HELDIG - Helsinki Centre for Digital Humanities

Learn about HELDIG Professors and activities

HELDIG Professors

Eight new (established in 2017) professor chairs in six faculties of the university are directly supported by HELDIG:

  1. Digital humanities and global interaction. Prof. Eetu Mäkelä
  2. Digital Social Science. Prof. Krista Lagus
  3. Digital Innovations and Consumer Society. Prof. Minna Ruckenstein
  4. Algorithmic Data Science for SSH Applications. Prof. Michael Mathioudakis
  5. Legal Research on Digitalization. Prof. Riikka Koulu
  6. Russian Big Data Methodologies. Prof. Daria Gritsenko
  7. Religion and the Digital World. Prof. Katja Valaskivi
  8. Big Data Learning Analytics. Prof. Petri Ihantola

 

Activities

When planning HELDIG, over sixty professors and senior researchers were identified working on Digital Humanities related topics in seven faculties of the university. Strengthening these activities through collaboration and coordination is a major goal of HELDIG. Some examples of DH related activities at UH are listed below, but there are many more: