Dr Lesly Huxley and Christine Mullings

Gathering Evidence Current ICT Use and Future Needs for Arts & Humanities Research

AHRC ICT Strategy Projects meeting, 14/12/05

2 Project overview

August 2005 December 2005 April

2006

July 2006

• Find comms. channels

• Review other work

• Develop and pilot

online survey

• Launch survey (Dec05)

• Reminders

• Data analysis

• Case studies/groups

• Preliminary findings

• Further

analysis

• Final report

July 06

• Lesly Huxley• Christine Mullings• Di Jones• Tamar Hodos

3 Project Steering Group

• Dr Angela Piccini, PARIP Project, Department of Drama, University of Bristol• Dr Jonathan Gibson, English Department, Royal Holloway University of London• Dr John Irving, Head of Music Department, University of Bristol• Dr Shelley Hales, Classics and Ancient History, University of Bristol• Jayne Everard, Service Manager, Artifact, Manchester Metropolitan University• Professor David Cowling, Professor of French, University of Durham• Sheila Anderson, Director, Arts and Humanities Data Service, King’s College London

4 What does the survey cover?

• Current research and how it is carried out

• The importance of e- and non-e resources

• Creating eResources

• Dissemination of research results

• Formal and informal support available

• Effect and impact of ICT use in research

• Difficulties and gaps in provision

• Future intentions/needs around ICT use

http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/ahrc/survey

6 Distribution and follow-up

• Dec: JISCmail and other e-lists via HUMBUL,

Artifact, AHDS and the AHRC and members of our

steering group [difficulty of reaching individual

researchers by email or post]

• Dec: Links on AHRC, AHDS, HUMBUL and Artifact

• Jan: Approaches to heads of department to remind

and encourage [No e- or other lists available]

• Feb/Mar: Identification and follow-up of

6 case studies via interview

7 Potential issues, possible solutions

1. Overlap with other ICT programme surveys

[Meeting with other major survey projects and

Methods Network - no discernible overlaps, agree

to share data, only ours going out to individuals]

2. Survey fatigue and confusion for users

[Try to make our survey distinguishable and work

with Methods Network re: dissemination]

3. Difficulty of reaching non-users and cases

[Other project focussing on non-users]