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 twelve 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 research software engineering practices and design thinking, and was a Trustee of the Society of Research Software Engineering 2023-25.
Projects
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New Christian Materiality MATERIA
FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London
2026–2030
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STEP-UP: a Strategic TEchnical Platform for University technical Professionals
King's Digital Lab, KCL eResearch, King's College, London, Imperial College London, University College London
2024–2027
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Social Dynamics of People's War
Defence Studies, King's College, London
2024–2025
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Alice Thornton digital edition
University of Edinburgh
2021–2025
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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021 IRT
FAH Department of Classics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London
2009–2021
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Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica IRCYR
FAH Department of Classics, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London
2020
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Making of Charlemagne's Europe MKCHEUR
FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King's College, London
2012–2014
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Henry III Fine Rolls
FAH Department of History, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, FAH Department of Digital Humanities, King's College, London
2008–2011