Thursday 1 April 2021 | 12:00-13:00 Organiser: Professor Aileen Douglas
A publishing workshop with Christabel Scaife (Senior Commissioning Editor Literary Studies, Liverpool University Press) organised by the School of English and the Careers Advisory Service in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Christabel Scaife, Senior Commissioning Editor for Literary Studies at Liverpool University Press, shines a light on the sometimes vexed process of turning a PhD thesis into a monograph. She explores the important differences between a thesis and a book, as well as offering tips on how to put together an effective book proposal and what to expect from the peer review process.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities early career researchers
Postgraduate Professional Development Workshop 2 - Publishing Workshop: Journals
Thursday 8 April | 12:00-13:00
Organiser: Professor Aileen Douglas
A publishing workshop led by Dr Paul Delaney (School of English) and Dr Patrick Walsh (School of Histories and Humanities) organised by the School of English and the Careers Advisory Service in partnership with the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Scholarly journals, enabling publication of peer-reviewed articles and reviews of new monographs and edited collections, are cornerstones of arts and humanities research, and important to academics at all stages of their publishing careers. In this workshop Patrick Walsh, former editor of the interdisciplinary journal Eighteenth-Century Ireland: Iris an dá chultúr, and Paul Delaney, reviews editor of the Irish University Review, dedicated to literary criticism of Irish literature in the English language, share their insights and experiences with early career scholars.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities early career researchers
Postgraduate Professional Development Workshop 3 - Careers Beyond Academia
Thursday 15th April | 16:00-18:00
Organiser: Professor Aileen Douglas and Orlaith Tunney
An opportunity to meet with PhD graduates who successfully made the transition to work beyond academia. Informally meet with graduates and hear the inside scoop on how to make the transition to work in areas such as H.E. administration, events, media, market research, and diplomacy. Organised by Trinity Careers Service, the School of English and Trinity Long Room Hub.
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Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities early career researchers.
Policy Workshop 3: Communication for Policy Engagement
Tuesday 20 April 2021 | 13:00-14:00
Workshop 3 of 3
Organiser: Dr Caoimhe Whelan, Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub
A workshop organized by the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the Arts Humanities Policy Initiative
Chair: Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub
Instructors: Sarah Bowman, Director of Strategic Engagement and Impact Assessment, Office of the Dean of Research TCD; Dr Kate Smyth, Trinity Research and Innovation, Consultancy Development AHSS, TCD; Dr Doireann Wallace, Project Manager, SHAPE-ID, Trinity Long Room Hub
This workshop will help hone AH researcher’s communication skills. After participation in this workshop, we expect that participants will be able to better able to identify how to communicate their message to policy makers and other non-academic stakeholders.
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Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities academic and research staff and early career researchers
Promoting your Research Profile
5 October 2020 | 13:00-14:00
Instructor: Niamh Brennan, Trinity Library's Research Informatics Programme Manager; Dr Giovanna Lima, Research Impact Officer, Trinity Long Room Hub
In this workshop, we will introduce key concepts of research impact and provide an overview of best practice for creating and maintaining an effective online presence for Arts and Humanities researchers. We will then cover how to create your profile on the main tools for profile building, with step-by-step overview of the process. This beginner session is recommended for researchers unfamiliar with tools such as RSS, ORCID, Google Scholar and Academia.edu. The training will be delivered jointly by the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Library Informatics Unit, for early career researchers at the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities research and academic staff and early career researchers
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Digital Scholarship & Skills Workshop Series Michaelmas Term / Digital Humanities Semester 1 Workshop 1: ‘TEI, Oxygen and Digital Scholarly Editing’
7 October 2020 |13:00-16:00
Organiser and Instructor: Dr Michelle Doran, Research Fellow (PROVIDEDH) & Project Officer, Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities
This workshop will introduce participants to the theories, practices and methods for encoding digital text. It provides an introduction to markup languages, XML, the infrastructure of the Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) Guidelines, and the encoding of common textual phenomena. Participants will have an opportunity to apply the basic elements of TEI-XML to encode a literary text using the oXygen XML Editor.
Audience: Trinity faculty, staff, students and anyone who may be interested to learn and ask questions about new research methodologies utilising digital research tools.
The workshop series may be taken as an ECTS module to be applied to the taught course requirements in a structured PhD. Details are available here.
