CV – November 2024 – Stuart Dunn

Personal details

Work email: stuart.dunn@kcl.ac.uk

Personal email: stuart.e.dunn@gmail.com

Work phone: +44 20 7848 2709

Mobile: please enquire if needed

Citizenship: British Citizen

Education

1998-2002 PhD in Aegean Bronze Age Archaeology, University of Durham. Thesis title: The Chronology of the Aegean Late Bronze Age with Special Reference to the ‘Minoan’ Eruption of Thera.
1995-1998: BA (2:1 Hons) Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Durham

Present appointment:

King’s College London, 2006 – present.

2024 – present: Head of the Humanities Cluster, Faculty of Arts and Humanities

Accountable to Executive Dean for the strategic and operational running of the Departments of History, Classics, Philosophy and Theology and Religious Studies. Overall responsibility for c. 2300 students, 250 staff and a budget of £10m <. Duties involve setting and harmonizing budgets, determining student targets, determining staffing needs and making the case for new/replacement roles at all levels, being accountable for the Cluster’s financial performance and contribution to the Faculty, line management of Heads of Department, and provision of a good working environment across all the departments.

Previous appointments:

2019-2023: Head of the Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London

Accountable to Head of Custer for management of the Department of Digital Humanities. Increased staffing from 30 to 55 FTE members of staff; grew Professoriate from 2 to 6 (including 50:50 gender parity); described as a “beacon of excellence” in 2023 teaching review. Responsible for line managing all academic staff, disposition of the department non-pay budget, development of departmental strategy and management structures, and liaising with a range of external stakeholders.

2018 – 2019: Deputy Head of the Department of Digital Humanities
2020: Reader in Spatial Humanities
2017: 2020 Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities
2012 – 2017: Lecturer (B), Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London
2006–12: Research Fellow, Centre for e-Research, King’s College London
2003-06: Research Assistant, AHRC ICT in Arts and Humanities Research Programme, University of Reading
1998-9: College Tutor, Trevelyan College, University of Durham

Further leadership and management:

2016-2018: Chair, Arts and Humanities Faculty Assessment Board (Undergraduate)

Overall responsibility for the examination and assessment processes, administration, academic discipline and appeals of all the Faculty’s undergraduate programmes, involving the assessment of some 3000 students.

2015 – Acting Chair, Arts and Humanities Faculty Assessment Board (Postgraduate Taught)

Overall responsibility for the examination and assessment processes of the Faculty’s Masters programmes, involving the assessment of just under 1000 students.

2011 – 2015: Chair, Department of Digital Humanities Postgraduate Programme Sub-Assessment Board.
2013 – 2014 Admissions Tutor, MA in Digital Humanities

As Admissions Tutor, I promoted my pedagogical vision of Digital Humanities as a blend of theory and practice; seeking particularly to address the historic perception in the community that DDH is a Department of world leading research projects, rather than a centre of teaching excellence. By doing so, I oversaw a 60% rise in enrolments.

External and visiting appointments

2022-present: PhD Programme Course Teacher, Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca
Guest Professor, Riga Technical University, Latvia (2021- present)
Foreign Expert, Digital Publishing and Digital Humanities Research Center, Beijing Normal University, Zhuhai (2020)
Visiting Scholar, Centre for Digital Humanities, Australian National University (2020 – 2022)
Visiting Scholar, Center for Electronic Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University (October 2014)
- 2007 – 2009: Visiting Research Fellow, Department of Archaeology, University of Reading

