In the spring of 2015, I was appointed acting professor of digital material research. This also opened the door to my participation in the institutional development of digital humanities, inter alia by planning teaching in digital humanities and by continuing to build shared networks and promoting the profile of the research field, which we worked on particularly with Kaius Sinnemäki at the research collegium.

Currently, perhaps the most visible instrument in this activity has been the planning of a digital humanities themed minor module. Together with an Aalto University scholar and one of the pioneers of the data processing side of digital humanities, Eetu Mäkelä, we will provide a three-part module with the addition of many related courses in 2015-2016. At the end of the academic year, the module will finish with a group project. The first version of this Humanities-Hackathon (which was Timo Honkela’s idea) was piloted with a large group of excited, capable students in the spring of 2015. Hopefully these studies in digital humanities will develop into something permanent, which will then act as a base for broadening the teaching to other faculties if needed as well as for further strengthening cooperation with Aalto University.