Unboxing the Humanities: Without Discipline there's no Open Scholarship
8 October 2020 | 12:30-1:45
Organisers: Trinity Open Scholarship Taskforce and The Trinity Long Room Hub; Shane Collins, CONNECT Centre, Trinity College Dublin; and Dr Giovanna Lima, Research Impact Officer, Trinity Long Room Hub
Open Scholarship maximises the impact of research and its potential to do good in society but disagreements surface in how rigid the scholarly community believes mandates in Open Access, Licensing, Research Data and other related fields should be. Many cite the ‘unintended consequences’ of not respecting the need for discipline specific approaches in the formation and dissemination of scholarship. Seeking to reconcile these concerns is crucial if we as a community are to deliver an ‘inclusive’ knowledge society and avoid moving the dial of inequality from access to production.
On October 8th, we will be joined by distinguished Prof. Margot Finn, the President of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) and University College London’s Chair in Modern British History, for a webinar in conjunction with Trinity’s Long Room Hub, where we discuss Open Scholarship in the humanities and the issues this presents for researchers. Prof. Finn authored the RHS guidance paper on “Plan S and the History Journal Landscape” published in October 2019, and she will facilitate a presentation, followed by ample time for Q&A.
We invite you to submit questions ahead of time to OpenScholarship@tcd.ie and hope you can join us as we continue to unbox what Open Scholarship means for our community.
Audience: Trinity staff, postgraduate students.
Digital Scholarship & Skills Workshop Series Michaelmas Term / Digital Humanities Semester 1 Workshop 2: ‘Web technologies: HTML, CSS and PHP’
14 October 2020 | 13:00-16:00
Organiser: Dr Michelle Doran, Research Fellow (PROVIDEDH) & Project Officer, Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities
This workshop introduces the history of the web, including the emergence of hypertext and web technologies such as HTML and XML. Participants will work with HTML and CSS and will learn introductory approaches to web site development.
Audience: TCD faculty, staff, students and anyone who may be interested to learn and ask questions about new research methodologies utilising digital research tools.
The workshop series may be taken as an ECTS module to be applied to the taught course requirements in a structured PhD. Details are available here.
This year’s workshops will take place online. Links will be shared with individuals registered to attend.
Best Practice in Interdisciplinary Research: Learning from the Neurohumanities
20 October 2020 | 13:00-14:15 CEST (12:00-13:15 GMT+1)
Organiser: Dr Doireann Wallace, SHAPE-ID Project Manager, Trinity Long Room Hub
What can the experiences of researchers working in the emerging area of the neurohumanities teach us about the challenges and potential of interdisciplinary research between the Arts and Humanities and STEM disciplines? Why engage in such research and how are researchers navigating the significant distances between their respective disciplines?
This webinar will invite researchers working in the neurohumanities to discuss best practices in interdisciplinary research from the perspective of their own experiences working at the interface of the arts and humanities and neurosciences. The case studies will showcase the potential for interdisciplinary research with meaningful roles for arts and humanities researchers and inspire researchers to learn about and engage with interdisciplinarity.
Panellists
- Professor Sonja Smets | University of Amsterdam
- Professor Thomas J Carew | New York University
- Amelia McConville | Trinity College Dublin
Professor Jane Ohlmeyer, Principal Investigator of the SHAPE-ID project, Chair of the Irish Research Council, will chair the discussion.
For full details see here.
Audience: Research Funders and Policy Makers, Research Performing Organisations, Researchers
For more details on how the SHAPE-ID project addresses the challenge of improving interdisciplinary cooperation between the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) and STEM (Sciences, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) and other disciplines see: https://www.shapeid.eu/
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Digital Scholarship & Skills Workshop Series Michaelmas Term / Digital Humanities Semester 1 Workshop 3: ‘Data Visualisation via Geographic Information Systems’
21 October 2020 | 13:00-16:00
Organiser: Dr Michelle Doran, Research Fellow (PROVIDEDH) & Project Officer, Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities
Instructor: Dr Vicky Garnett, Researcher, PARTHENOS
This workshop will demonstrate and give hands-on experience of some of the basic functions in QGIS that the novice 'spatial humanist' might need to visualise their data, which will enable participants to explore the software further with more confidence.
Audience: TCD faculty, staff, students and anyone who may be interested to learn and ask questions about new research methodologies utilising digital research tools.
The workshop series may be taken as an ECTS module to be applied to the taught course requirements in a structured PhD. Details are available here.
