The Edinburgh Futures Institute will host the Digital Humanities & Research Software Engineering Summer School 2024 between Tuesday 2 and Friday 5 July. Applications are now open and will close on Friday 17 May.

The summer school is aimed at researchers in the digital humanities who intend to professionalise their software engineering skills. It will combine talks and practical activities and explore how the intersection of digital humanities and software engineering is shaped across different UK institutions. Participants will have an opportunity to gain an invaluable insight into the roles and practices of Research Software Engineering in Digital Humanities research. Each day one of the partner institutions will take the lead in showcasing the practicalities of working in the field. Mornings will start with a series of presentations on matters ranging from careers in RSE to project life cycles. The afternoon sessions will consist of hands-on activities spanning topics such as effective data visualisation to sustainable coding and peer programming.

The event is co-organised by the Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society (Lucia Michielin), Cambridge Digital Humanities (Mary Chester-Kadwell, Jonathan Blaney), King’s Digital Lab (Neil Jakeman), and The Alan Turing Institute (Federico Nanni) and it is supported by the Data/Culture Project (AHRC Grant Ref: AH/Y00745X/1) and the Society of Research Software Engineering.

The event has been hosted in the past by The Alan Turing Institute and Cambridge Digital Humanities.