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SHL Digital is delighted to announce the Digital Methods Accelerator (DMA) Summer Camp 2025. The DMA Summer Camp is aimed at Social Sciences and Humanities researchers at all levels wanting to explore and skill up on digital methods for their research but is open to anyone with an interest.

The pilot programme will consist of 2-hour in-person taster workshops over week commencing 30^th June. Topics will cover the whole research data lifecycle, with sessions planned on each stage. Planned taster workshops include things like: Open Refine, Omeka, Python for text analysis, Concept Analytics & Concept Cruncher, Topic Modelling, Data Dashboards, Gephi, Tableau, Voyant, Excel, Creative Commons, FAIR & CARE for data preservation and reuse, and more!

The DMA Summer Camp 2025 is open to all researchers at Sussex whether faculty or postgraduate researchers. It aims at equipping Sussex’ research community and make a positive contribution to the University’s digital and data futures strategic driver.

Places will be free but limited. Booking will be first come first served. Register your interest to participate in the DMA Summer Camp 2025 by emailing shl@sussex.ac.uk with 'DMA summer camp 2025' as the subject line, and be informed as soon as booking opens for the different sessions. Or keep an eye on our ‘what’s on’ webpage for updates on the final programme and registration links.

The DMA summer camp is being developed in collaboration with the Sussex Researcher School and the University Library Research & Open Scholarship team. It is envisaged that this taster camp will inform and expand into a full DMA programme offering for 2025-26 academic year.