Centre of Governance & Human Rights (CGHR), University of Cambridge – Open Source Investigation for Academics

Centre of Governance & Human Rights (CGHR), University of Cambridge

Open Source Investigation for Academics

This course, developed in partnership with Cambridge Digital Humanities, the Centre of Governance and Human Rights and the Social Science Research Methods Program, foregrounds a critical and reflexive approach to open-source investigation. Students learn practical skills to evaluate social media content, online databases and satellite images, whilst integrating considerations of ethics and power. The eight-week course, delivered by DVC leads and a variety of expert guests via pre-recorded lectures and hands-on Zoom seminars, covers the following topics: introduction, vicarious trauma, discovery, verification tools and tactics, geolocation, digital footprints, archiving/data curation and ethics.