Grant capture

Name of project	Name of awarding body	Value of award	Names of all grant holders (PI in bold)	Start date	End date	Notes
Spatial Humanities at King’s	Dept of Culture, Media and Creative Industries	£500	Tamsyn Dent, Stuart Dunn	February 2021	July 2021	This was a small scoping project to outline a larger bid to bring together different strands of the Spatial Humanities at King’s
We are the Map	King’s Cultural Institute	£2,000	Stuart Dunn, Jeremy Wood	February 2021	August 2021	This was a “R&D” phase of activity to establish Wood as an Artist in Residence at DDH. King’s Cultural reformatted the scheme from supporting “full” projects as a result of Covid-19.
Mapping Creativity	Dept of Culture, Media and Creative Industries	£2,000	Tamsyn Dent, Stuart Dunn	February 2021	July 2021
Curating Expertise	Dept of Digital Humaniti es/ Dept of Culture, Media and Creative Industries	£5,000	Stuart Dunn, Serena Iervolino	March 2020	July 2020
Ancient Itineraries: The Digital Lives of Art History	Getty Foundation	£162,000	Stuart Dunn, Graeme Earl, Will Wootton, Anna Foka	February 2018	December 2020	I obtained the grant through negotiation with the Getty Foundation, formed the Co-I team, and led the project throughout.
Reframing Art: Opening up art dealers’ archives to multi- disciplinary research	King’s Cultural Institute	£5000	Stuart Dunn, Alan Crookham	1^st July 2017	30th December 2019	I negotiated the grant with the King’s Cultural Institute and acted as Academic Lead. I also supervised the work of the PhD student on the project.
Atlantic Europe in the Metal Ages	AHRC	£573,977	Stuart Dunn (Co-I for King’s)	1^st April 2013	31^st March 2016	Project led by the University of Wales, I led for King’s
Hertiage Gazetteer of Cyprus	A. G. Leventis Foundation	£39,326	Charlotte Roueche, Stuart Dunn, Tassos Papacostas	1^st September 2012	31^st December 2014	I led the project for DDH.
Crowdsourcing Scoping Study	AHRC	£29,917	Mark Hedges, Stuart Dunn	01/02/20 12	31/10/2 012	I project managed this grant,and did the substantial amount of the work.
Data Service Infrastructure for the Social Sciences and Humanities	Framewo rk Program me 7	£187,019	Tobias Blanke, Stuart Dunn	1^st January 2012	31^st December 2014	Although I was not the KCL grant holder (who was not involved), I managed the work, a technical task involving the coordination of an international team of software developers, and was formally line manager of the research assistant who worked on the project.
Motion in Place Platform	AHRC	£481,177	Kirk Woolford, Mark Hedges (Co-I for King’s) Stuart Dunn, Martin White, Helen Bailey	1^st March 2010	28^th February 2011	I led the project for DDH. At the time, I did not have a permanent academic contract, so was not able to be named as Co-Investigator. However I performed all the functions of Co-I.
TEXT.link	JISC	£23,215	Mark Hedges, Stuart Dunn	5^th September 2011	31^st January 2012	I conducted a requirements analysis for the project.
Embedding GeoCrossW alk	JISC	£84,954	Sheila Anderson, Stuart Dunn	1^st November 2009	1^st June 2009

External programme reviews conducted

2024: External panel member, BA (Hons) in Digital Cultures and Society, University College Cork
2023: External reviewer, External Reviewer (ER) for Master of Arts in Digital Humanities for Cultural Professionals (MADHCP), The Education University of Hong Kong.
2021-22: Member, International Advisory Team on Digital Humanities of the Faculty of Humanities, The Education University of Hong Kong.
2021: Chair, External Evaluation Committee assessing the Science and Technology in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage doctoral programme, Cyprus Institute, Nicosia.

Membership of Advisory Boards, Councils etc

2024 – Editorial Board Member, European Journal of Geography.
2024 – Member, Folklore Society Council.
2020 – Reference Committee Member, Centre for Digital Humanities, Uppsala University.
2020 – 2023. Advisory Board member, Encyclopedia.
2020-2023: Honorary Advisory Board Member, Center for Digital Humanities, Information Technology University, Lahore, Pakistan.
2020 – 2021: Engaging Crowds project advisory board. National Archives, London.
2013-2015: MicroPasts project Advisory Board
2007-: Pleiades Digital Gazetteer Project (New York University), member of Editorial Board and Technical Oversight Committee
2005-9: Silchester Roman Town VRE project (JISC project), University of Reading
2006-8: The Road to Manzikert (AHRC project), University of Birmingham

Advice to Tenure and Promotion Committees

2024: School of Art, Design and Media Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2023: College of Arts and Social Sciences, Centre for Australian National University
2022: Department of English, Stanford University.
2015: Department of English, University of California at Los Angeles.

