Monday 15 June, 10 – 11 am.
Jesse Pilcher
Human research ethics committees (HRECs) are under pressure. Growing submission volumes mean delays that affect researchers, participants, and the institution.
In this presentation, Jesse will discuss the progress the project team has made towards building a pilot pre-screening tool, and the challenges they have met along the way.
Elizabeth Stewart
Wednesday 29 April, 1-2 pm
How does crowd-sourced fact-checking differ from professional fact-checking? In this qualitative analysis of Community Notes and corresponding posts from X (formerly Twitter), we identify the kinds of claims that note-writers address, the problems that they identify with those claims, the justifications for the verdicts they reach, and the sources they draw on to support these claims.
Jacq Jones (they/them), La Trobe University. Thursday 12 February.
A position statement on Generative AI (GenAI) in Teaching and Research was developed at La Trobe University in response to the rapid adoption of these technologies by both students and tertiary institutions, and implemented into all courses from September 2025. In the talk, we present a summary of the position statement and examples of how it has been integrated into undergraduate classes, including discussion, pre-bunking activities, and changes to assessment design.
Danny Burns (University of Wyoming). Monday 16 February.
Recent surveys suggest that a large portion of the population is open to using generative artificial intelligence (AI) for health-related questions. While prior research has primarily focused on the factual accuracy of AI-generated responses, some studies indicate that both physicians and patients often prefer chatbot-generated text over physician-written responses.
David Sanderson (UNSW Sydney) While everyone agrees that community-centred disaster recovery is the ‘gold standard’, this is rarely achieved. Drawing on international practice, this seminar will discuss the barriers to community-centred disaster recovery and how it can be better achieved. Professor David Sanderson from UNSW Sydney has over 30 years’… Read More »May DHRN Seminar: Changing the narrative to achieve community-centred disaster recovery for real
Emily Cousins (University of Southern Denmark) Are your days shaped by the sounds of personalised playlists or podcasts? Perhaps you consume video reels or curate online pinboards? Or maybe you relax and recharge with some streaming or gaming? In this seminar, Emily will introduce the Digital Entertainment Machine (DiEM) research… Read More »February DHRN Seminar: The Digital Entertainment Machine research project: early findings and emerging ideas
Elsie Locke 313, 1-2 pm, Wednesday 27 November Erin Harrington In this talk I briefly outline some work-in-progress looking into digital humanities approaches to film analysis, drawing specifically from Kevin Ferguson’s work in ‘digital surrealism’. This approach, which he has developed over the last 10 years, explores the capacities of ImageJ,… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network November Meetup: What We Do in the Frame
Elsie Locke 313, 1-2 pm, Thursday 24 October Karin Stahel I will talk about the patterns and trends discovered in my recently completed analysis of a URL log dataset containing over 4 million unique Papers Past URLs. The analysis was completed as part of my PhD project, which is focused… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network October Meetup: Searching for John: An analysis of Papers Past URL logs
Seminar cancelled due to illness This month’s Digital Humanities Research Network meetup will be held in Elsie Locke 313, 1-2 pm, Thursday 24 October. Josh Wilson-Black will present a report from the recent two-day workshop “Quantitative Studies of Philosophy” in which a variety of exciting digital humanities projects in philosophy… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network: Workshop Report on Quantitative Studies of Philosophy
Join us for a casual discussion of the paper On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 Emily M. Bender, Timnit Gebru, Angelina McMillan-Major, and Shmargaret Shmitchell. 2021. On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? 🦜 In Proceedings of the… Read More »Digital Humanities Research Network: On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots
