Email
Digital Humanities Lab
Queen's Building
University of Exeter
EX4 4QH
The Digital Humanities Team
The College recognises the importance of embedding digital methods in the broad spectrum of our research, and has a dedicated team to enable this. The focus of their work is guided by the Digital Strategy.
We encompass new methods as they are developed, often deploying technological advances in science and engineering, and strive to contribute knowledge and best practice back to the global Digital Humanities community.
Leif Isaksen
Leif’s research interests lie in two distant but related fields: the development of geographic thought and representation in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and the emerging role of the Web as a transformational medium for communicating and connecting complex information. For the former he has undertaken theoretical and digital analyses of specific documents from ancient world; in the latter he applies Web-based (and Linked Open Data) technologies to annotate, connect and revisualize geographic aspects of the past through its textual and material culture, most notably as Director of the Pelagios Commons.
Gary Stringer
Gary has particular interests in the production of digital critical editions, digitisation workflows and the preservation of digital resources. He is a strong advocate of standards such as TEI and XML, and has expertise in digital copyright and Open Source software development.
Charlotte Tupman
Charlotte is a Senior Research Fellow in Digital Humanities specialising in Latin epigraphy and the application of digital technologies to the study of ancient texts. As one of the authors of the EpiDoc Guidelines she is involved in the collaborative development of international standards for the encoding and publication of inscriptions and papyri. She is currently Co-Investigator of the AHRC/DFG-funded research project Connecting Late Antiquities.
Lizzy Williamson
Lizzy’s Digital Humanities work is centred on digital publication and text encoding as editorial practice. She is keenly interested in the practical and theoretical concerns of the digital humanities, especially the place of the digital when considering the materiality and provenance of texts. She has extensive experience in project management and digital resource creation, and supports existing projects and future bid development.
Graham Fereday
Graham is a member of the Research IT team, part of Exeter IT, but based in Digital Humanities. His work is centred around 2D and 3D digitisation, working with specialist high-resolution cameras to photograph manuscripts and other material required for research activity in the college, and producing 3D models of objects and artefacts, primarily through photogrammetry. He also provides technical support for the various equipment in the Digital Humanities Lab, including our 3D printers and nine-screen videowall.
Richard Holding
Richard creates web resources for Digital Humanities research projects. His skills include the development of custom mapping solutions using the Leaflet JavaScript library, the creation of websites for managing and displaying digital collections using Omeka and eXist-db, and the design of websites and blogs in WordPress. Richard also advises academics and professional services staff on Digital Humanities aspects of bid writing for funders including the AHRC, identifying appropriate technologies and contributing details of development requirements for Data Management Plans.
Ian Wellaway
Ian is a computer programmer for the Research IT team and based in the Digital Humanities office. He provides programming support to a variety of research projects across the University from maritime history to astrophysics and is currently working on several Digital Humanities projects. He specialises in programming with ReactJS and Python/Django, database development and cloud computing.
Julia Hopkin
Julia is a member of the Library team, based in Digital Humanities. Her role as Data Support Officer involves supporting research and digitisation projects with digital archiving, data management, web development, and text encoding. With her background in multi-disciplinary archaeological research, Julia is particularly interested in imaging objects using RTI and photogrammetry, and making collections available to wider audiences through inclusive and sustainable online platforms.
Gemma Poulton
Gemma is the Technical Manager of the Digital Humanities Lab and works to support students and colleagues in developing technical skills to facilitate the application of Digital Humanities technologies in research.
Gudrun Bennett
Gudrun graduated from Exeter in 2023 after studying BA Sociology and Anthropology. As technical assistant she supports the digitisation of projects and the day to day running of the lab. Her interest in digital humanities stems from her undergraduate dissertation where she recorded oral history interviews and combined this with digital photography to conduct her own ethnographic research. She is interested in the transformative potential of digital humanities to preserve the histories of different communities and is keen to incorporate a range of digital technologies to help make cultural heritage more accessible.
Erato Kartaki
Erato is working as Research Fellow in Digital Skills at the Hot Source! program of Digital Humanities Lab, training educators and researchers from Arts and Humanities regarding 2D, 2.5 D and 3D visualisation. With a background in Conservation of Cultural Heritage and Cultural Informatics, her interests include digital visualisation, digital restoration and the use of additive manufacturing technologies for cultural heritage purposes.
Adrián Oyaneder
Adrián is an archaeologist with a research interest in South American archaeology, particularly Andean. He has conducted extensive fieldwork in northern Chile, and his research has focused on the use of geomatics and various technologies to study and digitise archaeological heritage. He is particularly interested in working with indigenous and local communities to develop collaborative research projects.
Sarwat Qureshi
.jpg)
Sarwat is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Digital Skills at the Hot Source! Project of Digital Humanities Lab. Her research interests lie at the intersection of English Linguistics, machine learning, mental health, and natural language processing (NLP). She uses text analysis to extract insights from textual data and teaches Arts and Humanities researchers efficient text extraction and analysis using programming languages. Sarwat aims to advance text analysis methodologies and promote a deeper understanding of the relationship between language, technology, and the humanities.