The Arts Digital Lab is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2025 Faculty of Arts Digital Research Seed Fund. The successful projects are:
- Community Notes on Social Media: Democratic Epistemology in Practice
Project Lead: Elizabeth Stewart - Tracking the changing forms of racism directed at Muslims and Islam in online immigration discourse in Aotearoa
Project Leads: Donald Matheson and Zahra Emamzadeh - Germany and the Pacific Islands: Media Framing and Discursive Construction
Project Leads: Serena Kelly and Mathew Doidge - Uncovering hidden voices: digitising New Zealand’s nineteenth-century shipboard diaries to explore language, identity and experience
Project Leads: Sarah van Eyndhoven and Lydon Fraser - Māori/Iwi Infrastructure Mapping
Project Leads: Garrick Cooper and Hamuera Kahi
Congratulations to all of the participants, who will receive 200 hours of research assistant time, funded by the Faculty of Arts, along with advice and support from the Arts Digital Lab.
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 twelve applications were received in total, and all were of a very high standard.