The Arts Digital Lab is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2026 Faculty of Arts Digital Research Seed Fund. The successful projects are:
- AI Pre-Screening of Research Ethics Applications: Developing, Evaluating, and Governing an LLM Tool for a University Ethics Committee
Project leads: Lindsey Te Ata o Tū MacDonald and Lui Holder-Pearson (HEC) - Quantifying the translation process of te Paipera Tapu: comparing the Greek and Māori Text of Te Kawenata Hou (The Māori New Testament)
Project leads: Forrest Panther and Joshua Wilson Black - Better Judgement Through Confidence Calibration
Project leads: Doug Campbell, Randy Grace (Psychology), Nicky Morton (Psychology), and Joshua Wilson Black - Desiderium – What Stood Here: Exploring immersive documentary practice through 3DGS and land art
Project leads: Ellie Adams and Hamuera Kahi - Lincoln, Clay and Jefferson: A Meta-Analysis of Proper Nouns (Names) in the Emergence of Lincolnian Statesmanship
Project lead: Peter Field - The Ukulele Underground forum: Musicking on the small web in the era of social media
Project lead: Francis Yapp
Congratulations to all of the project leads, who will receive research assistant time funded by the Faculty of Arts, along with advice and support from the Arts Digital Lab.
An additional project has been funded this year by QuakeCoRE CEISMIC:
- When a location is more than a location: Connecting physical locations and social meaning in the QuakeBox corpus
Project leads: Meredith Marra and Robert Fromont
The Arts Digital Seed Fund was launched in 2023 to support researchers across the Faculty of Arts to develop research projects and build capacity in digital topics and research methods. This year 13 applications were received in total, and all were of a very high standard. We look forward to working with this year’s recipients.