数字人文科学建议应包括强大的数字成分，既可以作为研究和传播的核心方法，也可以作为研究的主题。提案可以涉及数字人文学科内的任何主题，包括（但不限于）：档案和保存，作者归属，古典研究，语料库分析，众包，历史研究，跨学科合作，互联网历史，文学研究，自然语言处理，本体，学术编辑，文体和笔法，文本挖掘，文本研究，可视化。
Digital Humanities proposals should include a strong digital component, either as a core method of research and dissemination, or as a subject of research in itself. Proposals may address any topic within Digital Humanities, including (but not limited to): archives & preservation, authorship attribution, classical studies, corpus analysis, crowdsourcing, historical studies, interdisciplinary collaboration, internet history, literary studies, natural language processing, ontologies, scholarly editing, stylistics and stylometry, text-mining, textual studies, visualisation. Previous DAH students have also worked closely with researchers at the Insight Centre for Data Analytics in Galway.<br><br>Digital Arts proposals may examine questions such as artistic practice informed by digital media, the intersection between artistic creativity and technological innovation, the impact of the digital on the form, structure and function of narrative. Proposals for practice-based doctorates are welcome as well as traditional academic formats.