Inclusive Data Research Skills for Arts and Humanities/About the Project

The DAReS project

The DAReS project is a 12 month project (April 2023-March 2024) that came to be in response to systemic inequalities in many academic related sectors (e.g. tech and computing, higher education, and research) and how these are amplified at the intersection of arts and humanities research, data and digital skills, and research, especially for under-represented groups. The key question for us was not ‘why are under-represented groups not engaging data skills?’ but ‘why are there so few approaches prioritising inclusion’ and ‘what does an inclusive approach look like?”. Thus, rather than developing a skills training programme for under-served groups, the DAReS project aimed to work with such groups to co-design an inclusive data skills curriculum. Taking an ethical co-creation approach, the DAReS project aims to develop an arts and humanities focused and inclusive data and digital skills curriculum which can inform a scalable regional or national pilot.

This Hackathon comes in the last phase part of the DAReS project, which is funded by the AHRC as part of the IDAH Digital Skills Network, lead by London College of Communication, University of the Arts London, with the Creative Computing Institute, King’s College London, Leeds University, Roehampton University, and partners, CRAC/Vitae and Wikimedia UK. The DAReS project is officially titled ‘Transforming the Gap: Inclusive Digital Arts and Humanities Research Skills’ (DAReS), AHRC AH/X007510/1.

https://www.arts.ac.uk/colleges/london-college-of-communication/research-at-lcc/dares