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.
Year the project was started | 2021 |
Year the project was completed | in progress |
Website | https://www.cghr.polis.cam.ac.uk/projects/open-source-investigation-academics |
Technology categories | OSINT |
Themes | Human rights, Peacemaking & Dialogue |
Topic/ Focus | Academic open-source investigation (Critical and reflexive) |
Methodology & Data | evaluate social media content, online databases and satellite images, integrate considerations of ethics and power |
Contribution & Discoveries / Practical Applications | Topics: vicarious trauma, discovery, verification tools and tactics, geolocation, digital footprints, archiving/data curation and ethics. |