📃 Dr Emrah Atasoy, Digital Humanities Certificate

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

Emrah was the first of this year's DHC 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 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."