Digital Studio
The Digital Studio is a collaborative research hub hosted by the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne. By building capacity and connections, the Digital Studio aims to humanize and leverage digital technologies to transform the ways in which teaching, research and scholarship shape the social, ethical and cultural dimensions of our world.
The Digital Studio collaborates on digital and data projects with researchers in many diverse fields, provides support and advice on cutting-edge digital methodologies for humanities and social science research, and hosts international speakers, researchers, and interns. The tiles below provide useful guidance to current projects hosted by or in partnership with the Digital Studio.
Current Projects
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Find and Connect
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Death Tech Project
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Who is Nature?
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CIRCUIT: Mapping Theatre in Australia
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Pacific And Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC)
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The Living Archive of Aboriginal Collections
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Melbourne History Workshop
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Execution Ballads
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Australian Women’s Register
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Australian Cultural Data Engine for Research, Industry and Government
Graduate Internship Projects
Each year the Digital Studio hosts a Graduate Internship program in which Arts researchers have the support of an intern to realise a small component of a digital project. In alignment with our strategy to develop emerging digital and data humanists it provides graduates with training and mentoring in digital methods and data science and allows them to contribute to innovations in project development. The tiles below provide insights into the 2020 projects.
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Geoparsing and the coverage of South Pacific states in Australian newspapers 2010 - 2020
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Acts of Resistance: Blackbirding in the South Pacific (1880-1885)
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Bittersweet: A Cultural History of the Smile
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Artists on Captain Cook’s Voyages to Batavia
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Textiles, Trade, and Meaning in the Courts of Northern Italy at the time of Isabella d’Este
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A Social Network Analysis of Late Twentieth-Century Heritage Conservation
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Who is Nature? VR visions from Indigenous Latin America and Australia
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Revisualising Ralph Reid's family history index
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Doctors Down Under Exhibtion
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Gender Sensitive International Development in Decentralised Governance Contexts: Women's Collective Action in Rural Indonesia
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Narrative Now: Creating a podcast series
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Kulu Language Institute website
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Otto Rank's Homosexuelle Neigungen [Homosexual Leanings] (critical edition and translation)
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Revitalising Indigenous-State Relations: Geospatial Map
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Plain Speech and Death Metaphors in Times of Crisis
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Founding an Australian Recipe Archive
Want to see more? Click below to take a look at internship projects from previous years.
All graduate internship projects
Want to get involved with the Digital Studio internship program? We welcome applications from research students to undertake the internship, and from academics and external organisations interested in hosting an internship and supervising an intern.
Past Projects
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Living with COVID.info
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Visualising Venues
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HASS Data Enhanced Virtual Laboratory (DEVL)
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Deep Mapping: Creating a Dynamic Web Application Museum "Soft Power" Map
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Investigating Actual and Perceived Videotext Complexity in Second Language Video Comprehension
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Visualising Special Music Collections
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Awaken digital experiences
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UoM Digital Incubator
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Theatre and Dance Platform
Digital Studio Director
Professor David Goodman
Professor David Goodman is Director of the Digital Studio, and a history professor.
Ed., and MA in History at the University of Melbourne, and a PhD in History at the University of Chicago. He taught at the University of Sydney 1986-89 in American and Australian histories, and has taught at the University of Melbourne since 1990, first in Australian studies and then in American history. His 1994 book Gold Seeking - Victoria and California in the 1850s was published by Allen and Unwin and Stanford University Press; his 2011 book Radio's Civic Ambition: American Broadcasting and Democracy in the 1930s was published by Oxford University Press, New York. His recent publications have been on the history of broadcasting in the United States; he is now completing a study of the local debate about American entry into World War 2.
Digital Studio Visiting Fellows
Visiting fellowships
The Digital Studio supports international knowledge exchange across the digital humanities, arts and social sciences, by hosting a range of fellows and visiting researchers.
Are you interested in being hosted by the Studio as a visiting fellow?
