Teaching
research-led, project-based, and student-centred teaching with real-world relevance
Digital Humanities
As a committed educator, I combine research-led, project-based, and student-centred teaching with real-world relevance and assessments. I have high retention rates and frequently receive positive, unsolicited feedback from my students.
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An updated version of my pedagogy for teaching Digital Humanities is due to appear in the forthcoming Routledge Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice in 2025. The pedagogy underpinning my undergraduate course Being Human in the Digital Age was published in 2020
(Educational Media International, Routledge, IF 2.17).
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My teaching has been awarded twice by the Australian National University:
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College of Arts and Social Sciences in 2021 with a Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning, co-awarded with Dr Katrina Grant
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Vice-Chancellor’s Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (Highly commended), again co-awarded with Dr Katrina Grant, in 2023. ​
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Computation in GLAM
The project-based teaching collaborations with the GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) sector were published in the proceedings of the MuseWeb conference in 2021 (as well as on the British Library Lab’s blog). My teaching has been recognised through successful collaborations with the National Museum of Australia and the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.
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I won the Digital Collections Competition Education Category Award
from the British Library Labs in 2020:
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“The panel felt this was an exemplary use of the British Library’s digital collections and data in a Digital Scholarship context and an excellent template for further collaboration with British Library Labs and other GLAM Labs working with educational institutions especially in the area of Digital Humanities. We were particularly impressed with Terhi’s grading criteria that recognised ambition in projects and Terhi’s decision to have interdisciplinary, gender-balanced, multilingual project groups.”
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For an example of a project built by my students as a GLAM sector collaboration, see Home of the Blizzard, a choose-your-own-adventure game built by my student Sophia Booij working with the materials and colleagues from the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia: https://blizzard.nfsa.gov.au/
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Linked (Open) Data
My expertise and experience in teaching the Linked Data methodology in an interdisciplinary context enabled me to convene and teach the five-day long “Linked Data for Digital Humanities'' workshop at the University of Oxford’s Digital Humanities Summer School 2014 - 2023.
The participants were a mix of academics at various career levels and GLAM (galleries, libraries, archives, and museums) sector professionals.
In 2022, I published an article in the Journal of Open Humanities Data detailing my pedagogy for this Linked Data workshop.
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I have also taught abbreviated versions of this workshop at the UK National Archives, as well as at the University of Waikato (New Zealand Aotearoa), University of Western Sydney, and University of New England (the latter two are both in Australia).
Photogrammetry
I have taught a 3D modelling (specifically using photogrammetry) workshop together with Dr Katrina Grant to students at the University of Cambridge, UK, and to staff at the National Museum of Australia.
A skills exchange was also part of our engagement with the Lelepa community in Vanuatu in 2025.
Thesis Supervision
I have supervised several students through their thesis, at Honours, Masters, and PhD level.
Examples of these include:
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Forging a Path to Understanding: Integrating and Analyzing War History Data through Knowledge Graph Technologies (PhD)
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Using Machine Learning to Identify Posts with Suicide Ideation on Social Media (PhD)
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"Emerge from shadow”: building the bulwarks of history with the technology of modernity –
remembering the Tomb of the Augurs (Masters)
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Analysis and Visualization of Narrative in “Shanhaijing” Using Linked Data (Honours)
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