Transforming the Gap: Inclusive Digital Arts and Humanities Research Skills (DAReS) CoLAB

DARES(数字艺术和人文研究技能)CoLab旨在开发和试点一种包容性模式，为艺术和人文学科提供高级数字研究技能，使处于职业生涯各个阶段的研究人员处于边缘地位。DARES CoLab将多样性和包容性作为创新和高质量研究的重要先决条件，并将这些优先事项应用于数字研究技能的发展和培训。DARES CoLab旨在将已知的差距转化为包容性实践的机会，从而实现改变游戏规则的解决方案、艺术实践以及在艺术和人文领域具有影响力的高质量研究。高级数字研究技能，包括数据辩论、分析、数据可视化和计算数据分析，预计将是未来五年需求最大的数字技能集群。然而，数字艺术和人文研究的状况极不平衡，其标志是数字卓越中心(如UAL的创意计算研究所和King的数字人文实验室)，以及关于可以使用什么工具和技术以及如何使用的普遍不确定性。STEM、社会科学和基于跨学科的计算方法方法通常需要研究人员投入大量资金，不仅是在技能获取方面，而且还需要将这些方法转化为艺术和人文学科。计算机科学和技术部门有一个众所周知的“多样性鸿沟”，妇女、那些披露残疾的人、黑人、亚洲人和少数族裔群体继续不成比例地被边缘化和代表不足(MacDonald 2020；BCS 2021)。通过关注艺术和人文学科的包容性实践，DARES CoLab提供了一个可实现的计划，用于解决这些差距并将其转化为良好实践，以获得更好的研究成果。为了实现这些目标和项目目标，有3个阶段：-阶段1：建立包容性模型(O1，O4)-阶段2：数字技能暑期学校试点(O2，03，O4)-阶段3：使用共同创造方法的数字技能黑客松试点(03，O4，O5)，第一阶段将边缘化和代表性不足的艺术和人文研究人员与项目合作伙伴(英国维基媒体和CRAC/VITAE)聚集在一起，为高级数字研究技能的提供和能力建设开发一个包容性模式。该项目团队将举办3次研讨会，有来自职业生涯每个阶段的30名参与者参加，考察融入在艺术和人文、研究和数字研究技能中意味着什么。第二阶段将把第一阶段开发的包容性模式应用于数字研究技能课程，并在暑期学校技能课程中进行试点：-数据辩论-分析-数据可视化-社交网络分析-计算数据分析暑期学校结束后，参与者、合作伙伴和团队将评估暑期学校技能提供和经验，并在网络活动结束阶段2相互提供反馈。在第三阶段，第二阶段的反馈和观察将用于重申暑期学校数字技能课程，用于第二次试点黑克松。由英国维基媒体牵头的黑客马拉松将把参与者、合作伙伴和项目团队聚集在一起，共同创建一个技能维基，并参与数字技能的最后一次迭代。DARES CoLab为发展包容性和可扩展的数字技能试点提供了一项可实现的行动计划，可为区域或国家培训中心提供信息。DARES CoLab还提供了一项行动计划，以加强对创意和艺术部门的知识和理解，并应对我们这个时代的文化挑战。

The DAReS (Digital Arts and Humanities Research Skills) CoLab aims to develop and pilot an inclusive model for advanced digital research skills provision for arts and humanities with marginalised researchers at every stage of their career. The DAReS CoLab prioritises diversity and inclusion as important preconditions for innovation and high quality research, and applies these priorities to digital research skills development and training. The DAReS CoLab aims to transform known gaps into opportunities for inclusive practice enabling game-changer solutions, artistic practice, and impactful, high-quality research in arts and humanitiesAdvanced digital research skills, including data wrangling, analytics, data visualisation and computational data analysis, are predicted to be the digital skills cluster most in demand over the next five years. Yet, the state of digital arts and humanities research is wildly uneven, marked by centres of digital excellence (e.g.UAL's Creative Computing Institute and King's Digital Humanities Lab) and also widespread uncertainty around what tools and techniques can be used and how.STEM, social science and interdisciplinary based approaches to computational methods often require heavy investment from researchers, not only in skill acquisition but also to translate these methods to arts and humanities. Computer sciences and the technology sector have a well known "diversity gap" where women, those who have disclosed a disability, Black, Asian, and minority ethnic groups continue to be disproportionately marginalised and underrepresented (MacDonald 2020;BCS 2021). By focusing on inclusive practice for the arts and humanities, the DAReS CoLab provides an achievable plan for addressing and transforming these gaps into good practice for better research outcomes.To achieve these aims and the project's objectives, there are 3 phases:-Phase 1:Building an inclusive model(O1,O4)-Phase 2:Digital skills summer school pilot(O2,O3,O4)-Phase 3:Digital skills hackathon pilot(O3,O4,O5)Using co-creation methodologies, Phase 1 brings together marginalized and underrepresented arts and humanities researchers with project partners (Wikimedia UK and CRAC/Vitae) to develop an inclusive model for advanced digital research skills provision and competency building. The project team will run 3 workshops with 30participants from every career stage, examining what inclusion means in arts and humanities, in research, and for digital research skills. Recommendations from this phase will be used to develop the model of inclusion informing the digital skills curriculum and summer school pilot.Phase 2 applies the inclusive model developed in phase 1 to the digital research skills curriculum and pilots this in the summer school skills provision for:-Data wrangling-Analytics-Data visualisation-Social network analysis-Computational data analysisFollowing the summer school, participants, partners and the team will evaluate the summer school skills provision and experience and provide feedback to each other in a networking event closing phase 2.In phase 3,feedback and observations from phase 2 will be applied to reiterate the summer school digital skills curriculum for a Hackathon, the second pilot. Led by Wikimedia UK, the Hackathon will bring participants, partners and the project team to co-create a skills wiki and engage in the last iteration of digital skills. The DAReS CoLab provides an achievable plan of action for developing an inclusive and scalable digital skills pilot which can inform a regional or national training centre. The DAReS CoLab also provides an action plan for strengthening knowledge and understanding of the creative and arts sectors and speaks to cultural challenges of our time.