I can’t believe it’s been a whole year since the last Work in Progress day, but here we are again. Another super interesting day listening to talks that spanned the full breadth of the diverse discipline that is Classical Studies
Think Ontologically: An Introduction to the Use of Ontologies in Archaeology and Digital Humanities
Today I was up bright and early to attend this Archaeology ontology workshop, organised by staff and students from universities in the Midlands3Cities (M3C) Doctoral Training Partnership. As someone who studies how archaeologists work, rather than really being an archaeologist
Listening Experience Database Seminar 1: Integrating data from multiple sources and linking across datasets
Today I attended a workshop organised by people who work on the current iteration of the Listening Experience Database project (LED), and involved members of the project team as well as a few more of us from the Open University
Classical Studies Postgraduate Work in Progress Conference, 10 May 2017
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
Classical Association Conference, 26-29 April 2017
For the past few days I’ve attended the annual Classical Association (CA) conference, an event that brings together academics, researchers, students and teachers from all over the world – this year it was held at the rather lovely University of
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),
CHASE AHDA Databases Workshop
Today I attended the penultimate workshop in the CHASE Arts and Humanities in the Digital Age programme, which was on the topic of databases and led by Sharon Webb from the University of Sussex. Like the other workshops in the
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