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Dr Mark Hedges serves as Reader in Cultural Informatics and Head of the Department of Digital Humanities within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities at King’s College London. He is also Director of the Centre for e-Research. His academic background includes a Bachelor of Arts in Mathematics and Philosophy from Bedford College, University of London (1983), a PhD in Pure Mathematics from University College London (1986), and a Master of Arts in Late Antique and Byzantine Studies from King’s College London (2004). Prior to academia, he pursued a 17-year career in software and systems consultancy, working on large-scale development projects for industrial and commercial clients. He joined King’s College London in 2005 as Technical Manager of the Arts and Humanities Data Service, progressed to Deputy Director and then Director of the Centre for e-Research, and moved to his current position in the Department of Digital Humanities in 2012.

Mark Hedges’ research interests focus on crowdsourcing and participatory methods in the humanities and for social engagement, digital and computational methods in the humanities, digital curation, digital archives, and research infrastructures, as well as the social and cultural impact of digital technologies and information, particularly in development contexts such as post-genocide Rwanda. He has led major projects including the €12 million EU-funded PARTHENOS on research infrastructures for humanities and cultural heritage sectors, AHRC-funded Scoping a Data Service for Complex 3D Data in the Arts and Humanities (2022), International Research Collaboration Network in Computational Archival Science (2019-2020), and initiatives on the impact of digital archives in Rwanda involving public engagement. Key publications include "Archival Records and Training in the Age of Big Data" (2018, Advances in Librarianship), "Understanding Memories of the Holocaust? A new approach to Neural Networks in the Digital Humanities" (2020, Digital Scholarship in the Humanities), "An Integrative Approach to Building Peace Using Digital Media" (2020, Journal of Peacebuilding and Development), and "Introduction to the Special Issue on Computational Archival Science" (2022, Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage), with over 450 citations in total. He teaches on modules for the MA in Digital Asset and Media Management and the MA in Digital Curation.