Dr Karina Rodriguez Echavarria

READER, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

Karina is an interdisciplinary researcher, with a background in Computer Science, a PhD in knowledge-based engineering and an MA in Histories and Cultures. Her research interests include the development and application of computing technologies for the digitisation of objects and environments; the information management, analysis, search/browse visualisation of visual representations, including 2D and 3D content; as well as their physical reproduction using digital fabrication. A focus of the research is the Cultural Heritage (CH) sector and its related applications such as creative applications, art, culture, education and tourism. She has produced research outputs in interdisciplinary areas such as computer graphics, information and knowledge management as well as cultural heritage. She co-leads the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Research Excellence Group which focuses on both theoretical and practical research in computer science challenges related to software systems, leading on the provision of digitisation and visualisation technologies. She is the Editor-in-Chief of the ACM Journal of Computing and Cultural Heritage, and chairs the Eurographics Workshops Board and the Eurographics Steering Committee on Graphics and Cultural Heritage which organises yearly workshops in this area.

Dr Eamonn Bell

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, DURHAM UNIVERSITY

Eamonn Bell is Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Durham University. He has an interdisciplinary background in music and applied computer science, and his research falls under the broad umbrella of the digital humanities. His research interests include the application of mathematical and contemporary computational techniques to solve problems in musicology, music theory, and the humanities; the history of the computational sciences and digital technology, particularly as it relates to musical production and consumption in the second half of the twentieth century; and interdisciplinary approaches to lowering barriers to accessing digital research infrastructure (DRI) supporting computationally intensive research by non-specialists. Since 2019, his research has been funded by UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), the Irish Research Council, and a number of smaller institutional grants. Most recently, he has been involved in the design and delivery of several DRI projects serving UK-based arts, humanities, and culture researchers. These initiatives include Toward a Collaborative Computational Project (CCP) for Arts, Humanities, and Culture Researchers (CCP-AHC) (as Project Lead), Accelerating Digital Skills for Music Researchers (as Project Lead, funded initially as Accelerating embedded computational analysis of Web data about music in UK universities), and DISKAH.

Professor Leif Isaksen

PROFESSOR OF ANCIENT HISTORY AND DIGITAL HUMANITIES, UNIVERSITY OF EXETER

Dr Leif Isaksen is a Professor of Ancient History and Digital Humanities, and a member of the Department of Classics, Ancient History, Religion and Theology. He is also Theme Lead for Humanities, Heritage and the Creative Industries at the Institute of Data Science and AI (IDSAI).

His main interests are in spatial and temporal representation in the humanities – both in the ancient world and the modern one – and the use of Intelligent Systems to relate and interrogate online resources about the past. This is most notably as director of several projects associated with the Pelagios Network, including the development of the Recogito annotation platform. Leif has a background in archaeology, and in recent years he directed the Cluny Hill Dig.

He has been involved with a number of Humanities and Digital Humanities activities and organisations worldwide, including CAA, EADH and ISHMap, and was Executive Board Chair of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organisations (ADHO) from 2019 to 2021. He is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and former Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute.

Dr Zoetanya Sujon

READER, UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS LONDON

Dr Zoetanya Sujon is Reader in Communications and Social Technologies at the University of the Arts London. Dr Sujon is the UK’s Key Regional Leader of the TikTok Research Cultures Network, based in Curtin University and the Asia Pacific region, co-director of the Digital Cultures and Economies Research Hub at London College of Communications and is the author of ‘The Social Media Age’ (2021). Dr Sujon is also Programme Chair for the International Conference on Social Media and Society, which next runs in 2026. From 2023-2024, Zoetanya lead the AHRC funded project ‘Transforming the Gap: Inclusive Digital Arts and Humanities Research Skills (DAReS)’ as Principal Investigator working with Wikimedia UK and CRAC/Vitae as partners (AHRC Reference: AH/X007510/1). Taking a co-design approach with under-represented and marginalised arts and humanities, DAReS developed an inclusive approach to data skills and aimed to maximize digital research innovation in the UK and is part of the UKRI’s digital research infrastructures initiative. Dr Sujon is widely published, including in journals such as New Media and Society, International Journal of Communicaiton, and Social Media + Society. Dr Sujon focuses on interdisciplinary research broadly addressing the relationships between social technologies, power, and everyday life.

Dr Myrsini Samaroudi

RESEARCH FELLOW, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON

Dr Myrsini Samaroudi has a background in archaeology and digital humanities, holds a PhD from the School of Architecture, Technology and Engineering of the University of Brighton and is a member of the Computing and Mathematical Sciences Research Excellence Group of the same university. Myrsini has worked as an archaeologist and as an interdisciplinary digital humanities researcher both in academia and industry. Her PhD, held in collaboration with the Royal Pavilion & Museums Trust, examined digitally fabricated replicas of museum artefacts as interpretative “devices” and proposed a framework for their integration and evaluation within experiences for different audience groups.

Over the last few years, Myrsini has worked on various research projects, investigating creative and technology-facilitated methods to improve children’s wellbeing; the impact of Covid-19 on heritage institutions; the use of 3D printed replicas and digital 3D-games to enhance museum interpretation; digital technologies for documenting and accessing intangible heritage knowledge; and more recently the requirements of the Arts and Humanities research community in the UK with respect to infrastructure as well as digital skills to effectively manage complex visual data for research.