Digital Studio
The Digital Studio provides services, expertise, equipment and collaborative spaces for Faculty of Arts researchers and industry partners working in the digital humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS).
The Digital Studio leverages digital technologies to transform the ways in which teaching, research and scholarship are performed in the humanities, arts and social sciences (HASS). In association with University Library and Research Platforms, it offers a combination of research project development resources for staff and students, as well as the technical expertise and services in infrastructure and technology to underpin innovative research and collaboration.
What's happening in the Digital Studio
Upcoming events
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Melbourne Research Bazaar Conference 2019Event
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eTeaching Blended Learning Boot CampEvent
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Linguistic digital tools trainingEvent -
Wednesday 1pm - 2pmSeminar 1: Indigenous Australia and Digital FuturesEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmSeminar 2: Indigenous Australia and Digital FuturesEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmSeminar 3: Indigenous Australia and Digital FuturesEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmSeminar 4: Indigenous Australia and Digital FuturesEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmSeminar 5: Indigenous Australia and Digital FuturesEvent
Past Events
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Arts eTeaching/eLearning 2018 ShowcaseEvent
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Wednesday 3pm - 4:30pmRecoding relationality: Indigenous new media and digital storytellingEvent
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#TestFestVic - A Hackathon to Increase HIV Testing in VictoriaEvent
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Wednesday 9:30am - 5:30pm2018 AusStage SymposiumEvent
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2018 History Capstone showcaseEvent
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Audiovisual Objects of FameEvent
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Wednesday 5pm - 6pmDemystifying Museum Soft PowerEvent
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Wednesday 10am - 2pmDigital Heritage WorkshopEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital heritage seminar - Digital interactions in cultural materials conservationEvent
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Wednesday 4:30pm - 6:30pm2018 Digital Studio Internships ShowcaseEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital heritage seminar - Digital environments of Indigenous songEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital heritage seminar - Re-photography as a tool for citizen heritageEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital heritage seminar - Creating a short film digital archiveEvent
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Monday 1pm - 2pmArtificial arts: textual-creativity in the age of AIEvent
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Researcher @Library Week 2018 - Enabling next generation scholarshipEvent
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Friday 10am - 4pmWikipedia Edit-a-thonEvent
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Wednesday 4pm - 5pmVisualise Your Thesis awards eventEvent
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Wednesday 11am - 12pmBetter the DEVL you know! New tools, and services for HASS researchersEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital heritage seminar - New imaginaries of digital heritage spaceEvent
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Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:30pmeTeaching Digital Pedagogy: VideoscribeEvent
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Thursday 12:30pm - 1:30pmeTeaching Digital Pedagogy: QualtricsEvent
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Thursday 10am - 11amCreate your ePoster with PowerPoint (Visualise Your Thesis)Event
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital heritage seminar - Ghost signs: Digitising street artEvent
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Wednesday 10am - 11amDesign your ePoster: Make it visual (Visualise Your Thesis)Event
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Tuesday 10am - 12pmKeep it short, sharp and to the point: Working with text (Visualise Your Thesis)Event
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Suns of Mercury: Mediating MulticulturalismEvent
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Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:30pmeTeaching Digital Pedagogy: Learning Analytics and the LMSEvent
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eTeaching Blended Learning July Boot CampEvent
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Thursday 2pm - 5pmTranscription training with ElanEvent
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Thursday 12:30pm - 1:30pmeTeaching Digital Pedagogy: Lecture Capture 2018Event
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Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:30pmeTeaching Digital Pedagogy: Podcast PedagogyEvent
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Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:30pmeTeaching Digital Pedagogy: Evaluating Blended LearningEvent
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Wednesday 3pm - 4pmData Wrangling and Visualisation: Session 3 Deep Dive BEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital Humanities Marathon: Digital CityEvent
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Wednesday 3pm - 4pmData Wrangling and Visualisation: Session 2 Deep Dive AEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital Humanities Marathon: Digital Design ExperienceEvent
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Wednesday 3pm - 4pmData Wrangling and Visualisation: Session 1 IntroductionEvent
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Thursday 10am - 12pmUsing geographic information in a HASS virtual lab: Geocoding requirementsEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital Humanities Marathon: Digital IntimacyEvent
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Thursday 10am - 4:30pmInteractive Data Visualisation workshopEvent
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Wednesday 1:30pm - 4pmIntroduction to Textual Analysis with NLTKEvent
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Tuesday 10am - 4:30pmInteractive Data Visualisation workshopEvent
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Visiting Researchers: University of BirminghamEvent
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Wednesday 4:30pm - 5:30pmWandering Bodies: Ambient Literature, Entanglements, and Embodied CognitionEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital Humanities Marathon: Digital LinguisticsEvent