Digital Scholarship & Skills Workshop Series Michaelmas Term / Digital Humanities Semester 1 Workshop 4: ‘Scoping DH projects, Managing Data and Documenting Work’
28 October 2020 | 13:00-16:00
Organiser: Dr Michelle Doran, Research Fellow (PROVIDEDH) & Project Officer, Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities
Instructor: Professor Jennifer Edmond, Director of Strategic Projects and Associate Professor of Digital Humanities
This workshop will introduce key success factors for planning, delivering and closing a digital project. Participants will learn about best practices in such key topics as: building collaborations, scoping and costing technical requirements, assuring access and rights to data, standards and common tools, funding schemes, team management and end of project considerations.
Audience: TCD faculty, staff, students and anyone who may be interested to learn and ask questions about new research methodologies utilising digital research tools.
The workshop series may be taken as an ECTS module to be applied to the taught course requirements in a structured PhD. Details are available here.
Advancing Research Impact and Assessment
5 November 2020 | 12:00-13:00
Organiser: Sarah Bowman, Director of Strategic Engagement & Impact Assessment
Instructors: Sarah Bowman, Director of Strategic Engagement & Impact Assessment; Professor Linda Doyle, Vice President for Research/Dean of Research TCD; Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub; Professor Louise Gallagher, Director of Research, School of Medicine at Trinity College Dublin
In this webinar, the Research Impact Unit which will present its activities to a College-wide audience interested in learning more about what we’re hoping to accomplish together. The Dean of Research will present her ambitions around research impact from the Research Charter & Strategy, while the Director of the Research Impact Unit (RIU) will present around the development of the Research Impact Officer positions (RIO), the RIU Work Plan and Engagement Strategy. The Trinity Long Room Director Eve Patten and the Director of Research for the School of Medicine Louise Gallagher will present why their units took up the opportunity to appoint RIOs, their ambitions in this area, and learnings to date.
Audience: Trinity academic staff and students
Funding Interdisciplinary Research with the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
10 November 2020 | 13:00-14:15 CET (12.00-13.15 GMT)
Organiser: Dr Doireann Wallace, SHAPE-ID Project Manager, Trinity Long Room Hub
The SHAPE-ID Policy Brief recommends that funders and policy makers invite greater Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences (AHSS) participation in designing and evaluating inter- and transdisciplinary research funding calls and adapt funding instruments to acknowledge some of the unique features of inter- and transdisciplinarity, such as the time it takes to build mutually respectful collaborations. But what are the challenges for funding agencies on the ground, and how have they innovated in developing funding programmes? The webinar will invite representatives of funding agencies from different European countries to discuss their challenges and efforts to develop funding programmes with AHSS involvement in inter- and transdisciplinary research.
Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin), Principal Investigator of the SHAPE-ID project and Chair of the Irish Research Council, will chair the discussion.
Panellists
- Professor Milena Žic Fuchs | University of Zagreb
- Tobias Bade Strøm | The Research Council of Norway
- Peter Brown | Irish Research Council
Audience: Research Funders and Policy Makers, Research Performing Organisations, Researchers
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Maximising your research profile
17 November 2020 | 12:00-13:00
Organiser: Dr Giovanna Lima, Research Impact Officer, Trinity Long Room Hub
Instructor: Niamh Brennan, Trinity Library's Research Informatics Programme Manager
In this workshop, we will introduce key concepts of research impact and provide an overview of best practice for creating and maintaining an effective online presence for Arts and Humanities researchers. We will then cover how to create your profile on the main tools for profile building, with step-by-step overview of the process. This beginner session is recommended for researchers unfamiliar with tools such as RSS, ORCID, Google Scholar and Academia.edu. The training will be delivered jointly by the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Library's Research Informatics Unit, for early career researchers at the Trinity Long Room Hub.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities academic and research staff and early career researchers
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Professionalising Inter- and Trandisciplinary Expertise
10 December 13:00-14:15 CET (12:00-13:15 GMT)
Organiser: Dr Doireann Wallace, SHAPE-ID Project Manager, Trinity Long Room Hub
SHAPE-ID has found that a clear and well-defined process is needed for inter- and transdisciplinary research projects in order to manage such innovative interactions and ensure long-lasting results. This webinar will invite experts in inter- and transdisciplinary integration to consider how expertise can be fostered in academic and professional environments. What is integration expertise and why is it needed in order to develop strong collaborative research projects with diverse participants? What is the profile of the inter- or transdisciplinary scientist or researcher? What tools and methods are available to build this profile?
Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin), Principal Investigator of the SHAPE-ID project and Chair of the Irish Research Council, will chair the discussion.
