Aboutme

Hi! It's me.

I have a strong grasp of digital scholarship, particularly concerning digital archives and misinformation. Currently, I'm a Chancellor's Fellow in Humanities Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. Previously, I was a Lecturer in History and Data Science at Northeastern University London. Here is a selection of some previous experience of mine which the project can build on.

As a Research Fellow in Advanced Digital Methods (2020-2021) at the National Archives, my task was cleaning, visualising, and analysing the Operation War Diary dataset, which is an enormous, born-digital, crowdsourced annotation collection.
You can read about its challenges here and here , and you can also consult the first paper published from this research. A second paper is on the way, which is going to be published in the edited volume Digital Ecology in Arts and Humanities: Epistemology, Aesthetics and Politics by Amsterdam University Press in 2024.

A screenshot of one of my web apps, Stories from the Western Front, developed for the project.

One of our visualisations was an interactive map I coded

The Archive of Tomorrow Methods Fellowship was not my first encounter with researching misinformation. As a journalist, I was part of multimedia teams working on fake news, where we aimed at visualising and disseminating the problem via interactive platforms (like here and here.)

As British Telecom - ESRC Cambridge Research Intern (2021), I used machine learning to tackle 5G misinformation on Twitter. I talk about this project here. It won the first prize in the first round of the Digital Futures category at the PresentIn10 competition, and we have two manuscripts in the drawer ready to be published.

A blogpost about my work with BT.

My experiment with visualising emotions detected in heritage reviews.

However, I don't stick only to digital archives and misinformation. In my most recent research, soon to be published in the International Handbook of Heritage and Affect by Routledge, I experimented with building an ontology for emotion detection for the heritage sector in order to overcome the bias built in crowdsourced dictionaries. I give an intro to the concepts and the problems in this talk.

Besides research, I'm keen on Front-End development for the GLAM sector. I designed the digital outputs of the Unforgotten Lives exhibition of the London Metropolitan Archives (LMA) . As part of the Mapping Black London team, I was responsible for finding and re-telling stories of the pre-20th century ethnic diversity in London. I developed two digital components. Firstly, an ‘Interactive Map’ in the heart of the exhibition space allows users to interact with the Switching the Lens dataset, browse by parish, look up specific regions, and find people and places mentioned in the exhibition. Secondly, a smartphone walking application encourages the visitors to interact with the heritage of Black London after leaving the exhibition, extending it over the walls of the archives and directly exploring the city. The video shows its usage. Currently, I also have commissions for the interactive visualisation of the medieval Ely pilgrimage routes and for creating mobile apps for the community walks of the Cambridge Biomedical Campus. I would be absolutely thrilled to design apps for NLS.

Walking app demo.

I can communicate. I have bachelor's and master's degrees in Communication and years of work experience as a journalist and institutional communicator. But then, I decided to dedicate my life to an academic career. However, I did not abandon the subject as a researcher either. I designed and taught the Research Communications module at Anglia Ruskin University, where students learn how to formulate their message, choose their audience and the matching format for their stories while acquiring technical skills for digital storytelling. I'm ready to put these skills into service for outreach at the NLS.