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Tuesday 10am - 11amInside the Unhuman Machine: Renderings of Human Subjectivity in CGI Media ArtworksEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital Humanities Marathon: Digital BodiesEvent
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Diversity Week: Visual PoetryEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital Humanities Marathon: Digital EmbodimentEvent
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ResBaz Melbourne 2018Event
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Blended Learning BootcampEvent
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Friday 9am - 4pmSCIP Data in the Field LabEvent
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Friday 9am - 4pmSCIP Data in the Field LabEvent
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Friday 9am - 4pmSCIP Data in the Field LabEvent
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Friday 9am - 4pmSCIP Data in the Field LabEvent
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Friday 9am - 4pmSCIP Data in the Field LabEvent
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eTeaching/eLearning ShowcaseEvent
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Friday 9am - 4pmSCIP Data in the Field LabEvent
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Friday 9am - 4pmSCIP Data in the Field LabEvent
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Thursday 2pm - 4pm"Claim your ORCID and unlock your researcher profiles": Information Session & WorkshopEvent
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Friday 9am - 4pmSCIP Data in the Field LabEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmVisualise your data for HASS: Information session and workshopEvent
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Wednesday 10am - 11am"Claim your ORCID and unlock your researcher profiles": Information Session & WorkshopEvent
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Friday 9am - 4pmSCIP Data in the Field LabEvent
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Thursday 2pm - 4pm"Claim your ORCID and unlock your researcher profiles": Information Session & WorkshopEvent
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Thursday 4pm - 5pmPodcast Launch: "My Marvellous Melbourne"Event
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Wednesday 12pm - 2pm"Claim your ORCID and unlock your researcher profiles": Information Session & WorkshopEvent
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Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:30pm“Liberating Technologies”: Digital Cultures of Protest in ChinaEvent
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Thursday 2pm - 4pm"Claim your ORCID and unlock your researcher profiles": Information Session & WorkshopEvent
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ASA-ITIC ConferenceEvent
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Thursday 2pm - 4pm"Claim your ORCID and unlock your researcher profiles": Information Session & WorkshopEvent
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Monday 3pm - 3pmOpen Data WorkshopEvent
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Wednesday 10am - 12pm"Claim your ORCID and unlock your researcher profiles": Information Session & WorkshopEvent
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Friday 1pm - 2pmThe Digital Beyond: Living, Dying and Impossible FuturesEvent
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Thursday 2pm - 4pm'Open Archives, Open Minds': Increasing the value of data through shared collectionsEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2pmDigital Conversations SeriesEvent
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Wednesday 1:30pm - 2:30pmFind & Connect: What even is it?Event
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmNurseries of living thought: growing museum knowledge in the digital ageEvent
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Tuesday 9:30am - 4:30pmInteractive and Online DataViz and Web Apps (with Javascript and Plotly)Event
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmCultural Collections: Opportunities to connect and intersectEvent
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Tuesday 9:30am - 4:30pmInteractive and Online DataViz and Web Apps (with Javascript and Plotly)Event
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Monday 10am - 3pmBeginners LaTeX for Articles and ReportsEvent
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmGermaine Greer Archive: letters and soundsEvent
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Tuesday 9am - 5pmIntroduction to R WorkshopEvent
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmThe Soviet Famines of the 1930s: Using digital representations of complex geographically referenced statistical data to inform narrative historyEvent
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Tuesday 10am - 1pmDigital Visions: Showcasing the Future of Cultural ResearchEvent
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Thursday 2pm - 4pmIntro to Omeka WorkshopEvent
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmCreative Convergence - Enhancing theatre for young people in the regionsEvent
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmZooniverse, the online citizen science platformEvent
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmReturn. Reconcile. Renew. The Repatriation of Old People.Event
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmResearch blogging and podcasting: the positives and pitfallsEvent
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Monday 9am - 5pmWeb Based Data Visualisations WorkshopEvent
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmPost-Hollywood: The Illusion of Location in Melbourne’s Post, Digital, and Visual Effects IndustryEvent
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmAn Argument-Based Approach to Digital Media Research and EvaluationEvent
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Wednesday 1pm - 2:30pmVisualise Your Data (HASS): Information session and workshopEvent
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Thursday 1pm - 2pmGuggenTube: Online Power of Global BrandsEvent
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Wednesday 12:30pm - 1:30pmZotero, Mendeley or EndNote? A brief overview for the Faculty of Arts.Event
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Tuesday 5:15pm - 7:30pmThe Digital Humanist and the Challenges to HumankindEvent
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Thursday 12pm - 1pmCultural Analytics: Understanding Today’s Digital WorldEvent
The Digital Studio is home to a growing number of exciting programs and research projects at the intersection of social sciences, humanities and the digital world. From online heritage to data mining, we provide space, advice and equipment for the cutting edge of digital research.
