In order to facilitate a range of discussions among different groups likely to be interested in the Digital Panopticon’s themes, we have created a discussion forum using Google Groups:

https://groups.google.com/a/sheffield.ac.uk/forum/#!forum/digitalpanopticon

The purpose of the forum is to provide an informal community space and an online space for the project team and our audiences to share knowledge and learn from each other. We welcome discussion relating to any of the research themes, for example:

• criminal justice history and policy
• biometrics and health
• family histories
• data visualisation
• record linkage
• the impact and ethics of digital history

Joining should be straightforward (though I’m still getting used to how it works myself so I might have got something wrong: email sharon.howard@sheffield.ac.uk if you have any problems!): see the Google Groups Help for more information.