Today was the day of the Open University’s Classical Studies Postgraduate Work in Progress conference. I’d been looking forward to it since reading the excellent blog posts from Sophie Raudnitz and Liz Webb about the event in previous years, albeit
Researching Born-Digital Archives Workshop
This post originally appeared on the Open University Classical Studies blog at http://www.open.ac.uk/blogs/classicalstudies/?p=1148. On Thursday 16 March 2017 I attended Researching Born-Digital Archives at the British Library, a collaborative workshop with three AHRC consortia – CHASE (who provide my PhD funding),
SOAS Academic Careers Day
One of the best things about being funded through a consortium like CHASE is the opportunity to attend events run by other partner institutions. Today, I went along to an event at SOAS to hear all about what an academic
CHASE AHDA Digital Images Workshop
Today I attended the second one-day workshop in the CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age programme, which looked at Digital Images (and video), and was delivered by Matthew Sillence from the University of East Anglia. Of all the
CHASE AHDA Winter School – Day 3 (13 January)
Threshold Concepts The third day started with a talk from Matthew about ‘Threshold Concepts’, those ‘eureka’ moments in learning where you unlock new knowledge that completely transforms how you think about the world. This idea was new to me, but
CHASE AHDA Winter School – Day 2 (12 January)
Digital Images The second day began with talks from Matthew Sillence (UEA) and Stefan Rüger (Open University) on the subject of Digital Images. Matthew started by looking in more detail at the metadata that is captured for digital images, and
CHASE AHDA Winter School – Day 1 (11 January)
For the past three days I’ve been attending a Winter School, which is the first component of the CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age programme. I’d been a bit unsure about how useful the programme would be to