Present Appointment
October 2011– Senior LecturerPrincipal Investigator and Director of 'Digital Resource and Database of Palaeography, Manuscripts and Diplomatic' <http://digipal.eu/> Department of Digital Humanities, King's College London, London, U.K.
Research
- Awarded Starting Grant from European Research Council (FP7) to lead new four-year project on computing and palaeographical method.
- Designing and deveoping a new web resource to allow the exploration and citation of medieval script in the context of the manuscripts and charters that preserve it.
- Designing, developing and populating a new database for the vernacular script of late Anglo-Saxon England in the vernacular.
- Developing new visual and verbal methods for the exploration and presentation of palaeographical data.
Teaching
- Coordinating two MA modules ('Digital Resources for Historical Studies' and 'Material Culture of the Book').
- Additional teaching in palaeography and book history for Cambridge University and the Institute of English Studies in the University of London.
- Supervising MA and PhD students.
- See Teaching Experience for further details.
Administration
- Director of the DigiPal project with total budget of approx. €1M.
- Member of the Departmental Teaching Committee.
- Principal Coordinator of 'Medieval Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age' (MMSDA).
- Member of several project boards and committees in the UK and Europe (see Offices and Consultancies for further details).
- Chair of Department's Staff Student Liaison Committee (SSLC, from 2012); carried out substantial review and revision of SSLC Terms of Reference (in 2012)
- Deputy Chair of Department's Postgraduate Board of Examiners, 2012–
- Member, Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) Peer Review College, 'Academic' and 'International' categories, 2012–2015.