{"id":47,"date":"2013-12-18T14:35:06","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T14:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=47"},"modified":"2017-11-16T17:31:14","modified_gmt":"2017-11-16T17:31:14","slug":"skills-development-training","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=47","title":{"rendered":"Skills Development &#038; Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A lack of awareness about GIS, and other geospatial tools, within the Humanities represents a major obstacle to the development of the Spatial Humanities.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>We set out to help resolve this in a number of ways: firstly, by holding a range of short-courses (from one-day seminars to week-long summer schools) that will teach the necessary skills to academics and PhD students from across the humanities; secondly, by hosting a major conference on GIS in the humanities; thirdly, by running three expert meetings to facilitate discussion between Humanities scholars and geospatial technologists.<\/p>\n<p>Although the project has now finished, this work continues &#8211; see our <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/dighum\">Digital Humanities Hub<\/a> for more details.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/cropped-bg1_021.jpg\" alt=\"cropped-bg1_021.jpg\" width=\"1600\" height=\"230\" \/>\u00a9 Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS &amp; Places<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A lack of awareness about GIS, and other geospatial tools, within the Humanities represents a major obstacle to the development of the Spatial Humanities. We set out to help resolve this in a number of ways: firstly, by holding a range of short-courses (from one-day seminars to week-long summer schools) that will teach the necessary &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/?page_id=47\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Skills Development &#038; Training<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-47","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fass\/projects\/spatialhum.wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}