Academic Publications

Books

Schuster, K. and Dunn, S. (2020): Handbook of Research Methods in Digital Humanities. Routledge Publishing, London.
Dunn, S. (2019): A History of Place in the Digital Age. Routledge Publishing, 2019. London.
Dunn, S. and Hedges, M. (2017): Academic Crowdsourcing in the Humanities: Crowds, Communities and Co-Production. Chandos Information Professional Series 2018. Oxford.

Journal articles

- Goldschmidt Kiminami, C. A. and Dunn, S., 2024. London’s Strand: From Pedestrianisation to Humanisation European Journal of Geography, November, s18-s29. [Open access]. https://doi.org/10.48088/ejg.si.spat.hum.c.kim.18.29.
- Dunn, S., 2024. Walking the Whinny-Moor: Corpse roads and pre-funeral death rituals in early modern England. Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology), 34(2), pp.107-118. [Open access].
- Dunn, S and Vitale, V. (2021): Linking text and maps: annotation as a critical tool for teaching in the Spatial Humanities. Literary Geographies 7.2 (2021): 292-310. [Open access].
- Dunn, S., 2020. Folklore in the landscape: the case of corpse paths. Time and mind, 13(3), pp.245-265.
- Crookham, A. & Dunn, S. (2019): Reframing art: Opening up art dealers’ archives to multi-disciplinary research. Visual Resources. An International Journal of Documentation.
- Dunn, S. (2017): Praxes of “The Human” and “The Digital”: The spatial humanities and the digitization of place. GeoHumanities 3(1), 88–107. DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2016.1245107
- Dunn, S.: “Archaeology”. In Schintler, L. A. and McNeely, C. L. (eds), Sage Encyclopaedia of Big Data.
- Dunn, S. and Höckendorff, M. K. (2016): Explaining Events to Computers: Critical Quantification, Multiplicity and Narratives in Cultural Heritage. Digital Humanities Quarterly 10, issue 3. [Open access].
- Dunn, S. (2015): Mapping the past on the web. Sheetlines, Journal of the Charles Close Society, 104 (December 2015): 51-55.
- Thatcher, J. , Bergmann, L. , Ricker, B. , Rose-Redwood, R. , O’Sullivan, D. , Barnes, T. J. , Barnesmoore, L. R. , Beltz Imaoka, L. , Burns, R. , Cinnamon, J. , Dalton, C. M. , Davis, C. , Dunn, S. , Harvey, F. , Jung, J. K. , Kersten, E. , Knigge, L. D. , Lally, N. , Lin, W. , Mahmoudi, D. & 9 others (2015): Revisiting Critical GIS. Environment and Planning A. 48, 5: 815-824.
- Woolford, K. & Dunn, S. (2013): Experimental Archaeology and Games: Challenges of Inhabiting Virtual Heritage. In ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage 6: 4: 1-15.
- Dunn, S., Kadish, L. & Pasquier, M. (2013): A religious center with a civic circumference: towards the concept of a Deep Map of American religion. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. 7, 1-2, pages 190-200.
- Dunn, S. & Hedges, M. (2013): Crowd-sourcing as a Component of Humanities Research Infrastructures. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing 7, 1-2, pages 147-169.
- Asciutti, V. & Dunn, S. (2013): Connecting the Classics: A case study of Collective Intelligence in Classical Studies. In The Digital Classicist 2013. S. Dunn, S. and S. Mahony (eds), Special Issue of the Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, vol. 122, pages 147-160.
- Dunn, S. (2011): Introduction to Special Section on Digital Objects: digital objects, digital humanities-Questions, Processes, and Outputs. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 26.2, pages: 189 – 192.
- Anderson, S., Blanke, T. and Dunn, S. 2010: Methodological commons: arts and humanities e-Science fundamentals. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES. 368, 1925: 3779 – 3796.
- Grover, C., Tobin, R., Byrne, K., Woollard, M., Reid, J., Dunn, S. & Ball, J. 2010: Use of the Edinburgh geoparser for georeferencing digitized historical collections. PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY OF LONDON SERIES A MATHEMATICAL PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES. 368, 1925: 3875 – 3889.
- Dunn, S. (2009): Dealing with the complexity deluge: VREs in the arts and humanities. LIBRARY HI TECH. 27. 2: 205 – 216.
- Dunn, S. (2002): The Theran eruption: towards an interdisciplinary approach to scientific dating methods. Journal of the Ancient Chronology Forum 9: 22-31

