People

Mary is a research software engineer, originally from an archaeology background, and has worked on software projects for over ten years, including at the British Museum and University of Cambridge. She 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, sustainable software engineering practices and design thinking, and is a Trustee of the Society of Research Software Engineering. 

Neil joined the Department of Digital Humanities as a Research Developer in 2011 to help steer development in the spatial turn that DH research that was enjoying at that time. Arriving with a background in environmental analysis, spatial statistics, his interests within the department broadened to encompass the diversity of topics in the department’s portfolio. His role within the Lab has now evolved to encompass cultivating new projects and relationships in the digital community and beyond as a Project Analyst. As one of three permanent analysts in the Lab, Neil oversees has particular responsibility over those which involve digital creative practice in emerging technologies. 

Jonathan is Digital Humanities Research Software Engineer at Cambridge Digital Humanities. Previously he worked on Digital Humanities projects at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, and before that at the Oxford Digital Library in the Bodleian. Going back even further, he worked as a lexicographer at Oxford University Press, across the range of English dictionaries and thesauri. 

Lucia’s main responsibilities involve managing and developing the CDCS Training Programme, a programme which focuses on identifying and providing a variety of training on applied digital research to respond to researchers’ needs across the College of Arts, Humanities and Social Science. She has considerable experience in designing and delivering training courses focused on data skills and digital research methods, and can apply specialist technical expertise and knowledge to developing a digital research methods training programme. Having been awarded a PhD in Classics from the University of Edinburgh in 2019, Lucia’s research background in the Digital Humanities has equipped her with a great deal of experience in applying digital methods to research projects, as well as the ability to support the development of data-intensive projects. 

Pam Mellen

Research Software Lab Manager, King’s Digital Lab

Alessandra Esposito

Research Software Project Manager, King’s Digital Lab

Ryan Heuser

Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities, Cambridge Digital Humanities, University of Cambridge

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