For more information please Contact us.
Past fellows
Dr Rafael Cabredo
The Digital Studio hosted Dr Rafael Cabredo from 19 October to 14 December 2019, in partnership with Graduate House as part of the United Board Fellowship program.
Biography
In a fast-paced information age, leaders need to be agile and adaptive to the changing educational landscape. All decisions and actions should be supported by verified data and be grounded in established values of the institution.
Dr Rafael Cabredo is the Dean of the College of Computer Studies at De La Salle University in the Philippines. Digital humanities is a burgeoning domain for researchers at De La Salle University, with new collaborations established between the College of Computer Studies and the College of Liberal Arts supporting the development of a number of local digital heritage projects – from documenting native dance and local languages, to using natural language processing to analyse historical texts and literature. Dr Cabredo’s research draws on classical music training to blend music theory with computer science techniques, such as discovering how different chord progressions evoke emotional responses in listeners.
Project outline
As an Honorary Fellow in the Digital Studio, Dr Cabredo explored how the digital humanities are delivered at the University of Melbourne, examining models for interdisciplinary practice and collaboration that can help inform research at his home university. He engaged with academics across faculties at Melbourne to share perspectives and approaches that support the continuing development of digital humanities tools and methods in the Philippines.
Dr Liz Stainforth
The Digital Studio hosted Dr Liz Stainforth from June to October 2018, as part of the Australian Endeavour Fellowship Scheme.
Biography
Being based in the Digital Studio was a brilliant experience. Taking part in the Studio’s Digital Heritage Seminar Series, provided invaluable networking opportunities and connected me with other Digital Humanities researchers.
Elizabeth Stainforth completed her doctoral studies in 2016 and has since worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (University of Edinburgh) and as a Lecturer at the University of Leeds. Her research explores digital heritage and memory cultures, and she is currently working on a collaborative book-length project about digital archiving practices (provisional title: All and Each: Dialogues in the Digital Archive). She has been an Associate Editor for parallax journal and published articles in journals including Museum and Society and Digital Humanities Quarterly.
Project outline
Elizabeth’s Endeavour Research Fellowship explored digital heritage culture in Australia, and the ways in which digital cultures inform wider social transformations. The study focused on Trove, a digital heritage aggregator hosted by the National Library of Australia, which provides online access to a range of Australian cultural heritage resources. Trove is one among a number of aggregators, including Europeana, Digital NZ and the Digital Public Library of America, that point towards the reimagining of library and museum spaces online. This development raises important questions about the negotiation of public space, collections preservation and cultural engagement in the digital environment. The project had two distinct but related aims: first, to investigate the development of Trove, alongside comparable initiatives, in order to promote new understandings of their infrastructures; and second, to look at the social context for digital heritage, with an emphasis on the collections of Australian public heritage institutions.
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
Workshops, training and technology
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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 Live
Can't attend a seminar? Watch live online! See upcoming live seminars or watch the videos of past live events.
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Zeta Book Scanner
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SCIP Digital Resources
Can’t attend a seminar? Watch live online! See upcoming live seminars or watch the videos of past live events.
Watch past live events
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Breaking the Social Media Prism: A Talk by Professor Chris Bail, Duke University
29 September, 2021.In this hour-long talk, Professor Bail discussed his latest book, Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make our Platforms Less Polarizing. Drawing on innovative online experiments and in-depth interviews with social media users from across the political spectrum, this book explains why stepping outside of our echo chambers can make us more polarized, not less.
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Digital Face-off: The future of news on global technology platforms
26 May 2021. This panel discussion looked at the implications of the recent mandatory News Media Bargaining Code.
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Digital Research in Action: Introduction to the Australian Data Archive
23 April 2021. In this workshop, Dr Steve McEachern offers an “Introduction to the Australian Data Archive”.
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What is a HASS Data Commons?