iii. Contributions to Books

Dunn, S. (In press): Spatial Narrative. A Techno-Cultural History. Oxford Handbook of Spatial Humanities.
Dunn, S. (In press): Engraving the soil: the challenges of defining spatial footprints in Cypriot cultural heritage. Tall edifices supported by strong foundations: open data in ancient and Byzantine studies.
Dunn, S. (2023): Concluding remarks. In Petrulevich, A. and Skovgaard Boeck, S. (eds). Digital Spatial Infrastructures in the Humanities. ARCHumanities Press. [Open access].
Dunn, S. (2023): Kinesthetic archaeologies: Digital methods and the reconstruction of movement. In Landeschi, G. & Betts, E. (eds), Capturing the Senses: Digital Methods for Sensory Archaeologies. Springer, (Quantitative Methods in the Humanities and Social Sciences).
Dunn, S., Earl, G. P., Wootton, W. T. and Foka, A. (2019): Spatial Narratives in Museums and Online: The Birth of the Digital Object Itinerary. In J. Bowen and T. Giannini (eds), Museums and Digital Culture: New Perspectives and Research, Springer Series on Cultural Computing. Springer: 253-271.
Dunn, S. and Hedges, M. (2018): From the wisdom of crowds to going viral: The creation and transmission of knowledge in the citizen humanities. In Herodotou, C., Sharples, M. and Scanlon, E. (eds), Citizen Inquiry. Routledge: 25-41.
Dunn, S. & Hedges, M. (2014): How the crowd can surprise us: Humanities crowdsourcing and the creation of knowledge. In M. Ridge (ed), Crowdsourcing our cultural heritage. Ashgate: 231-246.
Dunn, S. & Woolford, K. (2014): Micro mobilities and affordances of past places. In J. Leary (ed), Past Mobilities: Archaeological approaches to movement and mobility. Surrey, England: Ashgate: 113-128.
Dunn, S. & Woolford, K. (2013): Reconfiguring Experimental Archaeology using 3D Movement Reconstruction. J. P. Bowen, S. Keene, and K. Ng (eds), Electronic Visualisation in Arts and Culture. London: Springer Series on Cultural Computing, London: 277-291.
Dunn, S. (2011): Poor relatives or favorite uncles? Cyberinfrastructure and Web 2.0. A critical comparison for archaeological research. In E. Kansa, S. Whitcher Kansa, and E. Watrall (eds), Archaeology 2.0: new approaches to communication and collaboration. Los Angeles: Costen Institute of Archaeology Press: 95-117.
Dunn, S. 2010: Space as an Artefact: a perspective on ‘Neogeography’ from the digital humanities. In G. Bodard and S. Mahony (eds), Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity. Farnham: Ashgate Publishing: 53-69.

Non peer reviewed briefing papers and reports

Hedges, M. & Dunn, S. 2012: Crowd-Sourcing Scoping Study: Engaging the Crowd with Humanities Research. Arts and Humanities Research Council Connected Communities Report.
Dunn, S. 2006: ‘Virtual Research Environments’. Arts and Humanities e- Science Support Centre Briefing Paper
Dunn, S. 2006: ‘Geospatial Resources’. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Briefing Paper.
Dunn, S. 2006: ‘Access Grid’. Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre Briefing Paper.
2005 Dunn, S. and Dunning, A. AHRC Research Centres and the Use of ICT. AHDS/AHRC ICT programme report: http://bit.ly/1xhW5lU
Dunn, S. 2015: Review of Orbis. Journal of Digital Humanities, 2012 (invited website review).

