Digital Humanities Institute travel to the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken for the second MSCA doctoral network training camp

Find out more about the second CASCADE training camp, where groups of researchers exchange ideas and perspectives about interdisciplinary methods that could be used to analyse how language expresses meaning in various, changing contexts over time.

Team photo of the second cascade training camp

The second CASCADE Training and Research Camp took place from 12-13 March at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken, where the full group of 10 ESRs and their PhD supervisors, and a roster of guest researchers came together to learn from, and with each other, at the USAAR Campus Innovation Center. Michael Pidd, Susan Fitzmaurice, Maria Jimena Flores, and Penelope Gia Bao Huu Nguyen attended this as DHI/UoS representatives. Two packed days of activities included ESR group work and brainstorming sessions; poster presentations and even a guided tour of 500 years of Saarbrücken history at the SAAR Historical Museum.

The programme included several guest researcher presentations by experts in the field of Historical Sociolinguistics, Computational Lexicography and Natural Language Processing, as well as an insightful presentation by a former Marie Curie Early Stage Researcher on the highs and lows of the ESR journey. All in all, it was a very well spent two days in Saarbrücken and the team returned to their respective institutions with heads filled with new information, new ideas and further plans for future collaborations.

These camps are a great opportunity for PGRs to collaborate and learn from each other, as well as benefit from the knowledge and experience of a much larger network of supervisors.

 Mike Pidd

Director of the Digital Humanities Institute

Many thanks to Haim Dubossarsky; Stefano de Pascale and Francesco Periti from the Change is Key! project; Tanja Säily from University of Helsinki, and Marc Alexander from the University of Glasgow for sharing their knowledge and expertise with the CASCADE team. We are looking forward to our next training camp which will be hosted by the University of Helsinki in June!

CASCADE is a collaboration between University College Cork, University of Sheffield, University of Helsinki, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, and Universität des Saarlandes. Funded by Horizon Europe under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Doctoral Networks and the UKRO.

Find out about the first camp which was hosted by the Digital Humanities Institute.

First training camp