Research fields:

• Computational Creativity
• Stories and Software
• AI
• Software Engineering

I am interested in the space between language, creativity, stories and computations and how we think with and through stories (story-thinking) and with and through computations (computational-thinking) and how we abstract and represent.

My principal digital interests are in:

• Artificial Intelligence (AI)
• Computational Creativity and Language

I am interested in the contribution and impact of computation on non-computational disciplines, principally how we think with and through stories, but also more generally in relation to language and creativity.

• Leadership
• Sustainable and ethical finance
• SME finance
• Islamic Finance
• Digital education
• Business management

I have consistently championed the importance of leadership and leadership development. This has included proactively demonstrating pedagogical innovation, creativity, academic excellence and relevance. 

My digital interests are in:

• Digital enhanced learning
• Online learning communities
• Equality of access to finance (online banking etc.)

Digital tools/platforms/software:

• Twitter
• MS Forms
• SPSS
• Excel
• MS Teams 

• Ireland
• Northern Ireland
• Museums
• Empire
• Colonialism
• Decolonisation
• Autoethnography
• Identity
• Visualities
• Epistemologies
• Affect
• Emotion
• Binaries

My research is on the legacies of empire and colonialism in Northern Ireland, and the role of museums in these debates. I seek to use public anthropology and social history to explore how contemporary identities connect with colonial collections. My interdisciplinary approach engages with both academic and museum research, including collaborating with living communities, and with historical perspectives represented within collections and archives.

I seek out close biographical reading that can be gathered from object documentation, from direct experiences of objects and from personal memories, in order to more fully understand the impacts of colonisers on Indigenous communities, and also to investigate conceptions about the colonial past. In my current research project, Museums, Empire and Northern Irish Identity, I try to locate knowledge about the colonial objects in Northern Ireland’s museums, to support community engagement with them, and to build collaborative partnerships leading to their fuller research.

My digital interests are in:

• Digital collections & exhibitions
• Digital catalogues
• Mapping / GIS
• Digitisation of artefacts and archives

Digital tools/platforms/software:

• NVivo
• ESRI
• ArcGIS
• Omeka / Omeka S
• NodeGoat

In addition to using digital tools in my ongoing research, I'm developing digital engagement platforms focusing on empire and colonialism including for growing the impacts of my current Fellowship, 'Museums, Empire and Northern Irish Identity'. 

• Book history
• Scholarly editing

My research background is in Medieval Studies and the History of the Book, with a particular focus on Anglophone Literature in Late Medieval Ireland.  As part of my current role as Digital Scholarship Librarian, I deliver teaching and training on digital scholarship, palaeography, codicology and working with archives, and manage a long-running transcription project centred on the Sir Robert Hart Diaries. Alongside academic and research & innovation professional colleagues, I am a member of the QUB Digital Scholarship Hub Implementation Group. 

My digital interests are in:

• AI powered Handwritten text recognition
• Digitisation
• Digital collections and exhibitions
• Digital editions
• Digital preservation
• Digital Scholarship

Current digital research interests include the transcription and editing of handwritten texts and digital collections and exhibitions

Digital tools/platforms/software:

• CONTENTdm
• Omeka / Omeka S
• Storymap JS
• Timeline JS
• TimeMapper
• Transkribus

• China
• Irish Studies
• Archives
• Special collections
• Copyright

I am Head of Special Collections & Archives www.qub.ac.uk/specialcollections and a founder member of the Digital Scholarship Hub Implementation Group. 

My digital interests are in:

• Digitisation
• Digital collections and exhibitions
• Metadata
• Open access
• Digital preservation archiving
• Resource discovery tools

I am interested in digital scholarship and its potential to exploit archives and special collections to extend the reach of scholarship and facilitate new avenues of research. With the growing emphasis on public engagement and outreach I am keen to help support the development of online engagement opportunities through exhibitions and open access resources.