Conference contributions

Imagining Atlantis: Challenging Pseudoarchaeology with Maps and Folklore. Folklore Society Conference, July 2023.
Walking the Whinny-Moor: Pre-funeral death rituals in early modern England. 16^th Congress of Société Internationale d’Ethnologie et de Folklore (SIEF), Brno, June 2023.
Bowen, J. P., Giannini, T., Polmeer, G., Falconer, R., Miller, A. and Dunn, S., 2020: Computational Culture and A.I.: Challenging human identity and curatorial practice. Electronic Visualization and the Arts London 2020. Paper available here.
Dunn S. 2018a: ‘The Eye of History’: Chorographic prologues and the origins of the Spatial Humanities. Spatial Humanities 2018. Lancaster University, 20th-21st September 2019.
Dunn, S. 2018b: Corpse Roads: Connecting archaeology, folklore and landscape. Working Life: Belief, Custom, Ritual, Narrative. Folklore Society conference, Museum of English Rural Life, Reading, 28th April 2018.
Dunn, S. 2017: Inscriptions engraved on the soil: Digital approaches to place in Cyprus. Digital Infrastructure for Named Entities Data, :Leipzig, January 27th 2017
Dunn, S. 2016: Place in Text: From Middle Earth to the Lake District. Electronic Visualization and the Arts pre-conference Symposium, London, 11th July 2014
Dunn, S. 2015: From Curated Space to Museum Space: Reflections on Crowdsourcing in Museums. MicoPasts conference, Royal Geographical Society, March 2015
Dunn, S., Papacostas, T., Roueché, C., Vitale, V. and Jakeman, N. 2014: Whither Neutrality? Crowdsourcing Geographic Knowledge in Regions of Conflict: The Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus. 9th International Workshop on Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage, Budapest, 4-5 September 2014.
Inscriptions engraved on the Soil: the Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus. Presentation to the Inaugural meeting of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations SIG on GeoHumanities, Digital Humanities 2013, Lausanne, July 2014.
Dunn, S. Hedges, M. and Blanke, T. 2013: Becoming Linked Data. Data, Process and Documentation. Proceedings of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Perth, Australia.
Dunn, S. An emerging field(?) Defining the fundamentals of humanities crowdsourcing. Digital Heritage 2013, Marseilles.
Dunn, S. and Woolford K. 2012 Motion data and augmented reality in the physical and virtual worlds. Electronic Visualization and the Arts, London, July 2012.
Dunn, S., Hedges, M., Jordanous, A. & Storz, C. 2012: Comparing the informatics of text and Cultural Heritage: the SAWS project. Proceedings of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Southampton, UK.
Blanke, T., Bodard, G., Bryant, M., Dunn, S., Hedges, M., Jackson, M. & Scott, D. 2012: Linked data for humanities research—The SPQR experiment: 6th IEEE International Conference on Digital Ecosystems Technologies (DEST): 1-6.
Hedges, M., Jordanous, A., Dunn, S., Roueche, C., Kuster, M. W., Selig, T., Bittorf, M. & Artes, W. 2012 : New models for collaborative textual scholarship. Digital Ecosystems Technologies (DEST), 2012 6th IEEE International Conference.
Tupman, C., Hedges, M., Jordanous, A., Roueche, C., Lawrence, K. F., Wakelnig, E. & Dunn, S. 2012: Sharing Ancient Wisdoms: developing structures for tracking cultural dynamics by linking moral and philosophical anthologies with their source and recipient texts. Digital Humanities 2013 Hamburg, Germany.
Blanke, T., Bodard, G., Dunn, S., Hedges, M., Jackson, M. & Rajbhandari, S. 2010: LaQuAT: Integrating and querying diverse digital resources in classical epigraphy. Making History Interactive. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA). Proceedings of the 37th International Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia. Frischer, B., Crawford, J. W. & Koller, D. (eds.). N/A ed. Oxford: Archaeopress, Vol. N/A: 29-35. (BAR international series; vol. 2079).
Blanke, T., Hedges, M. & Dunn, S. 2008: Grass-roots Research in Arts and Humanities e-Science in the UK. Proceedings of eResearch Australasia 2008.

