A Shorthand social story about the building of Swansea University’s Bay Library
A Year of Digital Adventure: building our digital estate
For Wales, 2016 is the Year of Adventure. In this fledgling digital world of ours though, every year is full of digital adventures, where new technologies, services, apps, ideas and people come to the fore. The prologue to the digital
The Demise of Welsh History?
Huw Bowen’s suggestions for sustainable Welsh History: http://www.clickonwales.org/2014/12/the-strange-death-of-welsh-history/ There are many things that we could do, but here are two suggestions. First, there should be an annual festival of Welsh history. We seem to have festivals of virtually everything in
CODAH: Centre on Digital Arts and Humanities
Swansea University‘s Centre on Digital Arts and Humanities was founded in summer 2014. CODAH aims to deepen links and share knowledge between staff and students in Arts and Humanities and Computing (and other disciplines), in terms of research, teaching, public
A World of Welsh Copper: Cu@Swansea
Hafod and Morfa Copperworks from White Rock Image Credit If anyone has not become aware of the work of the Welsh Copper project then a trawl through some of the information available from it may be in order. Cu@Swansea has gathered
A Centenary History of Swansea City FC
This project is headed by Dr. Martin Johnes and is funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund in conjunction with Swansea University and the Swansea City Supporters’ Trust. The ‘Swans100’ project is exploring, conserving and celebrating the heritage of Swansea City
The Ancient Egyptian Demonology Project: Second Millennium BCE
This work has been the recipient of the Leverhulme Trust Research Project Grant, worth £158,220, and is headed by Dr. Kasia Szpakowska with the support of two PhD students, Zuzanna Bennett (Swansea University) and Felicitas Weber (Bonn University), at Swansea
What are the odds?
‘What are the odds? Capturing and exploring data created by online political gambling markets’: Headed up by Dr. Matthew Wall on an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project – worth £76,001 – along with his Co-Investigators (Dr Stephen
The early History of the internet in Wales
Dr Rhys Jones’ work is currently being written as a chapter for the Routledge Companion to Comparative Internet Studies (forthcoming in 2015). It focusses on the portrayal of the Internet in the English-language press in Wales, and in the Welsh-language
Twitter and the Welsh Language
Work from Dr. Rhys Jones recently published jointly with D. Cunliffe and Z.R. Honeycutt : ‘Twitter and the Welsh language’, in Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, Vol. 14 No. 7, pp. 653-671). The project used an online questionnaire in