Mon 30 Jun
|King’s College, Strand Campus
DH & RSE Summer School 2025
Time & Location
30 Jun 2025, 19:00 – 04 Jul 2025, 15:00
King’s College, Strand Campus, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK
About the event
DISKAH will introduce its Fellows to a week-long training programme during the DH & RSE Summer School 2025 exploring the intersection of digital humanities and research software engineering. Training will focus on advancing digital skills to use state-of-the-art national Digital Research Infrastructure (DRI) and High Performance Computing (HPC). The Summer School is co-organised by King’s College London, University of Cambridge and University of Edinburgh, in collaboration with Digital Skills in Arts and Humanities (DISKAH) network.
For any questions, please get in touch with Dr Myrsini Samaroudi m.samaroudi3@brighton.ac.uk.
Programme
The full programme of the summer school can be found here. Parallel sessions have been scheduled for the DISKAH Fellows’ cohort, as described below. Please note that these are run alongside the main programme of the summer school.
Monday 30 June 2025
Time Session
11:00 – 12:30 Introduction to Python for the Arts and Humanities Research
Dr Jessica Witte, University of Edinburgh
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Workshop: Working with Text Data in the Arts and Humanities Research
Dr Jessica Witte, University of Edinburgh
15:00-15:30 Coffee break
15:30-17:00 Workshop: Python – Experiment with your own data
Dr Jessica Witte, University of Edinburgh
Thursday 3 July 2025
Time Session
11:00 – 12:30 Version Control with Git and GitHub
Dr Samantha Finnigan, RSE, Durham University
Zeynep Aki, RSE, Durham University
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 15:00 Version Control with Git and GitHub
Dr Samantha Finnigan, RSE, Durham University
Zeynep Aki, RSE, Durham University
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 17:00 Version Control with Git and GitHub
Dr Samantha Finnigan, RSE, Durham University
Zeynep Aki, RSE, Durham University
Friday 4 July 2025
Time Session
9:00 – 11:00 Building your Digital Research Skills with Programming Historian
Anisa Hawes, Publishing Manager Programming Historian
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee break
11:30 – 13:00 DISKAH Fellows Session
DISKAH Team
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 DISKAH Fellows Session
DISKAH Team
Venue
The summer school will take place at King’s College London. Information on how to get to the Strand Campus, as well as the venue of the training (Macadam 3.1 Innovative Learning Space) can be found here.
Travel and accommodation
Travel and accommodation for the Fellows is arranged by the DISKAH administrator. Please email g.lebreuilly@brighton.ac.uk if you have any questions.
Meals
Catering will be provided throughout the summer school. An evening reception is provided on Wednesday 2 July, with free drinks and nibbles.
Software, Hardware and Data
All Fellows will need to bring their own laptops to the training. You should have user rights to install software on the laptop. It will also be good to bring a sample of your dataset to have available during the workshop.
Photographic approval & Social media
During the summer school, we will be taking photos to document the training activity and promote it through our social media. If you do not want your photo to be taken, please let us know upon arrival at the summer school venue. If you want to promote the workshop through your social media, we will be using the hashtag #DISKAH through our social media:
BlueSky @cultinformatics.bsky.social
X/Twitter @CultInformatics
LinkedIn @cultinformatics