Digital publications

Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus: http://www.cyprusgazetteer.org
Personal blog: http://stuartdunn.blog

Keynotes/Invited talks

National

A Journey Along Britain’s Corpse Roads. Invited talk at London Month of the Dead festival, October 2003.

Gliding in the Churchway Paths: Corpse Roads and the Origins of the Right to Roam. Folklore Society online talk, January 2023.
Research Outside the Ivory Tower: Crowdsourcing, the Humanities, and New Forms of Collaboration. Oxford TORCH Public Engagement in Research series.
Networks of Objects or Objects as Networks? Rethinking digital art history (again). Electronic Visualization and the Arts 2020, keynote, 16th November 2020 (delivered remotely). Video available here.
Place and the Internet from the Cold War to Covid. Lancaster University DH Hangout, I invited talk, 12th June 2020.
Digital Humanities: Themes of Sustainability. Royal College of Music Doctoral Plenary Training Day, 19th March 2020 (delivered remotely).
Corpse roads: Digital Landscape Archaeology. Gresham College Lecture, 12th March 2020.
In The Churchway Paths To Glide: Corpse Roads And Their Folklore. Public lecture at the Museum of English Rural Life, Reading. 30th October 2018.
Spatial Data, Spatial Humanities. Digimap for Digital Humanities: an event at King’s College London (event organized by the Edina Digimap service), 22nd March 2018.
Place in text: From Middle Earth to the Lake District. Electronic Visualization and the Arts pre-Conference seminar, 11th July 2016: http://www.eva-london.org/eva-london-2016/programme/pre-conference-symposium.
Reading text with GIS: Different digital lenses for Ancient World Geography. London Digital Classicist seminar, 24th June 2016: http://www.digitalclassicist.org/wip/wip2016-04sd.html.
Island Insularity and Connectivity: an interdisciplinary symposium on Cypriot island Identity in the Mediterranean from antiquity to the present day (University of Warwick)
Presentation to Doctoral Training workshop on Spatial Humanities, CHASE consortium, (University of Canterbury)
Keynote speaker: “What is Scholarly Editing”, AHRC Early Career Training programme, 3 separate workshops in London, Durham and Cardiff.
Monumental Mapping: GIS and Hadrian’s Wall. London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Volunteered Geographic Information. Finnish Cultural Institute, London.
Pushing the Boundaries: Early Career Researchers and Interdisciplinarity (British Academy and Open University)
Mapping and geospatial interfaces: and overview. Internal strategy seminar, King’s College London/Rwandan Genocide Memorial Trust.
Humanities crowdsourcing. Engaging the crowd with humanities research. Nottingham symposium on crowdsourcing (University of Nottingham).
Building Scholarly Resources for Wider Public Engagement (Oxford Internet Institute, April 2013). Keynote: Crowdsourcing: participatory digital research projects (CRASSH, Cambridge, June 2013).
Building Narratives in Spatial History: The Emergence of the Online Gazetteer in the Digital Humanities (University of Leicester).
Invited lecture: ‘Digital Ghosts’, Turing Edinburgh International Technology Festival (Edinburgh Fringe).
Invited lecture: Currencies of knowledge: how communities of humanists share data. Invited seminar (City University).
‘The Theran eruption: towards an interdisciplinary approach to scientific dating methods’. Vronwy Hankey Memorial Lecture, Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Sciences, London.

