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Criminals’ tattoo analysis among research grant winners
A researcher analysing criminals’ tattoos through data mining is among seven academics who have won grants courtesy of the British Academy and Jisc. Other winners of seven new grants for
academics conducting ground-breaking digital research in the humanities include projects to encode digitised missionary diaries in Africa, and to explore the history of learning difficulties through digital archives. The Academy’s new Digital Research in the Humanities grants fund innovative research through the application of new methods and tools to existing digital resources. These methods and tools can include visualisations of large datasets, 3D modelling of historical artefacts, data mining, text mining, Geographical Information Systems, and image and sound processing and analysis. The awards, up to £10,000 and tenable
for up to 12 months, support the direct costs of the research. By using and re- using existing resources, such as digital collections and datasets, research carried out from these awards will demonstrate capacity to generate new knowledge. The scheme includes Jisc-funded grant
support for research on the UK Medical Heritage Library’s collection of 19th century texts on the history of medicine,
which were digitised in partnership with the Wellcome Library. The full list of award-holders is:
• Eating Yourself Young: Diet, Recipe and Vitality before Nutrition Science – Dr James Stark, University of Leeds;
• Inside the History of Learning Difficulties – Owen Barden, Liverpool Hope University;
• Analysing Criminal Tattoos through Data Mining and Visualisation – Professor Robert Shoemaker, University of Sheffield;
• Curatorial Voice: Legacy Descriptions of Art Objects and their Contemporary Uses – Dr James Baker, University of Sussex;
• Digital Mission: Encoding and Analysing Digitised Missionary Diaries in Africa – Dr Sarah Walters, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine;
• The Effect of Literary Genre on Authorial Style: A Computational Stylistics Analysis of English Renaissance Plays, Poems, and Narrative Prose – Dr Brett Greatley- Hirsch, University of Leeds; and
• Full-Text Searching of Early Music Prints Online (F-TEMPO) – Professor Tim Crawford, Goldsmiths, University of London.
Professor Alan Bowman, chair of the
Academy’s panel that awarded the grants, said: ‘We are thrilled to present these new grants for digital research in the humanities, to what is a truly outstanding group of academics. The intersection of the humanities and computer science provides exciting opportunities to glean new insights from existing resources. It is vital that academia exploits the full potential of cutting-edge digital research methods. We wish the award-holders the best of luck with their research.’ Paola Marchionni, head of digital
resources for teaching, learning and research at Jisc, added: ‘We are very pleased to join forces with the British Academy to support innovative digital research. Over the last 15 years or so, digitisation has given rise to the creation of a wealth of resources which are now a fundamental part of modern scholarship, and we’re keen to maximise their use and impact through new and exciting approaches to digital scholarship.’
Climate crisis and false news top Altmetric 100
Research on mortality rates in Puerto Rico following Hurricane Maria have topped the Altmetric Top 100. The annual Altmetric Top 100 highlights research published in 2018 that has generated international online attention and discussion – from post- publication peer review sites and public policy documents to mainstream media, blogs, Wikipedia and social media platforms. The top 10 articles of 2018
were: • Mortality in Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria (New England Journal of Medicine, July);
• The spread of true and
false news online (Science, March);
• Alcohol use and burden for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2016: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2016 (The Lancet, September);
• Trajectories of the Earth system in the Anthropocene (PNAS, August);
• Association between physical exercise and mental health in 1.2 million individuals in the USA between 2011 and 2015: a cross-sectional study (The Lancet Psychiatry, September);
• Dietary carbohydrate intake 30 Research Information February/January 2019
and mortality: a prospective cohort study and meta- analysis (The Lancet Public Health, September);
• Evidence that the Great Pacific garbage patch is rapidly accumulating plastic (Scientific Reports, March);
• Complementary medicine, refusal of conventional cancer therapy, and survival among patients with curable cancers (JAMA Oncology, October);
• Global warming transforms coral reef assemblages (Nature, April); and
• The biomass distribution on Earth (PNAS, May). The Altmetric Top 100 typically features research from a
variety of disciplines, written by authors from all corners of the globe. This year’s Top 100 includes
articles that touch on many topics, with a particular focus on themes such as the dire environmental consequences of climate change, links between mental health and physical fitness, and the spread of misinformation online.
The list features papers published in 45 different journals. The University of Cambridge had the most affiliated papers (10 papers), while the journal Science featured more than any other (12 times).
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