Senior Research Software Engineer
Mary Chester-Kadwell is a research software engineer, originally from a humanities background. She has a PhD in the landscape archaeology and material culture of early-medieval England using GIS and computational methods.
She has worked on software projects for over ten years, including at the British Museum and University of Cambridge. Mary has wide-ranging experience in working on large and small projects around library special collections, archival material, museum objects and digital humanities of many forms.
Mary is interested in teaching coding, software engineering practices and design thinking, and is a Trustee of the Society of Research Software Engineering.
Projects
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LGBTQ+ Policymaking in the UK: From research to implementation
FAH Department of Digital Humanities, FAH Department of Classics, FAH Department of English, FAH Department of Languages, Literatures and Cultures, FAH Department of Liberal Arts, FAH Department of Interdisciplinary Humanities, Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy, The Dickson Poon School of Law, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing, Midwifery & Palliative Care, King's Business School, Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience
2025–2025
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Social Dynamics of People's War
Defense Studies
2024–2025
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Alice Thornton's BooksAT
University of Edinburgh
2021–2024