Digital Futures Lab - Launch Event

Interested in Digital or Computational Humanities? Have a drive to explore how computing and digital technologies offer new ways of understanding textual phenomena?  

Join us in celebrating the launch of the Digital Futures Lab, an experimental, cross-disciplinary space for creative-critical work on the digital transformation of society.

• Saturday 7 February 2026
• National Brownfield Institute, Springfield Campus 
• Free

At the launch, you can:

• Meet leading thinkers who use digital and computational methods to rethink approaches to language, literature and culture
• Experience a groundbreaking virtual reality project and explore how digital creativity can help improve lives and build communities
• Help co-create impactful research for a digital wellbeing project
• Explore how your own writing style resembles other authors
• Hear from leading thinkers about what a digital future will hold
• Pitch your own projects ideas for a MPhil or PhD in your own Digital or Computational Humanities topic during incubator discussions
• Drinks reception for mingling with digital research and pedagogy leaders

We are currently accepting applications for students interested in doing an MPhil or PhD with us. We also invite expressions from external partners, including cultural institutions and business, to undertake collaborative research. For more information about the Digital Humanities research at Wolverhampton, please go to: Digital Humanities Research Group

See the programme and reserve your place here

For more information, contact Bas Groes at s.groes@wlv.ac.uk.