Erasmus Studio
New media and information technology facilitate new scholarly practices and novel sorts of knowledge acquisition and encoding. This is commonly referred to with the label e-research. The Erasmus University (EUR) aims to promote as well as to study e-research. To this end the EUR and the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) launched a new research institute which started its activities in June 2007: Erasmus Virtual Knowledge Studio, or in short: the Erasmus Studio.
The Erasmus Studio will carry out a research programme including a number of projects with researchers from various disciplinary backgrounds, such as social sciences, economics, management research, and informatics. The Erasmus Studio will also organize a series of interdisciplinary seminars, both in zaal De Unie (aiming at various audiences with an interest in research based on novel methods), and on-campus (with participation from both senior researchers as well as PhD students and undergraduates).
Erasmus Studio collaborates closely with KNAW's eHumanities Group in Amsterdam which started in January 2011. A similar initiative is the Maastricht Virtual Knowledge Studio which was launched in October 2007 and has been initiated by the KNAW and the University of Maastricht. The Erasmus Studio secretariat is housed by the Erasmus School of Economics.
The research community formed by the members of the Erasmus Studio covers a wide range of disciplinary backgrounds and interests, and is firmly rooted in scholarly networks and publication channels.
