Slides for panel discussion at AHRC IRC UK-Ireland Digital Humanities Research Network 1st Workshop held on 15 December 2020

1. David De Roure
@dder

2. • Started as TEI Summer School, till 2010
• Expanded over 9 years to 270+ participants
• Introductory strand + 8 others
• New strand each year
• 10th anniversary in 2020
• Four generations of DHOxSS Director here today!

3. Would benefit from
using digital methodsHumanities scholars
who aren’t going
digital any time soon
Using digital
methods
Digital
Humanists
Innovation in
digital methods
DH Training
& Support

4. Open – Oxford – Cambridge DTP
Produced on OpenLearn Platform
DH training programme beyond the mini MOOC

5. Software Sustainability Institute
www.software.ac.uk
The Software
Sustainability
Institute

6. www.software.ac.uk
Teams Activities
Software
Helping the community to develop software
that meets the needs of reliable,
reproducible, and reusable research
Policy
Collecting evidence on and promoting the
place of software in research & sharing with
stakeholders
Outreach
Exploiting our platform to enable
engagement, delivery & uptake
Training
Delivering essential software skills to
researchers, partnering with institutions,
doctoral schools and the community
Software
75+ project consultancies
200+ evaluations
4 surgeries
Policy
1500+ RSEs engaged
Involved in UKRI long-term strategy
On 29 national and international
committees
Outreach
170+ external contributors
20k unique visitors/month
7.5k followers (Twitter)
Training
300+ Carpentry workshops
7000+ learners, 250+ instructors
80+ guides
The
“7/10”
www.software.ac.uk
Community
Developing Communities of Practice by
supporting the right people to understand
and address topical issues
Community
140+ Fellows
35+ workshops organised

7. Software Sustainability Institute
www.software.ac.uk
Training focus
• Computational and data skills for researchers across
domains
• Identifying needs & finding solutions
• Coordinating and administering training workshops
• Growing a pool of certified instructors and fostering
community of practice
• Supporting UK projects in developing and delivering
training activities
Software development in research is common, training
for skills in software development is not (yet).
https://software.ac.uk/programmes-events/carpentries/what-are-carpentries

8. Software Sustainability Institute
www.software.ac.uk
Software, Data & Library Carpentry
• Long-term partnership with The Carpentries
• Administration and coordination of UK workshops
• Supporting adoption of the pedagogical training
model in other training programmes
• International impact & influence
• 360+ workshops and 280+ trained
instructors since 2012
https://software.ac.uk/programmes-and-events/carpentry-programmes

9. https://www.ukri.org/our-work/creating-world-class-research-and-innovation-infrastructure/

10. https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/uk-research-and-development-roadmap

12. IT Services
RSEs in
humanities
embedded
service
joint
OeRC
DH
Sustaining
Digital
Scholarship
Centre for
Digital
Scholarship

13. Principal Investigators
Postdocs
Postgraduates
Undergraduates
Software developers
RSEs
Digital specialists
Technology specialists
Method specialists
Infrastructure providers
Digital researchers
Training & education
RSE Training
for humanists
Humanities
training for RSEs
Humanities Digital
CS graduates

14. DHOxSS
https://digital.humanities.ox.ac.uk/digital-humanities-oxford-summer-school
SSI
https://software.ac.uk/
UKRI RII
https://www.ukri.org/our-work/creating-world-class-research-and-innovation-infrastructure/
Turing
https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/humanities-and-data-science
https://www.turing.ac.uk/research/interest-groups/ai-arts