives and practices, especially in areas such as film, photography, city branding and the digital and physical space.