We are an interdisciplinary network involving several universities and researchers co-designing a training programme to support the Arts and Humanities (A&H) community in leveraging UK Digital Research Infrastructures (DRI), such as High-Performance Computing, to further unlock research potential.

Funded by UKRI, we aim to support academics and practitioners, coming from Higher Education Institutions (HEIs), and Independent Research Organisations (IROs), in pioneering new use cases for DRI and driving innovation by expanding skills in computationally intensive data-driven methods. 

Through its activities and fellowship programme, DISKAH works towards building an A&H community, including academics, practitioners and their organisations, which can harness data by accessing advanced computing resources and deploying DRI-enhanced methods in their exemplary research. The programme aims to engage a wide community of A&H researchers, working across disciplines and disseminating training through their networks. 

Within DISKAH, we are committed to delivering a wide range of activities to support the community, including: 

• Co-designing the DISKAH Fellowship programme to support researchers in leveraging DRI-enabled methods for research. 
• Providing training through a range of opportunities during the fellowship year, including workshops, a summer school, and online events. 
• Administering tailored training within DRI centres and HPC frameworks to gain key insights to large-scale data for research. 
• Promoting open research practices and robust data management practices including enabling access to open data. 
• Sharing training and support with broader A&H research communities, particularly those reached by the DISKAH fellows. 
• Organising outreach and dissemination activities to empower researchers to efficiently use DRI. 

DISKAH is dedicated to fostering equality, diversity and inclusion within its activities, by identifying and overcoming A&H research related barriers.