Digital Humanities MA

Lancaster University

Train in cutting-edge methods with leading experts from Lancaster University’s internationally renowned Digital Humanities Centre. We combine specialisms in the spatial humanities, corpus linguistics and natural language processing (NLP) with expertise across the broader humanities.

What is ‘data’ in the humanities? How are digital sources created? What are the advantages and limitations of material in digital form? As well as changing the way we live and work, the digital world is also transforming the way we study the humanities. Our MA in Digital Humanities will prepare you to work in this new world of data.

Digital methods are changing the ways in which humanities scholarship works across the UK and internationally, including how heritage organisations share and preserve collections, and how we publish research. AI is turbo-charging this in ways that are still developing. You will explore these shifts and others to analyse implications, positive and negative, for our disciplines, for libraries and archives, and for society.

Our academic team at Lancaster have tackled big research questions such as:

• How can AI be used to better understand the Holocaust?
• How can we read a million maps?
• How can Shakespeare's corpus be visualised?
• What can billions of words extracted from nineteenth-century newspapers and legal testimonies tell us about life in Victorian Britain?
• What changes can we identify at a landscape scale during the formation of the Aztec Empire?

Our MA in Digital Humanities is taught by our internationally recognised tutors who have a wide range of subject knowledge from across the Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences and beyond. You can draw on their expertise and develop your degree in a way that suits your interests and career prospects.