Digital tools/platforms/software:

• OMEKA
• ContentDM

Research fields: Women’s health, medical technologies, social media, digital protest & lived experience.

My current research focuses on understanding the harms experienced by a group of women implanted with a defective contraception device called Essure. More specifically, it is interested how the women use a private Facebook page to discuss and subvert these harms by creating knowledge of their medical issues. As a result, many women encounter difficulty accessing medical treatment, with healthcare professionals misdiagnosing or disbelieving their accounts of their health issues. This brings into question the value of lived experience in opposition to scientific knowledge within the medical sphere.

My digital interests are in:

• Social Media
• Digital protest

Research fields:

• Asian
• imperial
• transnational and world history
• historical social networks
• public history

My current research focuses on empire and transnational links in Asia, mapping imperialism and interconnection across space, ideas and social networks. The Robert Hart Project examines the far-reaching influence of an Irishman, Robert Hart, as Inspector-General of Chinese Maritime Customs in the last half-century of the Qing empire. The AHRC-funded project Reframing the Visualities of Imperial War examines the use of early photography in the development of visual vocabularies through which British imperialism in Asia was understood.

My principal digital interests are in:

• Mapping / GIS (ArcGIS, QGIS)
• Historical social networks (NodeGoat, R)
• Digital collections and exhibitions (Omeka, Omeka S)
• Digitisation of textual and visual materials

• Historical Social Networks
• Female Networks
• Graph Visualisation

My PhD project involves visualising the networks of foreign women in China during the late Qing period (1860-1911). I use a combination of traditional and digital research methods to construct their networks, analyse them and explain their impact. My project touches on themes of (semi-)colonialism, imperial careering, missionary organisations, female social structures, and gender norms.  

My digital interests are in:

• Historical Social Networks
• Graph Visualisation
• Network Analysis
• Database Construction
• Digitisation

Digital tools/platforms/software: 

• Gephi
• Nodegoat

• Arts and Health
• Arts-based interventions for health and wellbeing

I engage in transdisciplinary, collaborative research that focuses on two broad areas: simulation-based education for health and social care; arts-based interventions for public health. I work with colleagues from a broad range of subject areas including experimental medicine, medical education, nursing, public health, sociology and social work. The shared focus is on developing new methods from the creative interaction between diverse disciplines with the common goal of understanding and improving healthcare and wellbeing in local, national and international contexts.  

My digital interests are in:

• Improving health and wellbeing through the interaction between digital collections and live performance

I am the academic lead for Friel Reimagined, a unique drama research and engagement project based on the work of acclaimed playwright Brian Friel (1929-2015). The project is based at the School of Arts, English and Languages at Queen’s University, with support from the National Lottery Heritage Fund and The Steel Charitable Trust. Our project team is working to digitise a selection of Friel’s papers held at the National Library of Ireland, and open them up to connect diverse audiences with the legacy and writings of Friel. A key aim of the project is to improve health and wellbeing for social and economically challenged communities through the interaction between digital collections and live performance.

Digital tools/platforms/software: 

• NVivo
• SPSS
• Stata

Research fields:

• Linguistics
• Discourse Analysis
• Stylistics
• Pragmatics
• Literary Translation

I am interested in rhetoric and creativity in language use and language online is rich for such study. For instance, I have involved collected and analysed online memes, to better understand the genre, the rules and rhetorical styles used, as well as what makes a ‘successful’ meme. I am also interested in fake news and, more generally, how the online realm changes the dynamic of interaction and discourse.

My linguistic research is mostly qualitative, but sometimes I use Corpus Linguistics tools and software to analyse large quantities of digitised textual data. I have also been involved in research projects which have created data visualisations of discourse.

