Research
Some thematic areas of research.
18th-Century History of Science & Medicine (esp. in Scotland)
How were medical and natural philosophical ideas organized, taught, and transmitted in the long eighteenth century? I investigate knowledge systems, pedagogical practices, and intellectual networks, particularly in the Scottish Enlightenment.
Key Areas
- The life and work of Dr. William Cullen (1712-1790)
- Scottish medical education and scientific societies
- David Hume, natural philosophy, and medicine
- Chemical work of Joseph Black
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Digital Humanities
How can computational methods help us read, organise, and visualise historical corpora? I develop tools and workflows for text analysis, network visualisation, and corpus annotation—built to answer specific research questions rather than as ends in themselves.
Key Areas
- NLP: topic modeling, text re-use
- Search: keyword and semantic search, Big Data
- Interactive visualisations: networks, timelines, thematic maps
- Toolkits: computer vision, transcription and annotation tools
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Research Software Engineering
I build native macOS applications that solve specific problems I encounter in my own historical research and writing, which may be helpful to others.
Key Areas
- Working with manuscripts: handwriting comparison, manuscript analysis
- Biographical research: Tools to automate and streamline biographical research
- Research workflows: Making the process of conducting research and creating scholarship more efficient
- End-to-end digitisation (transcriptions and annotation) tools
- Tools to support the creation of scholarly editions