Human stories in an AI age
At a time when artificial intelligence (AI) increasingly shapes how knowledge is organised, analysed, and acted upon, a University of Leeds resource offers the nuance, contradiction, and lived complexity of human existence.
The Timescapes Archive, a pioneering national repository for qualitative longitudinal data led by Professor Kahryn Hughes at the School of Sociology, is an essential asset for researchers and students across a wide range of disciplines, from sociology and social policy to health, psychology and environmental studies. With more than 840 datasets and nearly 20,000 files, it is one of the world's leading social science collections of qualitative longitudinal materials documenting how lives change over time.
Read the full research story Watch the video summary (YouTube)Impact
- Supports researchers with qualitative data for research into social sciences, health, environmental studies and more.
Key information
- Major funders: Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)
- Partners and collaborators: UKRI, the ESRC, the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM), the Irish Qualitative Data Archive, and the former European Qualitative and QL Archiving Network (EQUALAN)
- Disciplines: social sciences, sociology, health, psychology, environmental studies
- Investigators: Professor Kahryn Hughes.
Keywords: Large language models, generative AI, database, archive, arts and culture, humanities, diverse communities, diversity, qualitative longitudinal materials, childhood, family life, care, motherhood and fatherhood, work/life balance, disability, poverty, welfare, automation and quantitative logics, resistance, lived realities, social histories, social justice