Current Programs
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Seminars
The Digital Studio hosts a diverse range of seminars, leading debates and discussion for digital scholars; whether critics, creatives or champions.
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Digital Studio Graduate Internship
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Visiting Fellows
The Digital Studio supports international knowledge exchange across the digital humanities, arts and social sciences, by hosting a range of fellows and visiting researchers.
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Digital Studio Live
Research Projects
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Deep Mapping: Creating a Dynamic Web Application Museum "Soft Power" Map
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Creative Convergence: Enhancing impact in regional theatre for young people
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Investigating Actual and Perceived Videotext Complexity in Second Language Video Comprehension
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Melbourne History Workshop
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Theatre and Dance Platform
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Visualising Special Music Collections
Assistant Dean, Digital Studio
Professor Rachel Fensham

Professor Rachel Fensham is a dance and theatre scholar with a history of research development in the digital humanities. She is Lead Chief Investigator (CI) on the ARC Linkage project, "Creative Convergence: Enhancing Impact in Regional Theatre for Young People" (2015-2018) and CI on the LIEF project for AusStage 6 which has developed an interoperable Theatre and Dance Platform at the University of Melbourne. She established the Digital Humanities Incubator (Melbourne, 2014-5) and in the UK, she launched the Digital Dance Archives and Move Research. Forthcoming publications include editing a section on "Making and Assembling" for the Routledge Handbook of Interdisciplinary Research and a long article on issues in dance research for a forthcoming Methuen Handbook. With Professor Peter M. Boenisch, she is co-editor of the Palgrave book series, "New World Choreographies" which has just launched its seventh title.
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Digital Studio staff
Digital Studio Project Officer
Tom Vasey
Email: tjvasey@unimelb.edu.auTom is a professional who has worked primarily in museums and libraries. He has a particular interest in how digital technologies are transforming the ways people discover and interact with cultural collections.
He began his career promoting cultural collections, initially at Museum Victoria and then at the Australian War Memorial. More recently Tom has been working with the archives and heritage collections at Newcastle Library, leading on digitisation projects, the development of an online collections discovery platform, and the management of digital born acquisitions.
Working in the Digital Studio, Tom is interested to further explore how digital technologies can remake encounters with cultural collections; expanding access and reforming discovery behaviours.
Digital Studio Admin Assistant (Casual)
Nat Cutter
Email: nat.cutter@unimelb.edu.auNat is a current PhD candidate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies, researching the experiences and impact of English expatriates in seventeenth-century North Africa. He is interested in cross-cultural engagement, social networks, evangelicalism, millennialism, diplomacy, and piracy.
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Digital Studio Research Fellows
Dr Natalia Grincheva
Dr Grincheva is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Research Unit of Public Cultures at The University of Melbourne. She pursues her career in the field of digital humanities focusing on development of new computational methods to study contemporary museums as important players in creative economy. Her first book, Branding the Global Guggenheim: Cultural Diplomacy in the Neoliberal Age, explores franchising museum practices as new avenues for contemporary institutional diplomacy and global museum PR. The second monograph forthcoming in 2018, Museum Diplomacy in the Digital Age, will contribute to the 'Museum Meanings' Routledge series. It will explore online museum spaces as sites of social activism and digital diplomacy through several case studies of the largest museums in North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific.
Dr Tyne Daile Sumner
Tyne is a researcher and teacher in English and Theatre Studies. Her research interests include 20th Century American literature, surveillance, confession, privacy, media, and Digital Humanities. Tyne is currently the Engagement Consultant for the new Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory (HASS DEVL) project. The aim of this national project is to bring together data, digital research tools, and services to enhance the skills and output of the HASS research community. Tyne is also a Senior Research Community Coordinator for Research Platform Services, where she supports the open-source web-publishing platform Omeka and runs trainings, events, and workshops in the Digital Humanities space. In this role, Tyne recently co-edited The Digital Research Skills Cookbook: An Introduction to the Research Bazaar Community. Tyne's key digital projects in 2018 include the creation of 'Surveilit,' an interactive online database exploring the relationship between surveillance and literature as well as DigiCom, an SSAF Grant-funded project that will explore the 'Tech Journey' of 5 PhD candidates who are using digital tools in their research. Get in touch with Tyne if you’d like to know more about Omeka trainings, the HASS DEVL or the Digital Research Skills Cookbook. She’s also on Twitter at @tynedaile.