Panellists
- Dr Sabine Hoffman | Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
- Dr Nikki Brand | Technische Universiteit Delft
- Dr Petra Biberhofer | Participatory Science Academy, University of Zurich and ETH Zurich
Audience: Research Funders and Policy Makers, Research Performing Organisations, Researchers
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Showcasing your Research Profile
Wednesday 03 February 2021 | 13:00-14:00
Organiser: Dr Giovanna Lima, Research Impact Officer Trinity Long Room Hub
Instructor: Niamh Brennan, Trinity's Research Informatics Programme Manager
In this workshop, we will illustrate how Arts and Humanities researchers can highlight the impact of their professional achievements and research when applying for funding proposals, awards, and career progression. Participants will be presented to tools such as Altmetric.com, World Cat and Open Syllabi and how they can provide relevant data to showcase research excellence. This advanced session is recommended for researchers familiar with tools such as RSS, ORCID, Google Scholar and Academia.edu. The training will be delivered jointly by the Trinity Long Room Hub and the Library's Research Informatics Unit, exclusively for Arts and Humanities researchers at Trinity College Dublin.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities academic and research staff and early career researchers
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SHAPE-ID webinar series - Infrastructures for Interdisciplinary Engagement: Lessons from the Digital Humanities
Thursday 18 February 2021 | 13:00-14:00 CET (12:00-13:15 GMT)
Chaired by Dr Maciej Maryl, Director of the Digital Humanities Research Centre at the Institute of Literary Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, and a partner on the SHAPE-ID project.
Panellists: Dr Darja Fišer (University of Ljubljana and DARIAH-SI); Eliza Papaki (Trinity College Dublin and DARIAH-EU); Arnauld Gingold (OPERAS)
Format: All webinars take place at 13:00 CET (12.00 GMT) and run for 75 minutes. Webinars will be hosted on Zoom and will take the form of short presentations from panellists followed by an interactive Q and A session with the Zoom audience. The webinars will also be live-streamed on the SHAPE-ID Facebook page.
The aim of this webinar is to learn from digital research infrastructures about how they foster inter- and transdisciplinary research between humanities scholars on the one hand and computer scientists and developers on the other. We believe that lessons learned from the Digital Humanities (DH) could be applied to other instances of inter- and transdisciplinary cooperation. We would like to learn which measures work best in encouraging such cooperation on the basis of successful case studies. Furthermore, the webinar will explore user involvement strategies aimed at disseminating already existing tools, services and methodologies among DH-curious but still largely "non-digital" scholars.
Full details here.
Audience: researchers, policymakers, funders, research developers, and other societal stakeholders.
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Digital Humanities: Digital Tools and Technologies Workshop Series, Hilary Term - Defining (the) Digital Humanities
Wednesday 24 February 2021 | 13:00-14:00
Workshop 1 of 4
Organiser: Dr Michelle Doran, Research Fellow (PROVIDEDH) and Project Officer, Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities
Instructor: Dr Michelle Doran
Defining (the) Digital Humanities Exploratory rather than prescriptive in style, this workshop will ask participants to define Digital Humanities as it relates to their own scholarly identities, disciplines, sources and research methodologies. Participants will also be introduced to the landscape of Digital Humanities at Trinity College Dublin.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities academic and research staff, early career researchers and anyone who may be interested to learn and ask questions about new research methodologies utilising digital research tools.
Policy Workshop 1: Understanding the Arts and Humanities Policy Arena
Tuesday 23 Feburary, 2021 | 13:00-14:00
Workshop 1 of 3
Organiser: Dr Caoimhe Whelan, Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub
A workshop organized by the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the Arts Humanities Policy Initiative
Chair: Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub
Instructors: Mary Doyle, Public Policy Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub and retired senior civil servant; Professor Lorraine Leeson, Centre for Deaf Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
This first workshop in a three-workshop series will introduce the AH policy arena and will map the local and national policy landscape. After participation in this workshop, we expect that participants will be able to understand the importance of the AH researcher in policy making; better understand local and national policy landscapes; and identify engagement and knowledge mobilization opportunities for AH researchers within the policy arena.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities academic and research staff and early career researchers.
