📃 Shazana Shajahan, Digital Arts and Humanities Certificate

Undergraduate, English and Comparative Literary Studies, 2022-2025.

"After watching the DAHL shorts and longs, and completing the summaries after each video, I found that I was introduced to many new, different online software. I was particularly intrigued by the coding DAHL short which explained the process behind curating multiple choice questions, and this is a pathway which I would like to potentially put more research into. To add to this, the virtual reality platforms, especially the AI comedy show would be a platform I am keen on exploring in the future. However, for my final report, I decided to pursue the software Miro and Mindomo."

📃 Ruth-Anne Walbank, Digital Arts and Humanities Certificate

Doctoral Researcher (2022-2026), English and Comparative Literary Studies.

"Uncover a forgotten piece of working-class history through poetry, newspapers, and more.
Join Ruth-Anne to explore the Lancashire Cotton Famine in a six-episode mini-series of podcastsLink opens in a new window. Learn from
Lancashire locals and leading experts about how the cotton weaving industry in North-West England
connected to the American Civil War, the fight against slavery, and Victorian literature."

📃 Dr Emrah Atasoy, Digital Arts and Humanities Certificate

EUTOPIA-SIF Fellow / Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow in the Institute for Advanced Studies.

Emrah was the first of this year's cohort to complete the certificate. In his reflective essay he wrote:

"This project questions why dystopia today is more powerful (pessimism and despair) than utopia (optimism and hope). It highlights the need to adopt a different approach for a possible paradigm shift and to shape the future more innovatively. Through the illustration of various utopian & dystopian portrayals in fiction and film via the use of Miro & mapping, the promotion of utopian, hopeful, and imaginative thinking in an age of climate crisis and other types of crises in a way that is accessible to both an academic audience and the general public
is aimed."

📃 Dr Ute Oswald, Digital Arts and Humanities Certificate

IAS Early Career Fellow and Associate Fellow, Centre for the History of Medicine

In her reflective essay Ute wrote that:

"I discovered Miro and its different templates and used a couple to get random ideas on sticky notes, just to collect them. I also used one of the templates to reflect on the difficulties I had with the project. The more I used Miro, the more the ideas flowed. I find this way of digital brainstorming very liberating, in a strange way. I then used Mindomo, to take this further. I really enjoyed creating the mind-map and all of a sudden, the structure of my chapter became clear, as I was able to add sub-topics and then sub-sub topics."

📃 Maialen Maugars, Digital Arts and Humanities Certificate

Doctoral researcher (2024), collaborative Doctoral Award project between the University of Warwick and Birmingham Museums

"Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery is currently undergoing refurbishment, and parts of the collection will soon be re-displayed in the galleries. However, some objects will inevitably remain in storage, preventing visitors from understanding how large, and varied the collection is. My project will therefore consist in a digital exhibition featuring my thesis’ ten case studies. It will be built on Omeka S and will include pictures, metadata about the objects, a 200-words description of each object, and a glossary of the art dealers who supplied items to BMAG. I am also considering, if the technology allows it, to add a map and a timeline created on KnightLab to illustrate the collection’s acquisition and provenance."

📃 Hadijah Namyalo-Ganafa, Digital Arts and Humanities Certificate

Doctoral Researcher (2024)

"The most fascinating thing about Miro (online collaborative whiteboard platform) was its ability to secure virtual contributions from researchers and collaborators. This is a breakthrough for populations in Africa especially workers in Public Service whose travel budgets were scrapped to deal with the economic difficulties that were brought forth during the Covid-19 period. I utilised Miro in one of my seminars because some students are shy and feel too uncomfortable to express themselves in class. The shy students showed confidence and they willingly participated without being prompted. I hope to use Miro for conferences, collaboration projects, and teaching. I plan to use the cone of plausibility and empathic journey map while making presentations about my PhD field work findings."

📃 Dr Tara Morton

Honorary Research Fellow, History Department. Fellow, Warwick Institute of Engagement.

"Mapping Women’s Suffrage (MWS) is a digital web mapping project set within a public facing website with social media facilities. Its aim is to plot and record the lives and locations of votes for women campaigners in villages towns and cities across the country at the height of the women’s movement in 1911. The project has developed organically, is open ended and ongoing. I developed the idea for the project and worked with a member of the academic technologies team at Warwick University to create it. Currently, I manage the project which chiefly entails inputting all submitted data for the project into Omeka; creating website content and digital media; maintaining existing and establish new relationships with experts and volunteers, nationally and locally for public project work."

📃 Shekinah Vera-Cruz

Doctoral Researcher, Classics (2024)

"I’m glad that I participated in the project and that I attended the DAHL learning sessions. I learned a lot about the tools that are available for pursuing the digital humanities and the sessions offered by experts certainly helped to demystify these softwares, tools, and applications, allowing me to feel more confident in approaching them. Additionally, if I’m unsure about a particular tool, many of those who ran sessions expressed that they would be happy to be contacted for further discussion and consultation. As such, my network of academics and students who are interested in digital humanities has expanded, which is an invaluable resource, well beyond the scope of the specific project I decided to pursue."