Dr Daniel Russo-Batterham
From 2011 to 2013, Dr Daniel Russo-Batterham worked as a researcher at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours, France, while completing a Master of Music. In April 2018, he graduated from his PhD at the University of Melbourne where he examined seventeenth-century lute songs, with a particular focus on the relationship between text and music. Following graduation, Daniel participated in the 2018 Digital Studio internship program, where he used digital tools to examine Australian and French trench literature from the First World War. He has been using python and associated technologies to analyse music and text for the past five years and continues to be involved with a broad range of Digital Humanities projects in Australia and France. Daniel is currently collaborating with the Grainger Museum and the Rare Music Collection to create interactive online resources that offer unique insights into the musical materials held at the University of Melbourne as part of the project Visualising Special Music Collections
Mr Emad Alghamdi
Emad Alghamdi is a PhD student in the School of Languages and Linguistics. His research focuses on understanding videotext complexity for language learners. Before starting his PhD, Alghamdi completed an MA in English (TESOL) and an MS in Educational Technology in the USA. He founded KAUx, a MOOC platform, and led several educational technology projects in Saudi Arabia. His research interests are in Videotext Complexity, Multimodality, NLP, and Machin Learning.
Mr Andrew Fuhrmann
Andrew Fuhrmann is a Research Fellow for AusStage, LIEF17. His research interests include digital collections for the performing arts, poetics and contemporary dance and performance analysis.
Mr James Lesh
James is a PhD Candidate in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies. His thesis examines the place of urban conservation in the twentieth-century Australian city. He is interested in the relationship between cities, heritage, people and technology. He is the Digital Project Officer for the Melbourne History Workshop project.
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Informatics Support staff
Social and Cultural Informatics Platform (SCIP)
- Dr Mitchell Harrop partners and consults on many of the Digital Studio projects and is especially active in the Melbourne History Workshop
- Greg D'Arcy
- Geordie Zhang
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e-Teaching staff
Meredith Hinze (Manager, eLearning /eTeaching)
Email: m.hinze@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 3573
Mitch Buzza (eTeaching Training & Support Officer and LMS Faculty Representative)
Email: mitch.buzza@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9035 7549
Cameron Dunlop (eTeaching Production & Learning Officer)
Email: dunlopc@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9035 3974
Daniel Hayward (eTeaching equipment Loans officer)
Email: arts-equipment@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 1372
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Steering Committee members
Steering Committee members
Professor Rachel Fensham
Assistant Dean, Digital StudioMs Donna McRostie
Research and Collections representative (Acting Director, Research and Collections, University Library)Dr Stephen Giugni OAM
Research Platform Services representative (Director, Research Platform Services)Mr Ken Clarke
Engineering representative (Electrical and Electronic Engineering / Melbourne Networked Society Institute (MNSI))Ms Catrionadh Dobson
Business Developments representative (Senior Business Development Manager, Faculty of Arts)Ms Eliette Dupre Husser
Research representative (Research Manager, Faculty of Arts)Associate Professor Paul Gruba
Petascale Campus representative (Academic Convenor, Humanities and Social Sciences)Mr Tom Vasey
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Management User Group members
Ms Marija Grgic
Faculty Teaching representative (Acting Manager Strategy, Planning and Resources Unit)Ms Bernie Farrell
Facilities/OHS representative (Facilities, OHS and Records Manager, Strategy, Planning and Resources)Ms Ailie Smith
eScholarship Research Centre (ESRC) representative (Research Archivist)Mr Lyle Winton
Social and Cultural Informatics Platform (SCIP) representative (SCIP Platform Manager)Dr Tyne Daile Sumner
Digital Chamber researchers representativeMs Meredith Hinze
e-Teaching rep (Manager, eLearning/eTeaching, eTeaching Unit)Mr Tom Vasey
Digital Studio Project Officer

Facilities in the Digital Studio
The Digital Studio's spaces are available to be used by Faculty of Arts researchers, staff and partners.
If you haven’t used the Digital Studio spaces before please register first.
Planning a large or a public event? Please email digital-studio@unimelb.edu.au or call 9035 7936 to discuss your requirements.
Would you like help promoting your event? Please complete the Digital Studio public event listing form.
Rooms
Technology
Location and contact details
The Digital Studio is located on the 2nd and 3rd floor, West Wing of the Arts West (Building 148).
Access is from Level 2 of the West Wing of Arts West, during 9.00 am - 5.00 pm or via the lifts in the rear foyer the West Wing of Arts West.
Office Hours at the Information Hub (Room 3.10)
Tuesday to Friday 9am-5pm
Closed Monday
Contact
Email: digital-studio@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +613 9035 7936
Twitter: @digitalstudioUM