MARCH 2021
Digital Humanities: Digital Tools and Technologies Workshop Series
Hilary Term - Interdisciplinary Critical Feminist Digital Scholarship
Wednesday 3 March 2021 | 13:00-14:00
Workshop 2 of 4
Organiser: Dr Michelle Doran, Research Fellow (PROVIDEDH) and Project Officer, Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities
Instructor: Dr. Patricia Treusch
This workshop will explore how Digital Humanities and selected perspectives of Feminist Science and Technology Studies (FSTS) can be brought into a productive relationship. The goal is to bring together concepts of critical DH, informed by FSTS, to develop an account of DH as positioned between technology and culture, and therefore an ideal field of reflecting on how recent computer cultures are impacting knowledge production and practices of knowing.
For details see
dh.tcd.ie/dh/workshops/.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities academic and research staff, early career researchers and anyone who may be interested to learn and ask questions about new research methodologies utilising digital research tools.
Digital Humanities: Digital Tools and Technologies Workshop Series
Hilary Term - Network Data Analysis and
Visualisation via Gephi
Wednesday 10 March 2021 | 13:00-14:00
Workshop 3 of 4
Organiser: Dr Michelle Doran, Research Fellow (PROVIDEDH) and Project Officer, Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities
Instructor: Maedhbh Nic Lochlainn
This workshop is designed to present the general theoretical framework behind network analysis and its applications within the Humanities. The workshop will provide a practical introduction to carrying out network analysis – we will work with datasets to a) use Gephi to create network graphs, and b) spatially map our network graphs using Gephi and Google Maps.
For details see
dh.tcd.ie/dh/workshops/.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities academic and research staff and early career researchers
SHAPE-ID webinar series - Transdisciplinary Dialogues: Research Partnerships for Impact
Thursday 18 March | 13:00 – 14:15 CET (12:00-13:15 GMT)
Chaired by Professor Jane Ohlmeyer (Trinity College Dublin), Principal Investigator of the SHAPE-ID project and Chair of the Irish Research Council.
Panellists: Prof dr Caroline Nevejan | Chief Science Officer of the City of Amsterdam; Dr Giulia Sonetti | Politecnico di Torino; Fionn Kidney | Human Insights Lab, Accenture
Partnerships with actors in civil society, industry, the cultural sector and citizens, are increasingly important to develop societally relevant research. In recent years our understanding of these relationships has evolved from a more limited idea of ‘end users’ to that of ‘co-creators’ of research, necessitating the development of transdisciplinary dialogues. The webinar will invite experts engaged in transdisciplinary work bridging research and society to discuss the importance, benefits and challenges of building transdisciplinary partnerships and co-creation, with examples from their own sectors and projects.
Audience: researchers, policymakers, funders, research developers, and other societal stakeholders.
For details see here.
Policy Workshop 2: Embedding the Arts and Humanities in the policy arena
Tuesday 23 March, 2021 | 13:00-14:00
Workshop 2 of 3
Organiser: Dr Caoimhe Whelan, Research Fellow, Trinity Long Room Hub
A workshop organized by the Trinity Long Room Hub as part of the Arts Humanities Policy Initiative
Chair: Professor Eve Patten, Director of the Trinity Long Room Hub
Instructors: Professor Chris Morash, School of English, Trinity College Dublin; Dr Ruth Barton, Film Studies, Trinity College Dublin.
This workshop will focus on different skillsets needed for researchers to interact with government. With an even more practical focus, it will highlight how to identify opportunities for appropriate engagement, when one should engage with policymakers, how to change public discourse and influence policymakers, and understand the differences between the academia and policy cultures. Using key AH examples, it will highlight the skill set needed and identify underlying structures to promote embedding the AH research in the policy arena. Through this workshop, participants will be exposed to AH examples of the research-policy interface and understand the ethos that moves the policy arena.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities academic and research staff and early career researchers.
Digital Tools and Technologies Workshop Series Hilary Term - Introduction to Python for Humanities Research
Wednesday 24 March 2021 | 13:00-14:00
Workshop 4 of 4
Organiser: Dr Michelle Doran, Research Fellow (PROVIDEDH) and Project Officer, Trinity Centre of Digital Humanities
Instructor: Professor Salvador Ros Munoz
This workshop introduces the theories, practices, and methods for quantitative analysis in the Humanities using Python. Participants will work through a use case to build familiarity with the language's syntax and best practices. Participants will also get insight into the use of Jupyter notebooks for research. This workshop is designed for participants who have no prior programming experience.
For details see dh.tcd.ie/dh/workshops/.
Audience: Trinity’s Arts and Humanities academic and research staff, early career researchers and anyone who may be interested to learn and ask questions about new research methodologies utilising digital research tools.
