2025 Susan Hockey Lecture – Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection
We are delighted to invite you to the 2025 Susan Hockey Lecture – Oral History as Data? Critically approaching the digital turn in method, meaning and recollection – to be delivered by the HDSM chair Professor Julianne Nyhan as in 2025 UCLDH centre celebrates its 15th anniversary. This centre is a part of the UCL Institute of Advanced Studies. UCLDH draws on UCL’s world-class research strength especially in information studies, computing science, and the arts and humanities.
To attend registration is required: https://ucldh-hockey-lecture-2025.eventbrite.co.uk
📎Date and Time
22 May 2025
6-8 pm GMT+1
📎Location
Gustave Tuck Lecture Theatre
2nd Floor, South Junction, Wilkins Building
UCL, Gower St, London
WC1E 6BT
United Kingdom
In her talk, Prof. Julianne Nyhan will answer questions about oral history interviews that can be viewed as “data” sources in a century where digital methods are increasingly expanding research in the humanities. What should we consider when working with such historical sources using digital methods? And what possible consequences could this have on the results and scientific analysis? Prof. Nyhan will draw on new and ongoing research towards a “Multimodal Digital Oral History” (Smith, Nyhan and Flinn 2023) and the TU Darmstadt and UCL bilateral project entitled “Mixed-methods Digital Oral History: Enfolding semantic web technologies and historical-interpretative analysis” funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council and the German Research Foundation (2024-27).
Professor Nyhan’s research focuses on the history of Digital Humanities, especially in terms of researching non-canonical histories and the role that participatory approaches can play in this. Her particular interest is on uncovering ‘hidden’, overlooked or devalued contributions to the field’s emergence and development.
This is the sixth lecture in the UCLDH Susan Hockey Lecture series, named after Susan Hockey, Emeritus Professor of Library and Information Studies at UCL, and a leading figure in the establishment of Humanities Computing as an academic discipline.

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