DHRC members

Membership is open to all staff and students in the University of Galway. We encourage everyone with an interest in DH to join. To do so, please contact the Director.

We welcome enquiries from researchers interested in starting new projects at the University of Galway. You can contact the Director or any of our members whose research area aligns well with yours.

Steering Committee 

Director:
Prof. Pádraic Moran (Classics)

Interests: digital editions, online databases, network graphs, knowledge graphs, Linked Data, NLP.
Links:
pmoran.ie, GLOSSAM project

Digital Humanities Manager:
Mr David Kelly

Seminars and Events:
Prof. Erin McCarthy
(English)
Link: STEMMA project

Liaison:
Prof. Marie-Louise Coolahan
(English)
Link: RECIRC project

Communications and Postdoc Representative:
Dr Raluca Tanasescu
(PIETRA)

Officer:
Prof. David O’Shaughnessy
(English)
Link: Theatronomics project

PhD Representative
(to be appointed)
 

Academic staff

Dr Aidan Kane (JE Cairnes School of Business and Economics)
Interests: Irish economic history, geospatial data, machine learning, maritime economic history.

Dr John McCrae (Data Science Institute/School of Computer Science)
Interests: lexicography, multilingualism, under-resourced languages, Irish language, computational linguistics.
Links: john.mccr.ae, ELEXIS

Prof. Anne O’Connor (Italian)
Co-director of the Emily Anderson Centre for Translation Research and Practice
Link: PIETRA project

Dr Colm Ó Cuaig (Gaeilge)
Interests: digital lexicography, digital editions, text encoding, NLP.
Links: Foclóir Mháirtín Uí Chadhain

Dr Liam Ó hAisibéil (Gaeilge)
Interests: distribution maps, databases, data visualisation, textual and linguistic analysis, digitisation and editing (for scholarly/critical editions).

Dr Lindsay Reid (English)
Interests: open educational resources, digital scholarly editing.
Links: REBPAF, The Constant Maid.


Postdoctoral researchers

Dr Christian Schweizer (Classics)
Interests: digital critical editions, manuscript databases.
Link: Dicuil, Epistula Censuum


Doctoral researchers

Anna Beatriz Dimas Furtado (PIETRA)
Interests: linguistic data analytics, multilingual institutional data, computational humanities, natural language processing.

Brenda Luies (REBPAF)
Interests: digital scholarly editing, digital editions, open educational resources.