I'm a Research Associate for the University of Sheffield's Digital Humanities Institute (DHI), in the School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities. As part of my role, I'm responsible for developing and supporting the DHI’s strategic research theme, Digital Representation of Cultural Artefacts, which sets out to advance the state of the art in the digital capture, interpretation and representation of physical culture.
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My main research interests include AI-enabled Automated Text Recognition (ATR) and its critical use at-scale on historical archives and manuscripts. This has led to research partnerships with the Library of Congress and National Library of Scotland, as well as numerous galleries, libraries, archives and museums. I'm interested in digital libraries, critical digitisation, information and user studies in libraries and libraries as 'third spaces', alongside text and data mining specifically on religious cultural heritage material, as well as how these technologies map onto traditional historical methods of research. I completed a PhD from the University of Edinburgh's School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures in 2025, supported by the National Library of Scotland and ATR cooperative READ/Transkribus. For more information, see the bio tab.​​
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I also do modest image recognition, 3D modelling, geospatial data and digital genealogical research.
Production Note:
This site was designed using a WIX template, over coffee with my partner Ella who, being an software designer, reeled from my garish starting template and helped make it more accessible. If there's anything you feel we could do to make this blog even more accessible, please let us know. We started in 14 px Poppins Extra Light.
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The picture - I'm not one for pictures - was taken by Gina Nguyen, a fantastic intern at the Kluge Center, Library of Congress, currently completing an MA in Computer Science and Neuroscience from the University of Texas at Dallas (https://www.linkedin.com/in/reach-gina-nguyen/). Her work contributed to the Frederick Douglass automated transcription and text analysis mentioned in the papers and bio section.
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All views expressed on this blog are my own, and definitely not as polished as elsewhere - apologies.
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