Matthew Sillence

Over the last week, I have been reading Daniel Levitin’s very popular The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload, which has been sitting on my bookshelf for far longer than it should. I won’t summarise the whole book here, nor do I wish to write a review... [Read More]

This week sees the final stage of our Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age (AHDA) programme. As part of the two-day event in central London, we will be examining web authoring, and its implications for digital humanities practitioners. As well as understanding the languages of the web, the standards, issues around... [Read More]

Today I’ve been working on a new module which we hope to pilot in the 2018-19 academic year on postgraduate research supervision. Many colleagues know that I already contribute to our regular postgraduate research supervisor training sessions, but we felt that more space was needed for pedagogy. To date, most... [Read More]

Researchers in the arts and humanities have spent a lot of time recording cultural phenomena, as well as writing about them. Historical research in particular has often been portrayed as a painstaking process of reading, transcribing, editing and publishing. Indeed, many of the records series beloved of today’s researchers are... [Read More]