Support Overview

• Expertise
• Ideas
• Advice
• Solutions
• Support

In areas including

• DH skills and training
• Project proposals, collaboration and funding
• Research data management, preservation and sharing
• Collections-based research and digital artefacts
• Programming and computing resources

For example, the DH Hub can help with:

• Developing understanding of Digital Humanities as a discipline and how digital methodologies can be applied to research projects
• Identifying and meeting training needs, in digital methodologies, use of specific software/applications, programming and research software engineering, and research data management
• Accessing peer-to-peer support and networking via the DH Community of Practice
• Obtaining a mentor to help you develop your digital knowledge and skills
• Identifying potential collaborators/partners to deliver digital elements of a research project
• Specifying and costing digital requirements and solutions for a grant application/research project
• Preparing a data management plan for a grant application/research project
• Planning for and costing data storage and archiving for a grant application/research project
• Planning for and costing preservation of and access to digital artefacts and collections for a grant application/research project
• Designing and delivering a technical solution for a project
• Accessing and using digital research infrastructure and services
• Preserving and sharing research data using the University’s Research Data Archive or other data repositories
• Preserving and providing long-term access to digital artefacts and collections using the University’s Special Collections services

You can read more about the individual members of our team and how we can support you here.

• Email
• Meetings
• This website (as links, guides and case studies)
• Training and information sessions
• Community of Practice Teams channel

Further information on how to contact us may be found here.
Our events calendar is available here.

• Research students at the University of Reading
• Researchers at the University of Reading
• Researchers planning to move to the University of Reading

• Developing ideas
• Developing proposals/grant applications
• Undertaking research
• Preserving research outcomes

The earlier the contact with the Hub, the better we can support you.

The Hub’s motivation is to support researchers in

• Research innovation
• Effective planning
• Best practice