A/Prof Robert Ackland was successful in the College of Arts and Social Sciences Internal Grants Scheme for a proposed workshop titled 'Obtaining new insight from big data: Humanities and social science research at scale'.

Other contributors to the grant application were: A/Prof Robert Ackland (ADSRI), Dr Katherine Bode (Centre for Digital Humanities Research (CDHR)), Prof Roderic Broadhurst (School of Sociology), A/Prof Darren Halpin (Sociology), Dr Piers Kelly (School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (SLLL), Dr Julieanne Lamond (SLLL), Dr Glenn Roe (CDHR), Prof Jane Simpson (SLLL), Dr Gavin Smith (Sociology), Prof Catherine Travis (SLLL).