Andrea Kocsis, Chancellor’s Fellow in Humanities Informatics
Dr Andrea Kocsis is a Chancellor’s Fellow in Humanities Informatics. Andrea comes from an interdisciplinary and international background. Before finding her path in digital humanities, she graduated in Communications, Archaeology, History, and Geography. She collected these degrees at the Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest, Charles University in Prague, and EHESS Paris.
She received her MPhil and PhD in Heritage Studies from the University of Cambridge (ESRC DTP). Her doctoral research focused on the impact the national WWI commemorations had on the urban landscape of capital cities, London, Paris, and Budapest. She found her passion for coding while acting as a CodeFirst: Girls ambassador at the University of Cambridge, helping women and non-binary students receive free coding classes.
As a Cambridge Grand Challenges research intern at BT, she participated in a machine learning project on 5G misinformation. At the National Archives UK, she was a Research Fellow in Advance Digital Methods, working with the crowdsourced dataset of the Operation War Diary. As an Archive of Tomorrow Research Methods Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities, she worked on classifying misinformation in the Talking about Health collection of the UK Web Archive. In her role as the National Librarian’s Research Fellow in Digital Scholarship 2024-25 at the National Library of Scotland, she continues contributing to making the UK Web Archive’s collections more accessible to wider audiences.
Besides being an avid writer, Andrea has a profound interest in digital storytelling, especially in web development, facilitating the interaction between GLAM institutions and their users. She is a web developer for several research projects aiming at gamified and interactive dissemination. Her works include the digital outputs of the Unforgotten Lives exhibition at the London Metropolitan Archives.
Andrea was an Assistant Professor in History and Data Science at Northeastern University London, a Lecturer in Digital Humanities at Anglia Ruskin University, and an Affiliate Faculty member at CSSH at Northeastern University (Boston) before joining the University of Edinburgh.
Andrea’s research interests include:
- Digital history and heritage
- Complex Systems in historical research
- Misinformation in the past and the present
- Emotions and contested heritage
- Medieval heritage and medievalism
Follow Andrea’s work on Google Scholar (https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=8uQ0y2oAAAAJ&hl=en), LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrea-kocsis-2b3a152b/) , Twitter, and GitHub (@aurigandrea).