MSc Data Science in Cultural Heritage at Durham University

The Data Science in Cultural Heritage MSc equips you with cutting-edge data science skills to tackle real-world challenges in heritage preservation, from digitising artefacts to analysing architectural datasets preparing you for impactful careers in cultural heritage, museums, conservation, and beyond. Cultural heritage offers a sense of identity, helps maintain social diversity, cohesion, and intercultural dialogue, and forms part of our basic right to participate in cultural life. Data science techniques are playing an increasing role in this sector, helping practitioners to monitor and protect heritage assets such as archaeological sites, present information to the public and critically assess the role of heritage in contemporary debates.

Faculty: Faculty of Science  |  Department: Natural Sciences  |  Duration: 1 year full-time  |  Study mode: full-time  |  Intake: September 2027  |  Location: Durham, England, United Kingdom

What you will study

The course begins with a range of introductory modules before progressing to more advanced contemporary techniques such as neural networks, analysis of spatial and temporal datasets and deep learning. Optional modules allow you to focus on an area of interest. Compulsory modules include Data Science Research Project, Critical Perspectives in Data Science and AI, Data Analysis in Space and Time, Data Science Applications in Heritage and Archaeology, Programming for Data Science, Introduction to Statistics for Data Science.

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