Manager, Edinburgh Centre for Data, Culture & Society (Jan 2019 – Present): Leading a strategic initiative of the College of Arts Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Edinburgh, designed to support capacity building in applied computational research.

Lead Digital Research Services Facilitator (June 2018 – Dec 2019): Bootstrapping a new team and function within Information Services, University of Edinburgh.

Project & Service Manager (Dec 2014 – May 2018): Working at EDINA, a national data centre and centre for digital excellence.

Researcher Fellow & Lecturer (March 2013 – Nov 2014): School for Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh.

AHRC Early Career Research Fellow (March 2012 – March 2013): Poetry, Politics and Print,  Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh.

AHRC Research Associate & Teaching Fellow (March 2009 – March 2012) University of Dundee.

 Co–Director: Scottish Universities’ International Summer School (Apr 2008 – March 2009)

Professional Qualifications

July 2021 AGILE PM Foundation Certificate

Sep 2017 Python for Digital Humanities, Texas A&M University, online

June 2016 ITIL Foundation Certificate

Research Awards

2013/14  Royal Scottish Academy Workshop Grant: Scotland’s National Collections and the Digital Humanities. Co-authored with Prof. James Loxley, in collaboration with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

2012/13 AHRC Early Career Fellowship: Poetry, Politics and Print in partnership with the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art.

2012 Alfred W. and Blanche Knopf Visiting Fellowship, Harry Ransom Centre, University of Texas.

2010 Co-authored AHRC follow-on funding, The Archive of Reading in partnership with the Scottish Poetry Library.

2007 Grant for Postgraduate Journal Editorial Training, University of Edinburgh Development Fund

2004–08 Doctoral Scholarship, College of Humanities and Social Science University of Edinburgh

Memberships

Association of Research Managers and Administrators, Member

Higher Education Academy, Associate