Sussex Digital Humanities Lab

The Sussex Digital Humanities Lab is a University Centre of Excellence exploring interactions between computational technology, culture, society and environment.

The Sussex Digital Humanities Lab is an interdisciplinary Centre of Excellence that investigates the interactions between computational technology, culture, society and environment. The MAH Research Institute is its home, but the Centre extends across the University and includes Engineering and Informatics, Education and Social Work, Law, Politics, and Sociology, and the University Library, as well having close working links with sister Centres Sussex AI and the Sussex Sustainability Research Programme (SSRP).

The Sussex Digital Humanities Lab is an inclusive collective of scholars and researchers from all disciplines, artists, coders, activists, performers, information professionals, makers, designers, programmers, writers, composers, theorists, thinkers and tinkerers of all kinds and all stages of their careers. Collaboration is key, and doors are open to all staff members across the University, and from prospective external partners from industry, policy, non-profits, academia. If you have an idea about how we can work together, we want to hear from you.

The Centre was founded as the Sussex Humanities Lab (SHL) in 2014 with significant investment from the University. SHL gained Centre of Excellence status in 2023 and added 'Digital' to its name to emphasise the shared interest in the impacts and opportunities associated with digital transformations in culture and society. Read more about the name change in this blog post.

Find more about the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab.