Barbara McGillivray
King's College London
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, GB
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Barbara McGillivray is Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation in the Department of Digital Humanities of King’s College, where she leads the Computational Humanities research group. She is Editor in Chief of the Journal of Open Humanities Data and convenor of the MA programme in Digital Humanities at King’s, as well as convenor of the Turing special interest group “Humanities and data science”. Her research focusses on computational methods for the study of language change in both historical languages and contemporary data. As a Turing research fellow at the University of Cambridge and at The Alan Turing Institute she was also co-Investigator of the Living with machine project. Previously she worked as a language technologist in the Dictionaries division of Oxford University Press and as a data scientist in the Open Research Group of Springer Nature. Her most recent book is “Applying Language Technology in Humanities Research. Design, Application, and the Underlying Logic“ (Palgrave Macmillan 2020).