International

Digital Art History: The role of annotation. Institut für Germanistik, University of Hamburg, 3rd February 2021 (delivered remotely).
Realizing Digital Humanities. Talk to students at the Digital Humanities Research Center, ITMO University, St Petersburg, 23rd November 2020 (delivered remotely).
Measuring the invisible: digital tools and methods for the documentation of movement. Invited keynote at Digarv Online Workshop, University of Gothenburg, 6th November 2020 (delivered remotely).
Datafied landscapes: Exploring digital maps as (critical) heritage. Invited keynote at Critical Heritage Studies and the Future of Europe, Gothenburg, 15th October 2020 (delivered remotely).
Ancient Itineraries Exploring Digital Art History. Webinars on Digitalized Collections 2020. Europeana, 10th June 2020 (delivered remotely). Video available here.
Finding ourselves from Ptolemy to GPS: creating, exploring and communicating personal cartographies with technology. 2nd International Public Lecture in Digital Humanities, Australian National University, 27th February 2020.
Invited talk at symposium on Space, Place, People and Culture, Curtin University, Perth, 22nd February 2020.
Telling stories with GIS – from structured gazetteers to spatial narratives. Invited talk at Uppsala University Library, 5th June 2019. Video available here.
The Language of Maps: Translating and Teaching Spatial Literacy Across Cultures. Keynote talk, Meaning in Translation: Illusion of Precision, Riga Technical University, Latvia, 16th – 19th May 2018.
Of what are they a source? “The Crowd” as Authors, Observers and Meaning-Makers. Finding New Knowledge: Archival Records in the Age of Big Data. University of Maryland iSchool, 26-28 April 2016.
From carto-bibliography to description: Practices of citation from paper to digital mapping. International Cartographic Association (ICA) Digital Approaches to Cartographic Heritage conference, Riga, Latvia, 10-22 April 2016.
E-Philologie. Invited talk at École nationale des chartes, Sorbonne, Paris.
Invited lecture: From Someone Else’s Problem to Everybody’s Problem: A case of Software Sustainability in the Digital Humanities. HumLab, Umeå, Sweden.
Invited talk: ‘Points, Linces, cells, Polygons’: What Does ‘Data’ Mean to a Humanist? University of Berkeley Digital Humanities working group.
Invited talk: Personal Space: Narrative, Crowdsourcing, and the Production of Digital Geography. Center for Electronic Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University.
Invited talk: Movement in the Past: Archaeologies of Mobility and the Idea of the Spatial Narrative. Digital Humanities Center, University of California, Los Angeles.
Invited talk: Narratives of geography: towards a critical framework for landscape studies in a digital world. University of Washington.
‘Approaching Ancient Mobility through Motion Capture’ Frei Universitat Berlin TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Berlin. 2010 Invited talk: ‘Locating inscriptions: the archaeological associations of epigraphy’. Roman Libya: Epigraphy, Archaeology and Geography
Leverhulme conference, Tripoli, Libya, May 2010.
Wiring it all together: Spatial Data Infrastructures for archaeology. SDH workshop, Vienna (DARIAH).
Scholarly primitives in the Arts and Humanities. DARIAH workshop, Athens (DARIAH).
Invited keynote: ‘Beyond e-Science: Methodological Commons and Practical Applications for Advanced Computing in the Humanities’, Humanities, Arts and Science Technology Collaboratory (HASTAC) conference, April 2010, webcast keynote, hosted by University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Editing of Themed Journal Issues

Dunn, S. and Mahoney, S., 2013. The Digital Classicist 2013 (p. 181). University of London Press.
Dunn, S. (2011, ed.): Special Issue: Special Issue ‘Digital Objects’. Literary and Linguistic Computing. Volume 26 Issue 2 June 2011.
Dunn, S. and Blanke, T. (2009, eds.): Special Cluster: e-Science for the Arts and Humanities. Digital Humanities Quarterly. 2009 3.4.