22 April 2021. In this seminar, visiting fellow Dr Steve McEachern presents an overview of two new Australian Research Data Commons projects.
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“Zooming” In and Out to Examine the “Virus”
6 Nov 2020. Professor Jodie McVernon and Professor Sean Cubitt
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“Sharing” and “Gaming” in the Post-pandemic World
23 October 2020. Dr Nicholas A. John and Professor Saugata Bhaduri
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“Geeking” and “Prototyping” in the New Normal
9 Oct 2020. Associate Professor Christina Dunbar-Hester and Professor Fred Turner
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“Events” in the Post-“Information” Age
25 September 2020. Associate Professor Julia Sonnevend and Dr Bernard Geoghegan
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“Internet” and “Hackers”: New Threats and Opportunities
11 Sept 2020.Professor Gabriella Coleman and Professor Thomas Streeter
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The Death of the “Analogue” and Re-birth of the “Surrogate”
28 August 2020. Associate Professor Jeffrey Drouin and Professor Jonathan Sterne
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Does the Future have a Past? New-Old and Old-New Virtual Realities
11 March 2020. In this seminar, Professor Peter Otto focuses on three immersive / interactive environments.
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The weaponisation of fake news in Australia in the digital age
Wednesday 9 October 2019Associate Professor Andrea Carson, La Trobe University
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Data and Democracies: Developing Data Capacity in the Victorian Government
Wednesday 25 September 2019Brad Petry, Head of Data Analytics, Victorian Centre for Data Insights
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Vote Compass: an exercise in public engagement
Wednesday 18 September 2019Aaron Martin, Co-director of The Policy Lab
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The Possibility of Citizen Intelligence
Wednesday 4 September 2019 Richard de Rozario, The SWARM Project, University of Melbourne
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Digital technology and organisational fluidity in British politics
Wednesday 21 August 2019 Dr Anthony Ridge-Newman, Liverpool Hope University
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The Indigenous Data Network: Restoring Community Control over an Intangible Asset
Wednesday 29 May 2019Dr James Rose, University of Melbourne
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IndigenousX as a Form of Digital Disruption
Wednesday 1 May 2019Luke Pearson, Founder and CEO of IndigenousX
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Digital Environments: Communication in Immersive Media
Wednesday 18 April 2019 Pauric Freeman Maynooth University, Ireland
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Immersive Culture: Sharing Traditional Knowledge with ‘Torres Strait Virtual Reality’
Wednesday 3 April 2019Rhett Loban, Macquarie University
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Digital Studio Seminar: Recoding relationality
Wednesday 5 December 2018 David Gaertner
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Digital Heritage Workshop
Wednesday 17 October 2018 Panel discussions asking: what is required for a career in digital heritage now and into the future?
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Digital environments of Indigenous song
Wednesday 3 October 2018 Dr Sally Treloyn Faculty of Fine Arts and Music
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Re-photography as a tool for citizen heritage
Wednesday 19 September 2018 Professor Hannah Lewi Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning
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Creating a short film digital archive
Wednesday 5 September 2018 Donna Hensler Victorian College of the Arts
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Digital Studio Seminar: Artificial arts
Wednesday 3 September 2018 Chris Rodley
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Contact the Digital Studio
Email: digital-studio@unimelb.edu.au
Phone: +61 3 9035 7936
Twitter: @digitalstudioUM
Office hours at the Information Hub (Room 3.10)
Currently closed due to lockdown restrictions
Applications and Forms
Want to host or participate in a Digital Studio Graduate Internship?
Digital Studio Graduate Internships
Want to work in the Digital Chamber?
Want to undertake a research fellowship at the Digital Studio?
Want to a book a space for digital humanities or social sciences research, teaching, or events?
Want help promoting your public event in digital humanities or social sciences?
Digital Studio Event Promotion
Location
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 North Wing of Arts West, during 9.00am - 5.00pm, or via the lifts/stairs in the rear foyer of the Arts West ground floor.