Driven by
Purpose

To promote computer-based approaches to research in all disciplines in the humanities; to encourage and support research activities that will stimulate and drive computer-based studies in the humanities;

To generate research ideas that will promote cutting-edge studies and produce transnational outcomes for the benefit of society;

To develop and explore new theories and methods that will open up new avenues of conducting research in the humanities;

To adopt new technological tools to analyse and present results of research conducted from within the disciplines in the humanities;

To engage in critical social and digital media research projects;

To publish research outcomes in digital humanities for the benefit of the wider community outside the academia;

To promote highly collaborative and interdisciplinary programmes for research incomes and socially beneficial innovative ideas;

To provide an enabling research climate and mentorship for upcoming scholars;

To prepare and equip future generations of scholars and researchers in the humanities to adopt scientific approaches to their research through seminars and workshops that will complement classroom-based learning;

To organise workshops/conferences/seminars for training and capacity building in computer-driven studies and computing skills acquisition in the humanities;

To provide, through periodic publications and other forms of intellectual discourses and conversations, a national policy direction on how to develop the capacity and the necessary scientific competencies that will address contemporary challenges in Nigerian society and the global community;

To contribute to the drive towards a knowledge-based society.