The people of KDL

Samantha has an MLIS and received her training in the field of digitisation through her work at the New Zealand Electronic Text Centre. She has worked on a wide variety of digitisation projects, large and small, both in NZ and in the UK. She has written or co-written articles around interlibrary loan, digitisation and Mātauranga Māori, digitisation in small institutions and orphan work licensing schemes.

Paul Caton took up his first digital humanities post - as Electronic Publications Editor at the Women Writers Project - whilst completing his Ph.D in English Literature at Brown University. He also worked as a project analyst for Brown's Scholarly Technology Group.

Arianna is an Analyst at KDL and has broad experience in digital humanities research and teaching, research management, and digital research infrastructures. She holds a PhD in Manuscript and Book Studies (digital palaeography, University of Siena), an MA in Applied Computing in the Humanities (King’s College London) and a BA Hons in Communication sciences (computational linguistics, University of Siena).

Lead UI/UX Designer, Ginestra is also a co-organiser of London Web Standards, a non-profit organisation that provides monthly events for web enthusiasts and the annual conference State of the Browser.

Elliott's research is at the technical end of the department's spectrum. His focus is on building sites that bring a new level of interactivity to work with data that is often fuzzy and confusing.

Neil came to the Department of Digital Humanities as a Research Developer in 2011 to help guide development in the spatial turn that DH research was enjoying at that time. He specializes in digital creative practice  (in particular using 3D technologies) and in geographic information systems.

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Pamela Mellen manages a large portfolio of KDL projects, coordinating between the KDL development team and our range of external partners. She has worked at King's since 2012, where she developed a solid background in research management before moving across to the newly formed Digital Lab in 2016.

Geoffroy is a programmer analyst who joined King's College London in 2008, after more than nine years working for various technology startups in Brussels and London, and has since contributed to and led the analysis and software development of several Digital Humanities projects.

Tiffany is a designer with a background in textiles.  She completed her BA in Ravensbourne college and later an MA at the Royal College of Art. 

Urszula is a Marie Curie Research Fellow at King’s Digital Lab. Prior to this position, she was a postdoctoral researcher at Aalto University, a Fulbright scholar at Washington State University Vancouver, and a fellow at Stony Brook University, King’s College London, and the University of Birmingham. 

Florence supports the delivery of KDL's projects. She completed the MA Digital Humanities at King's College London in 2016 and has experience in the IT and GLAM sector.

Miguel Vieira has worked in the digital humanities domain since 2006, when he joined the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at King's College London.

Tim loves Linux and Perl and is a firm believer that open source software benefits mankind.

Marilyn has 20 years experience in digital humanities. Formerly the Director of the Centre for Humanities Computing, Oxford University. Director of Digital Resources, Refugee Studies Centre, Oxford University (1997-2004).

Stuart Dunn is Head of the Department of Digital Humanities at King's. He started out as an archaeologist, with interests in the history of cartography, digital approaches to landscape studies, and spatial humanities. Stuart has worked with members of the KDL team on many projects.

Willard began with mainframes, trained as a Miltonist with focus on biblical and classical literature, helped nurture infant digital humanities and is now a persistent questioner of its fitness to be of as well as in these disciplines. 

Charlotte is a classicist by training, with a particular interest in the later periods of the Roman world, and in the Byzantine Empire. She has worked with the digital humanists at King’s since the early 1990s, and since 2004 has published online corpora, and literary texts, exploring the uses of changing technologies.

Harold Short is Emeritus Professor of King’s College London, where he founded and directed the Centre for Computing in the Humanities.

Simon Tanner has over 20 years’ experience working  with major cultural institutions across the world to assist them to transform their collections and online presence. 

John has worked in the Digital Humanities since the late 1970s; first at the University of Toronto, and then, starting in 1997, at King's College London in the Department of Digital Humanities (initially called the Centre for Computing in the Humanities).

Katherine Bode is Associate Professor of Literary and Textual Studies at the Australian National University and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow from 2018 to 2022. 

Alessandra is an archaeologist interested in archaeological data visualisation and linked data in archaeology. She has worked at KDL as Research Assistant on the AHRC/Newton funded project MaDiH (مديح): Mapping Digital Cultural Heritage in Jordan.

Peter Stokes is directeur d'études en humanités numériques et computationnelles appliquées à l’étude de l’écrit ancien (approximately 'research professor in digital and computational humanities applied to historical writing') at the École Pratique des Hautes Études – Université PSL, Section des Sciences Historiques et Philologiques at the Sorbonne, in Laboratoire Archéologie et Philologie d’Orient et d’Occident (AOROC, UMR 8546). His current primary research focus is on multigraphism (the use of different scripts or writing-systems), particularly in medieval Europe, combining the fields of palaeography, digital humanities and computer science.

Luis worked as a software developer at KDL from 2015-2016.

With a background in digital humanities and front-end development, Olga joined King’s Digital Lab as a UX/UI Designer from 2019 to 2021.

Chris worked on the project 'Modelling between Digital and Humanities: Thinking in Practice', funded by the Volkswagen Foundation, from September 2017-April 2018. 

Natasha was KDL's  Digital Methods Lead from July-December 2019 as part of DARIAH-DESIR project.

Priyal contributed to the Alice Thornton project, amongst others during her time as a UI/UX Designer at the Lab

James Smithies was Director of King’s Digital Lab (KDL) at King’s College London from 2015-September 2021.

Carina worked at King’s Digital Lab as project manager, collaborating with her colleagues to develop processes for putting 100 legacy digital humanities projects under contractual agreement and secure maintenance or responsible archiving.

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