Focussed around four main research areas, the Centre can call upon the skills off colleagues from all of the University’s faculties: Science and Engineering; Health and Life Sciences, and Humanities and Social Sciences. Our focus research areas are:
- Digital Humanities: incorporating history and sociology
- Digital Society: incorporating sociology, communication studies, law
- Digital Culture: incorporating languages and cultures, architecture, archaeology.
- Digital Economics: incorporating business, economics and marketing
The University of Liverpool is well placed to host such a research centre, with several colleagues focusing heavily on digital themes. These include Barry Godfrey and the £1.7m ‘Digital Panopticon’ project, Clair Taylor, who chairs the AHRC Digital Transformations Advisory Group, and Simeon Yates who leads the ESRC commissioned project ‘Ways of Being in a Digital Age’.
With researchers across the Humanities and Social Sciences faculty, and indeed across the University, the Centre will provide research leadership and infrastructural support for researchers from a range of disciplines who employ digital techniques and technologies in their work.