Digital Arts & Humanities PhD
What is DAH?
DAH is a four-year structured doctoral research-training programme designed to enable students to carry
out research in the arts and humanities at the highest level using new media and computer technologies.
DAH at NUI Maynooth
DAH students at NUI Maynooth are part of An Foras Feasa's research institute which has state-of-the-art
research and teaching facilities in the university's newly-opened Iontas building and a dynamic postgraduate
community. Students participate in a collaborative Structured Phd Programme with co-registration in An Foras Feasa and a participating academic department (e.g. English, Music, Media Studies, History, Celtic Studies, Modern Languages). An Foras Feasa specialises in the integration of humanities research with information and communications technologies; particular research strengths in the Institute and its partner departments include digital imaging, digital critical editions, data modeling, digital archives and repository development, humanities computing, software engineering, music technology and multimedia.
Learn Digital Humanities: MA in Digital Humanities
Digital Humanities is a growing teaching and research specialism internationally, and a dynamic emerging discipline. In Ireland, NUI Maynooth is the only university to offer an undergraduate module on Humanities Computing and is the first to introduce an MA in Digital Humanities which provides a key bridge between undergraduate qualifications and postgraduate attainment.
The MA in Digital Humanities is designed to fill an identified gap in current educational and professional provision, one which An Foras Feasa is uniquely positioned to fill. It is designed for graduates both in the Humanities and in the Computing Sciences, integrating the needs, practices and challenges of humanities research with new methodologies, theories and practices in Information Communications Technologies. The programme will be of benefit to students wishing to embark in such careers as information management or as software engineers, or educators; to existing practitioners in all of these fields who seek further professional development; and or humanities computing dimension.
The MA programme includes modules which will be of benefit to PhD students in other departments of the Faculty of Arts, seeking specialist, advanced digital humanities training as part of their structured Phd programmes. It is envisaged, for example, that modules such as AFF606 (Texts and Textuality) or AFF609 (Creating Digital Humanities Artefacts) may be taken by doctoral students in the School of Celtic Studies, working on digital editions of texts or digital artefacts. Module AFF603 'Modeling Humanities Data' has many potential applications to doctoral history projects, and builds on many years of collaborative work between An Foras Feasa and colleagues in the Department of History.
Current thesis topics being undertaken by students on the MA in Digital Humanities include:
- The Digitisation of the Henry Morris Collection
- Gaming as a Method of Research in the Humanities
- Digital History and the Web: 21st Century History and the Creation of an Online Interactive Resource
- Craftsman to Critic: The Annotated Correspondance of Harry Clarke to Thomas Bodkin, 1917-1927 - A Searchable Electronic Database
- Dante and Irish Writers: Comparative Literature and the Digital Humanities
- Digital Archive Database: A Method for Providing the 'Long-term' Survival of an Historical Photographic Collection?