My digital interests are in:

• Corpus Linguistics (AntConc, Matrix, BNCWeb, LancsBox)
• Qualitative Analysis (Nvivo, Atlas.ti)
• Mapping (Visual Understanding Environment)

Research fields:

• Historical Geography
• Geohumanities
• Historical Landscapes
• Histories of Cartography
• Historical Cartography
• Digital Humanities
• Landscape Archaeology
• Urban Morphology

I specialise in historical geography and histories of cartography, planning and urbanism, using digital and geospatial technologies, tools and methods to explore material and imagined connections between past and present.

Current projects include combining GIS and prosopography in analysing historic maps of Britain and Ireland, and tracing global histories of field-surveying and geodetics through landscapes and maps. My AHRC-IRC funded OS200 project in partnership with the University of Limerick is using digital technologies to analyse and visualise how Ordnance Survey staff operated on the ground in the 19th century in Ireland. OS200 is part of a 6.5m euro programme funding 11 projects, bringing together world-leading expertise in the digital humanities across the UK and Ireland.

In recognition of my professional contribution to Geography, in 2018 I received from the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) the Cuthbert Peek Award 

"For advancing geographical knowledge through the application of contemporary methods, including GIS and mapping."

My digital interests are in:

• Mapping / GIS (ESRI)

• Architectural Heritage
• Oral History
• Heritage Studies

Research focus on Catholic Residential Institutions in Ireland, specifically the Magdalene Laundries 1922-1996.

Digital Research interests include using digitisation of archival material to enable the creation of 3D reconstructions of sites, which are used in oral history interviews with survivors to generate spatialised data.

• NVivo
• Blender
• Sketchfab
• AutoCAD

General Research Interests:

My broader research sits at the intersection of media, culture, and society, focusing on the nexus between digital media and race/ethnicity. Currently, I am researching how different societies experience and combat misinformation and disinformation in their everyday engagement with digital media. My research in the area of mis- and disinformation examines the relationship between culture, technologies and everyday practices. My current research has two major goals: (1) to examine and map multi-dimensional and complex scenarios of mis- and disinformation dissemination; and (2) to develop a set of effective and impactful tools and strategies using co-creational methodologies to support multi-cultural and multi-lingual communities to identify and debunk false claims and address the information and communication vulnerabilities within their own families and communities.

Research Fields:

Media and Misinformation

Digital Disinformation

Religion in the Digital Landscape

Digital Race and Ethnicity

Digital Media and Youth

Digital Research Interests:

My research explore and studies various digital discourse practices exist in the online media landscape with a particular reference to social media. My previous studies explored emerging narratives and identities as a result of religion's encounter with the digital media. My current research explore various issues and threats to the people and society as a result of mounting mis- and disinformation and hate speech in digital environments. I also research about the ways in which young people engage/disengage with the digital tools and spaces in their everyday lives and how such engagement impacts on their resilience practices. Broadly, I approach digital studies from a sociological and anthropological angle with a particular reference to the socio-cultural and political transformations.

Digital Discourse Practices

Digital Ethnography

AI Ethics

Digital Literacy

Research Fields:

• Digital Sustainability
• Digital Responsibility

General Research Interests:

• Human-AI Interaction
• Digital Sustainability
• Digital Responsibility

Digital Research Interests:

• AI
• Human-AI Interaction
• Digital Sustainability
• Digital Responsibility

Digital tolls/platforms/software:

• Mplus
• NVivo

• Sociolinguistics
• Language and Identity
• Multilingualism
• Language Contact, Migration

General Research interests: Youth language and Identity, Language Variation and Change

Digital Interests:

• Corpus Linguistics
• Language in new media

Corpus linguistic approaches to variation and change in language use, Social media data for (socio)linguistic research

Digital tools/platforms/software:

• SketchENgine
• AntConc
• LancsBox
• R

• Special Collections & Archives
• Rights Management
• Irish Studies
• Folk Music and Song

I have been working as Assistant Librarian in Special Collections since 2015. My current role involves a number of digital elements including the digitisation of rare books and manuscripts, the creation of accompanying workflow processes, digital archive management and the creation of digital exhibitions.

