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 is home to a growing number of exciting programs and research projects at the intersection of social sciences, humanities and the digital world.
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 Research in Action
This series of workshops will introduce Arts researchers to emerging digital research methods, advanced critical thinking and tools for data analysis.
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Digital Studio Graduate Internship
Are you a Faculty of Arts graduate student who is keen to expand your digital skills, or an academic who needs support with a digital humanities project?
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Digital Studio Fellowships
Mentoring of a community of digital humanists through the Digital Chamber and by hosting international fellows and visiting researchers.
Current Research Projects
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.
Project Officer, Digital Studio
Tom Vasey
Tom 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 Research Fellows
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.
Digital Studio colleagues and partners
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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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Arts eLearning/eTeaching
Co-located with the Digital Studio on level 3 of the West Wing of Arts West, the Arts eLearning/eTeaching unit supports teaching staff with integrating technology in their teaching, to develop innovative blended learning approaches and teaching materials, to stimulate active learning, and enhance student engagement.
Meredith Hinze (Manager, eLearning /eTeaching)
Email: m.hinze@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 3573
Mitch Buzza (eTeaching Training and Support Officer and LMS Faculty Representative)
Email: mitch.buzza@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9035 7549
Daniel Hayward (Equipment Loans and eTeaching Support Officer)
Email: arts-equipment@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 1372
Grace Quiason (eTeaching Media intern)
Email: g.quiason@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 8344 xxxxVacant (eTeaching Production and Learning Officer)
Email: xxx@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9035 3974Plus two casual video production staff.
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Digital Studio Steering Committee
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
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
Join us for the awards event where our judges will announce the Melbourne University 2019 Visualise Your Thesis winner, who will go on to compete in the inaugural International Visualise Your Thesis competition. Bring your supervisor, friends and family along for drinks and light refreshments, and vote in the Viewers’ Choice Award.