People
SHL Digital is an inclusive, transparent, and community driven collective. It is led by a team of four Co-Directors and a Programme Manager, and constituted by an interdisciplinary body of researchers from different parts of the university, the SHL Digital Fellows. It is supported by a dedicated Specialist Technician and Administration Officer.
Membership is open to all Sussex researchers with an interest in SHL Digital research remit.
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- SHL Digital Fellows
Prof Kate Howland
SHL Digital Co-Director & Professor of Interaction Design (EngInf)SHL Digital Co-Director & Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities (MAH)
Dr Judith Townend
SHL Digital Co-Director Senior Lecturer in Media and Information Law (LPS)Dr Sharon Webb
SHL Digital Co-Director & Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities (MAH)Dr Colin Ashby
Research Fellow Informatics (EngInf)Kevin Bacon
Collections Senior Manager (Library)Dr Cecile Chevalier
Senior Lecturer in Media Practice (MAH)Andrew Duff
Assistant Professor in Digital Media (MAH)Professor Alice Eldridge
Professor of Sonic Systems (MAH)Dr Beatrice Fazi
Reader in Digital Humanities (MAH)Dr Hannah Field
Associate Professor in Victorian Literature (MAH)Dr Irene Fubara-Manuel
Associate Professor in Digital Media Practice (Media and Film) (MAH)Dr Nimi Hoffman
Associate Professor in International Education and Development (ESW)Dr Tanya Kant
Associate Professor in Media and Cultural Studies (MAH)Dr Chris Kiefer
Reader in Musical Instrument Design (MAH)Dr Sam Ladkin
Senior Lecturer in Creative and Critical Writing - English (MAH)Bethany Logan
Associate Director LibraryKate Marrison
Research Fellow in the Weidenfeld Institute & SHL Digital (MAH)Andrew Martelloni
Research Fellow in Music (MAH)Professor Thor Magnusson
Professor of Future Music (MAH)Paul Mcconnell
Associate Professor in Media Practice (MAH)Dr Avey Nelson
Research Fellow in Media & Film (MAH)Dr Ben Pelling
Research Fellow in in Digital Humanities annd Holocaust Memory (MAH)Professor Victoria Grace Richardson-Walden
Professor of Digital Memory, Heritage, and Culture (MAH)Dr Justyna Robinson
Reader in English Language and Linguistics (MAH)Lucy Sabin
Doctoral Tutor of Film Studies (MAH)Dr Ivor Simpson
Senior Lecturer Artificial Intelligence (EngInf)Dr Milan Terlunen
Research Fellow in Digital Humanities in English (MAH)Dr Joseph Walton
SHL Research Fellow in Digital Humanities/Critical & Cultural Theory & tutor in English (MAH)Dr Alban Webb
Lecturer in Media and Cultural Studies (Media and Film) (MAH)Prof Julie Weeds
Professor in Artificial Intelligence (EngInf)Technical and Professional Services support
Elena Dennison
Programme ManagerKate Malone
Administrator & Communications OfficerAlex Peverett
Research TechnicianDr Nic Seymour-Smith
Research Software Engineer - Faculty
Dr Simon Bowes
Assistant Professor in Cognitive Science in Informatics (EngInf)Dr Josh Bowsher
Assistant Professor in Sociology and Criminology (Law)Dr Emeline Brule
Assistant Professor in Product Design Informatics (EngInf)Dr Natalia Cecire
Senior Lecturer in English & American Literature (MAH)Prof Andy Clark
Professor in Cognitive Philosophy (MAH)Dr Daniel Creed
Assistant Professor in Computing Science in Informatics (EngInf)Dr Misha Ewen
Assistant Professor in American History - Pre-1900 (MAH)Dr Evelyn Ficarra
Senior Lecturer in Music (MAH)Dr Victoria Hall
Research Fellow in Medical Anthropology (Global Health and Infection) (Brighton & Sussex Medical School)Prof Tim Hitchcock
Emeritus Professor of Digital History (MAH)Dr Bonnie Holligan
Senior Lecturer in Law (LPS)Tim Hopkins
Senior Research Fellow Music (MAH)Prof Ed Hughes
Professor of Composition in Music (MAH)Prof Margaretta Jolly
Professor of Cultural Studies (MAH)Dr Michael Jonik
Senior Lecturer in English and American Literature (MAH)Dr Caroline Khene (Pade)
Digital Cluster Leader (Institute of Development Studies)Dr James Knight
Research Fellow (EngInf)Dr Birgul Kutan
Assistant Professor in Education (ESW)Dr Maria Teresa Llano
Associate Professor in Informatics (EngInf)Dr Jacob Norris
Senior Lecturer in Middle East History (MAH)Dr Micheál O'Connell
Lecturer in Media Practice (photography, Media & Film) (MAH)Prof Kate O'Riordan
Pro Vice Chancellor for Education and Students (Vice-Chancellor's Office)Dr Derya Ozdemir Kaya
Assistant Professor in Work and Organisation (Business School)Prof Andy Philippides
Professor of Biorobotics (Informatics) (EngInf)Dr Jeremy Reffin
Research Professor Informatics (EngInf)Dr Charlotte Robinson
Assistant Professor in Ergonomics, Human Factors and Design in Informatics(Enginf)Dr Charlie Rumsby
Research Lecturer in Childhood and Youth (ESW)Teresa Sutton
Associate Professor in Law (LPS)Prof Rachel Thomson
Professor of Childhood & Youth Studies (ESW)Dr Christopher Warne
Senior Lecturer History & Sussex Centre for Migration Research (MAH) - Visiting Fellows & Artists
Laurence Hill (2021 - 2023)
Dr Louise Falcini (2022-23)
Suze Shardlow (2022-23)
Ian Winters (Visiting Artist 2022-23)
Dr Sissel Marie Tonn-Peterson (2022)
Dr Annika Richterich (2019-21)
Dr Thorsten Ries (2018-19)
Kate Shields (Artist in Residence 2021- 2022)
Daisy Stewart-Darling (Artist in Residence 2023- 2024)
- PhD Community Advocates
Gianna Golding (2023- 2025) & DMA programme facilitator 2025-26
Di Yu (2023-25)
Esme Stanford - Durkin (2023-24)
Ellie Priest (2022-23)
Hanna Randall (2022-23)
- Doctoral Students
Nathan Richards
Kiran Gibb
Max Worgan
Steve Symons
Jonathan Reus
Fiona Miller
Sam Bilbow
Joshua Hargreves