My digital interests are in:

• Digitisation
• Digital Collections & Exhibitions
• Metadata
• Digital Preservation

Digital tools/platforms/software:

• Omeka
• CMS
• ContentDM
• StoryMapJS

I am interested in the role played by technology within government bureaucracies, as well as in the changing relationship between citizens and the state.

I joined Library Services in 2017 and have held a number of roles in Special Collections, Open Access, and AFBI Library.  I am a member of the QUB Digital Scholarship Hub Implementation Group and assisted with the creation of the DSH website and Directory of Digital Scholars.  

My digital interests are in:

• Digitisation
• Digital collections and exhibitions
• Metadata
• Digital storytelling tools
• Open access
• Digital preservation

Digital tools/platforms/software:

• Timeline JS
• StoryMap JS
• TimeMapper
• Omeka
• CONTENTdm
• Microsoft Sway
• DSpace Direct

• Victorian culture
• Travel writing
• Colonial and postcolonial literature
• Imperial history
• History of the book

My digital interests are in:

• Remediation of manuscripts
• Digital editions and archives
• Textual encoding (TEI)

My primary research interest is in the literature of African exploration in the nineteenth century. Particularly, I am concerned with the ways in which exploration and its intercultural encounters were imagined and conceptualised in diverse Victorian records of expeditionary travel. My research has used digital tools to extend insight into the composition and production of such records. I have focused to date primarily on the manuscripts of the influential explorer and missionary, David Livingstone. My digital edition of Livingstone’s Missionary Travels offers critically remediated access to the 1000-page handwritten manuscript (alongside encoded transcriptions), and explores a complex literary journey in which the narrative was shaped for circulation in print.

• Forensic psychology
• Criminology

Interested in understanding self disclosures on social media, and how this can lead to cybercrime victimization

My digital interests are in:

• Cybercrime
• Social Media
• Self-disclosure on social media

Currently running a study on how and why self disclosures occur on Snapchat, which can lead to cybercrime susceptibility. This is a under researched field that can ultimately have massive implications given the ubiquity of social media usage. 

Digital tools/platforms/software: 

• NVivo
• Microsoft Forms

• French sociolinguistics
• Language standardisation
• Language and identity
• Language revitalisation and new speakers
• Lexicon and lexicography
• Orthography

My current interests are in the sociolinguistics of minoritised languages, and particularly in new speakers of these languages: why speakers decide to become a member of minoritised linguistic communities; how they use the language in ways that balance concerns around communication and the expression of individual and group identity; and what forms the language can take as a result of being used in new ways and new domains. I have mostly worked on the “southern Brythonic” members of the Celtic family of languages, Breton and Cornish.

My digital interests are in:

• Language in new media

I am especially interested in how language is used differently across different media contexts, and in how the internet is harnessed for the purposes of language standardisation and change, both in its function as a vehicle for communicating top-down corpus planning decisions and in its use by speakers who may be geographically diffuse and motivated by diverse backgrounds and aims. I am interested in, and concerned by, the important role social media contexts play in the development of marginalised linguistic communities, and the fragility of this system when it relies on the continued goodwill of global corporations whose primary motivation is financial gain.

Digital tools/platforms/software: 

• Python
• XML
• Git
• wget
• LaTeX

Research fields:

• AI ethics
• AI fairness
• Responsible AI

My research interests are primarily located within AI ethics, with a focus on fairness in AI. I am interested in understanding the social implications of unfair AI algorithms, and understanding the nuances of how the unfairness is encoded explicitly or implicitly within such algorithms. These range from domains such as news recommenders, crime surveillance, hiring fairness and unfair AI within the gig-economy. My research focuses on how to build fair and responsible AI algorithms to mitigate the risks and dangers of unfair AI, especially in domains where AI is used to make decisions affecting humans and societies substantively. In my research, I strive to identify and use best-of-breed and fit-for-purpose philosophical principles to be embedded in meaningful ways within AI algorithms.