Dr Hugh Denard

Hugh Denard lectures in the Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King's College, London, where he convenes the MA in Digital Culture and Technology and is Associate Director of the King's Visualisation Lab. He directs a JISC-funded project to establish a Support Network for academics using 3D visualisation technologies in the Arts and Humanities, and is co-director of an AHRC-funded ICT Methods project designed to develop "a methodology for tracking and documenting the cognitive process in 3-dimensional visualisation-based research."

Hugh read Drama and Classical Civilizations at Trinity College Dublin, before going on to take an MA in Ancient Drama and Society (Classics) at the University of Exeter.

Hugh is a member of the research team for The Pompey Project, an ongoing project to study and digitally to reconstruct Rome's earliest stone theatre, and jointly directs a theatre-historical programme of research that uses advanced visualisation techniques to explore 'theatrical' aspects of Pompeian frescos and Roman domestic environments. Hugh was also Joint Academic Director of ARCHES, a two-year programme of work at the University of Warwick funded by JISC to create and embed in a range of innovative teaching projects a new, freely-available online database of visual resources relating to ancient drama, now available through Didaskalia.

Dr Ian Gregory

Ian Gregory is Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Lancaster University. He is by training a geographer with an MSc in Geographical Information Systems (GIS) from the University of Edinburgh. His PhD research was informed by his role in the Great Britain Historical GIS (GBHGIS), a major database that comprises the majority of statistical data from sources such as the census and vital registration data for the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has held positions at Queen Mary, University of London, the University of Portsmouth and as the Associate Director of Centre for Data Digitisation and Analysis at the Queens University, Belfast.  In September 2006 he moved to Lancaster to lead a new initiative in Digital Humanities.

Ian is on the editorial boards of the journals Social Science History, Historical Methods, and the International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Social Science History Association and has twice served as co-chair of their Historical Geography network. He recently became co-chair of the European Social Science History Conference's Historical Computing and GIS network.

He has published two books on Historical GIS. His online publication, A Place in History, is one of the formative publications on the application of spatial components to the study of history. He also hosts the Historical GIS Research Network website.