This handbook sets out the processes and products of 'digital' research. It is a theoretical and practical guide on how to undertake and navigate advanced research in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Introduction - Richard Andrews, Erik Borg, Stephen Boyd Davis, Myrrh Domingo and Jude EnglandPART ONE: INSTITUTIONAL PERSPECTIVESThe Thesis: Texts and Machines - Erik Borg and Stephen Boyd DavisNew Forms of Dissertation - Richard Andrews and Jude EnglandThe Role of Doctoral and Graduate Schools - Richard P.J. Freeman and Andrew TolmieDigital Literacies for the Research Institution - Helen Beetham, Allison Littlejohn and Colin MilliganPART TWO: STUDENT PERSPECTIVESMedia Systems, Multimodality and Post-Humanism - Lesley GourlayReframing the Performing Arts - Zoe Beardshaw AndrewsComplexity Theory - June Elizabeth ParnellRe-Imagining the Conditions of Possibility of a PhD Thesis - Jude FransmanTraditional Theses and Multimodal Communication - Dylan Yamada-RicePART THREE: ETHICAL AND INTERCULTURAL ISSUESEthics and Representation - Bronwyn T. Williams and Mary Brydon-MillerCopyright Managment Approaches - Brian Fitzgerald and Damien O'BrienUnderstanding Identity Representations in Multimodal Research - Pauline Hope CheongThe Social Life of Digital Texts in Multimodal Research - Myrrh DomingoPART FOUR: MULTIMODALITY,INCLUDING THE REPRESENTATION AND PRESENTATION OF THESES AND DISSERTATIONSResearching in Conditions of Provisionality: Reflecting on the PhD in the Digital and Multimodal Era - Gunther KressPractice-as-Research in Music Performance - Mine Dogantan-DackTranslating Lydia Cabrera: A Case Study in Digital (Re)Presentation - Anna-Marjatta MilsomDisciplinary 'Specificity' and the Digital Submission - Susan MelroseDigits and Figures: A Manual Drawing Practice and Its Modes of Reproduction - Juliet MacDonaldPART FIVE: ARCHIVING, STORAGE AND ACCESSIBILITY IN THE DIGITAL AGEThe Research Catalogue: A Model for Dissertations and Theses - Michael SchwabThe Changing Role of Library and Information Services - Joanna NewmanAnimating the Archive - Martin RieserEstablishing the Cybertextual in Practice-Based PhDs - Lisa StansbiePART SIX: RESEARCH METHODSA Modern PhD: Doctoral Education in Australian Universities in Digital Times - Ilana Snyder and Denise BealeHow Changes in Representation Can Affect Meaning - Amy Alexandra WilsonResearching Adoloscents' Literacies Multimodally - Lalitha Vasudevan and Tiffany DeJaynesImplication for Research Training and Examination for Design PhDs - Joyce S.R. YeeUncaged Boxed-up - Ralf NuhnIndex