Call for DISKAH Fellowship
Scheme 2025-2026
The DISKAH one-year long fellowships provide an opportunity to broaden engagement with large-scale computational methods via state-of-the-art national digital research infrastructure to support A&H research.
Call details
Launch of DISKAH Fellowship call
27 January 2025
Total Fund
£39,000
Individual fellowship awards
£6,500
Information webinars
12 February 2025, 13:00 (GMT),
26 February 2025, 10:00 (GMT)
Application deadline
3 March 2025, 16:00 (GMT)
Decision communicated
Mid March 2025
Fellowship programme starts
1st April 2025
The DISKAH (Digital Skills for Arts and Humanities) network aims to build capacity amongst Arts and Humanities (A&H) researchers in the use of state-of-the-art national Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) to foster innovation and collaboration.
– What will the programme involve?
What will the programme involve?
– Who can apply?
– How to apply?
– What will the programme involve?
All our workshops use an active learning approach. In active learning, students are not passive in the learning process but engage in instructional activities which allow them to engage in higher-order thinking tasks such as analysis, synthesis, and evaluation (Bonwell, 1991).​
– Who can apply?
DATES
ACTIVITY
LOCATION
– How to apply?
29-30 April
2-day introductory and co-design workshop
BRIGHTON
29-30 April
Access and onboarding to DRI
REMOTE
29-30 April
Independent deployment and testing of research software in DRI
LONDON
29-30 April
Independent deployment and testing of research software in DRI
LONDON
As paid fellowships, DISKAH Fellows are expected to commit up to 165 hours to the programme, including at least 60 hours for independent hands-on experimentation utilising DRI. Fellows will also be expected to co-design the DISKAH curriculum. Training workshops will support Fellows with relevant technical and non-technical skills, including communicating research through academic and non-academic outputs. Fellows are not required to have had prior experience with High-Performance Computing (HPC) but should have some experience creating or contributing to software that supports research.
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The Fellowships will run between April 2025 and March 2026 and successful applicants are expected to commit 165 hours in this time. A flat rate of £6,500 will be provided to fellows’ institutions during the programme. Additional funding is available to attend the programme activities, including network workshops, events and/or activities.
Expected Outcomes
Fellows are expected to develop an independent piece of work utilising DRI to produce an exemplary use-case for DRI; as well as lead the delivery of one face-to-face training event between January and March 2026 within their network or community/ies. This event will be an opportunity for them to share the knowledge and skills they have developed during the programme.
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Additionally, they might further disseminate their use-case for DRI in A&H to build capacity in the community. For example, via training materials (e.g. Carpentries-style), digital research outputs (e.g. Programming Historian, research paper), blog posts, datasets, and/or software prototypes. Fellows are expected to make these outputs, including software and datasets, findable, accessible, interoperable, and reusable (FAIR).
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Fellows will be invited to showcase their programme of work at a network DISKAH event towards the end of the project.