Event Organization

Hosted Folklore Society Annual Conference at King’s College London, June 2024.
Citizen Humanities Comes of Age: Crowdsourcing for the Humanities in the 21st Century. Colloquium organized with Stanford University, King’s College London, September 2015.
Mapping Cypriot Heritage. Presentation of the Heritage Gazetteer of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus, December 2014.
The Representation of Multiplicity as a Means to Digital Empowerment (with Valeria Vitale and Mareike Katharina Höckendorff), pre-conference workshop at Digital Humanities 2014, Lausanne.
Two workshops on crowdsourcing for AHRC Crowdsourcing Scoping Study (April and September).
2009-2012 Convener, Centre for e-Research Seminar Series, King’s College London. Organizing fortnightly seminars on a range of topics.
Geospatial computing for the arts, humanities and cultural heritage. IEEE 5th
IEEE International Conference on e-Science, Oxford, 9th-11th November 2009.
2009-2010 Arts and Humanities e-Science Support Centre workshops. Organized three workshops (funded by JISC) on the themes of motion capture, text analysis and digital mapping.
2008-2010 Co-Organizer, Arts and Humanities e-Science Theme, University of Edinburgh. Organized a range of workshops and focus groups bringing together researchers in the humanities and computer sciences.
2006- Co-Organizer, Digital Classicist Seminar Series, King’s College London, University College London and Institute of Classical Studies: http://www.digitalclassicist.org. A series of weekly summer seminars for students and Early Career Researchers to present work in progress in digital studies and the Ancient World.

PhD Supervision – completed

Han Bao (2016-2024). An Investigation of Online Activism Through Emotional Mobilisation on Social Media Such as Weibo and WeChat.
Cristina Kiminami (2018-2022). Spatial Perception Mediated By Locative Media: Walking Through Connections In London
Valentina Vavassori (2017-2020). Digital narratives in physical museums. Narrative construction with contextual technologies. The Di Casa in Casa Chatbot and the Museum of Augmented Urban Art in Milan.
2012-2016 Valeria Vitale (2012-2016). Rethinking 3D Digital Visualisation: From Photorealistic Visual Aid To Multivocal Environment To Study And Communicate Cultural Heritage
Federico Ugolini (2011-2014, second supervisor). Thesis title: Roman Ports in the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea: Form, Role and Representation
Georgina Guy (2010-2013, second supervisor). Thesis title: Displayed & Performed: Visitation, Exhibition and Arrested Attention

External Examination

2023: University College Cork; University of the Arts London
2022: University of Gothenburg
2019: University of East Anglia
2016-2019 External Examiner, MA Digital Humanities Programme, University College Cork
2015: External Examiner for PhD thesis in Digital Archaeology, Trinity College Dublin.
2015: External Examiner for MPhil in Archaeology, University of Southampton
2014: Member, Awarding Jury for Thibault Clérice for Mémoire pour le diplôme de master « Technologies numériques appliquées à l’histoire », Sens et oitils numériques en latin, École nationale des chartes, Sorbonne, Paris

Research Excellence Framework, 2014

Returned to the 2014 REF in a joint submission of the Department of Digital Humanities and Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, which was sub ranked first nationally according to the research ‘power’ metric under the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies, Library and Information Management unit of assessment.

RAE/REF 2008

Returned to the 2008 RAE by King’s College London, in the Library and Information Management unit; and thus contributed to the then-Centre for Computing in the Humanities being ranked as ‘world class’. Returned to the REF in 2014 and 2021.

External Consultancy

2013-2014 Tutor, Course 108, ‘Digital Mapping and Geo-Data’, internal staff training programme, British Library.

Teaching

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (FHEA), awarded 12th July 2017
Nominated for Teaching Excellence Award, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, King’s College London, 2023, 2018, 2017 and 2018

Modules taught:

Convener, 7AAVMAPS, ‘Maps, Apps and the GeoWeb: An Introduction to Spatial Humanities’ and 7AAVMARC, ‘Communication and Consumption of Cultural Heritage’ MA modules in Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London; 4AAVC103, ‘History of Network Technologies’, BA in Digital Culture, King’s College London, 2013-2016
Annual guest lecturer, ‘Electronic Publishing’, MA in Information Studies, University College London
2013-2014 Guest lecturer on 6AACAR13 Frontiers of the Roman Empire, a third year undergraduate module taken by students in the Department of Classics.
1998-2019 Course tutor and lecturer, ‘Minoans and Mycenaeans’ and ‘Art and Myth of Ancient Greece’, BA programme, Department of Classics, University of Durham.

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