DH Blog
SMKE workshop: Social Media and the Museum
Thu, 16 May 2013 15:55:55 +0000
Thursday 6th June, 9:30am-5:00pm Room G31, Foster Court As part of the Social Media Knowledge Exchange (SMKE), UCL, together with its project partners, is hosting a one day workshop on 6th June on the theme: Social Media and the Museum. General workshop theme: how social media is changing museum practice and visitor experience; how social media can be [...]
Read more...Reference cultures in Europe – Major European research grant awarded
Tue, 07 May 2013 15:43:08 +0000
How did the large and cultural powerful countries Britain, France, and Germany influence public debates in smaller countries like the Netherlands, Belgium and Luxembourg? Cultural historians and digital humanists at UCL and the universities of Utrecht and Trier will address this question in the new research project Asymmetrical Encounters: E-Humanity Approaches to Reference Cultures in Europe, 1815–1992‘ [...]
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UCLDH comprises of a core management team, staff in Information Studies, taught graduate and doctoral students, plus visiting and affiliated individuals who contribute to the running of the Centre.
UCLDH Management Team
- Melissa Terras: Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Reader in Electronic Communication, UCL Department of Information Studies. Member of UCLDH Public Engagement Subgroup.
- Claire Warwick: Head of UCL Department of Information Studies; Professor of Digital Humanities; Vice-Dean for Research for the Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
- Tim Weyrich: Associate Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in the Virtual Environments and Computer Graphics group, UCL Department of Computer Science.
- Ulrich Tiedau: Associate Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Senior Lecturer in Modern Low Countries History and Society, UCL Department of Dutch.
- Martin Austwick: Associate Director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Lecturer in Advanced Spatial Analysis and Visualization, The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL-CASA). Member of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Public Engagement Subgroup.
- David Beavan: Research Manager of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Senior Research Associate, UCL Department of Information Studies.
UCLDH Team
- Chris Dillon: Research Associate of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Research Associate, UCL Department of Information Studies; honorary member, UCL Department of Computer Science.
- Oliver Duke-Williams: Events Manager of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Lecturer in Digital Information Studies, UCL Department of Information Studies.
- Steven Gray: Research Associate of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; PhD student, The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis (UCL-CASA). Member of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Public Engagement Subgroup.
- Simon Mahony: Programme Director of the MA/MSc in Digital Humanities; Teaching Fellow in Digital Humanities, UCL Department of Information Studies.
- Julianne Nyhan: European Liaison Manager of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Lecturer in Digital Information Studies, UCL Department of Information Studies.
- Claire Ross: Student Liaison; recipient of the UCLDH PhD studentship, UCL Department of Information Studies. Member of the UCLDH Public Engagement Subgroup.
- Anne Welsh: Digital Identity Manager of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities; Lecturer in Library and Information Studies, UCL Department of Information Studies. Member of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities Public Engagement Subgroup.
Affiliated Team members
- Tim Causer: Research Associate, UCL Bentham Project.
- Nicolas Gold: Senior Lecturer, UCL Department of Computer Science.
- Lorna Hughes: University of Wales Chair in Digital Collections; Senior Research Fellow, Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies.
- Jamie O'Brien: Manager, EngD VEIV Centre for Doctoral Training, UCL Department of Computer Science.
- Ernesto Priego: HASTAC Scholar; Co-founder and Coordinating Editor, the Comics Grid.
- Stan Ruecker: Associate Professor of Humanities Computing Programme in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada.
- Edward Vanhoutte: Research Associate, UCL Department of Information Studies; Coordinator of the CTB (Centre for Scholarly Editing and Document Studies) a research institute of KANTL (Royal Academy of Dutch Language and Literature), Ghent, Belgium.
- Shirley Williams: Visiting Researcher, UCL Department of Information Studies; National Teaching Fellow and Professor of Learning Technologies, University of Reading.
- Sarah Young: Lecturer in Russian, UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies.
- Rudolf Ammann: Designer, PhD candidate, UCL Department of Information Studies.
- Adam Gibson: Research Associate; Reader, UCL Dept of
Medical Physics & Bioengineering.
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