The NULab for Digital Humanities and Computational Social Science is happy to announce the recipients of the Spring 2025 Seedling, Travel, and Community Collaboration Grants. Seedling grants support pilot research to catalyze a longer-term research project. Travel grants support the presentation of NULab-related research at conferences or NULab-relevant professional development opportunities such as workshops. Community collaboration grants support digital and computational projects that center community engagement, citizen science, or community co-creation. These grants have funded research assistantships, data sets needed for research, access to tools and software, and travel costs for meetings that initiate, or further, a research project.
The recipients of the Spring 2025 NULab Seedling, Travel, and Community Collaboration Grants are as follows:
- Julia Flanders, English and Northeastern Library, “Margins & Methods: Zine-Making as Critical DH Practice” (Community Collaboration)
- Ayah Aboelela, History, “Mapping the Hajj in the Age of Print and Steam: A Global and Digital History” (Seedling)
- Benjamin Grey, History, “AI-Powered Transcriptions of 19th c. Civil Servant Diaries” (Seedling)
- Cassie McMillan, Sociology & Anthropology; Criminology & Criminal Justice, “A bunch of degenerates:” An exploration of online discourse about problematic sports betting through social network and text analysis” (Seedling)
- Danielle Duran, Sociology, “Framing Taste: Digital Food Policy Archive and Food Stories Project” (Seedling)
- Ioannis Votsis, Philosophy at NU London, “AI and Information Literacy: Data Visualization” (Seedling)
- Tayte Adderley, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, “A Systems Perspective of Clear Lake’s Hitch Population” (Seedling)
- Joshua Rosen, School of Public Policy and Urban Affairs, “A Tale of Two Sciences: Exploring Cross-Disciplinary Divides in Computational Social Science”; “Unlocking the Periphery: Investigating Ridesharing’s Role in Shaping Emerging Urban Areas”; “The temporal dimension of experienced segregation in cities,” IC2S2 (Travel)
- Marianna Griffini, Politics and International Relations at NU London, “Strongwomen? A Comparative Analysis of Gender Discourse in the Electoral Campaigns of Marine Le Pen and Giorgia Meloni,” ECPR (European Consortium for Political Research) General Conference (Travel)
- Yunus Emre Tapab, Political Science, “Best Practices in the Use of LLMs for Social Scientists” (Event co-sponsorship)
If you are interested in the NULab grants program, see the grant application process page and look for the fall call for proposals in October 2025. See our full set of supported projects.
