Giles Bergel

Giles Bergel is Senior Researcher in Digital Humanities in the Department of Engineering Science. His personal research is primarily in the history of books and printing, while he also manages a humanities research engagement programme in Visual AI on behalf of Oxford’s Visual Geometry Group, a leading reseach group in computer vision and machine learning. He has particular interests in the digitisation of cheap printed multimedia formats such as broadside ballads and illustrated chapbooks, and in the study of their images, tunes, texts and audiences. He oversaw the development of Bodleian Ballads Online, worked at the English Broadside Ballad Archive, and has an ongoing project to digitise The Wandering Jew’s Chronicle. He recently served as the inagural National Librarian of Scotland’s Fellow in Digital Scholarship, working on a project on chapbooks and is the co-editor of Stationers’ Register Online. He regularly teaches at the Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School and London Rare Books School and in the Department of Information Studies in University College London.

The Digital Humanities and Sensory Heritage Network has been awarded for two years (Hilary Term 2022 - Hilary Term 2024).