Simon Mahony

Professor Simon Mahony
Emeritus Professor of Digital Humanities, Department of Information Studies, UCL;
Visiting Professor, Department of Information Management, Peking University.

2020-2023 Professor and Executive Director of the Research Centre for Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities, Beijing Normal University
2017-2020 Director UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, UCLDH
2010-2017 Programme Director MA/MSc Digital Humanities

• Corresponding Member of the Sub-Committee on Education and Research (SCEaR), UNESCO Memory of the World Programme (2019 - present).
• Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (RHS) (2022 - present)
• Associate Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London). (2010 - 2024)
• Research Affiliate, Department of War Studies, King’s College London. (2020 - present)

• Member of the iSchools Consortium committee for Digital Humanities Curriculum Design;
• Advisory Board for the University of Cincinnati's Digital Scholarship Center (DSC);
• Advisory Council of Panta Rei, Revista digital de ciencia y didactica de la Historia at the University of Murcia;
• Editorial Board of Journal of Open Humanities Data (JOHD)
• University of London's Centre for Distance Education.
• Individual Supporter of the Programming Historian.

Trans-Atlantic yachtsman.

Email: s.mahony@ucl.ac.uk
ORCID: 0000-0001-9811-9381 

Bluesky: @SimonMahony.bsky.social
Twitter: @simon_mahony
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/simon-mahony-7507218/

UCL correspondence address:
Simon Mahony
Department of Information Studies
Foster Court
University College London
Gower Street
London WC1E 6BT
UK

Doctoral Students:

• Giacometti, Alejandro (2014) ‘Evaluating Multispectral Imaging Processing Methodologies for Analysing Cultural Heritage Documents’. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
• Kamposiori, Christina: (2018) 'Personal Research Collections: Examining Research Practices and User Needs in Art Historical Research'. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
• Franzini, Greta Hayley: (2019) 'Towards a first digital edition of the oldest surviving manuscript of St Augustine's De civitate Dei'. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
• Routsis, Vasileios: (2020) 'Informational Privacy and Self-Disclosure Online: A Critical Mixed-Methods Approach to Social Media'. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
• Gao, Jin: (2021) 'Visualising the intellectual and social structures of Digital Humanities using an invisible college model'. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
• Loboda, Olga: (2022) 'The transformations of museum experience with an item-based recommender system during exploratory search'. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London).
• Liu, Bingjun: (2025) 'Exploring the development of social media practices and user engagement on Facebook: A longitudinal analysis of London art museums from 2014 to 2021'. Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London)

Research Associate and Collaborator:

• Yaming (Cindy) Fu 
• Lecturer at the School of Cultural Heritage and Information Management, Shanghai University.
• Doctoral thesis, UCL (University College London) (2021): 'Experiencing the Academic Library in the Digital Age'.

Webpage: https://schim.shu.edu.cn/info/1480/7193.htm
ORCID: 0000-0001-9736-4916

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/yaming-fu-0425275b/