As interest in digital pedagogies and technologies in the classroom continued to rise in 2025, ECDS saw a total number of 1297 consultations conducted by full-time faculty and staff, graduate trainees, and graduate fellows for over 50 different departments, programs, & centers across the Emory enterprise. Whether one-on-one or in a group, scheduled or through walk-ins, the Center’s team advises on digital projects or problems with the technologies they specialize in, which include audiovisual production, monograph & journal publishing, data visualization, & mapping.
The Digital Scholarship Training Program (DSTP) is a paid training program for Emory Graduate Students from any department or academic discipline. It presents a unique opportunity for graduate students to learn digital scholarship skills, theories, and methods relating to research and pedagogy.
Students work with faculty, staff, and students on digital research and pedagogy-related questions. They are also paired with ongoing projects in their area of interest and learn the necessary skills while gaining valuable experience in digital scholarship.
The ECDS program offers opportunities for advancement, increased responsibility, and substantial CV-building. The program’s training and professional development aspects are designed to prepare all ECDS students to be successful in careers within, alongside, and beyond academia. In addition, the graduate coordinator regularly met individually with students for one-on-one career counseling and to support students in developing their grant application materials.
In 2025, sixteen students participated in the DSTP. Our students represented a wide range of disciplines: English, Development Practice, Sociology, Computer Science, Environmental Sciences, Philosophy, Religion, Physical Therapy, Comparative Literature and more.
Since the Summer 2023 semester, ECDS also offers one-semester experiential internships that allow students to explore alternative career paths.
ECDS conducted a series of 18 workshops across Spring and Fall 2025, spanning the following topics:
486 people RSVPed to this synchronous line-up, averaging 27 people per class. Workshop recordings were also hosted on the ECDS Workshop Scholarblogs page for continued asynchronous reference material. This year also marked the first time ECDS has run in-person workshops since the Covid-19 pandemic, allowing attendants more hands-on help with learning new software and the ability to experience workshops that require a physical presence such as the Intro to Augmented Reality workshop.
