Barbara Mcgillivray
Senior Lecturer In Digital And Computational Humanities
London, England, United Kingdom
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Top SchoolBarbara Mcgillivray is a Senior Lecturer in Digital and Computational Humanities and a PhD-trained computational linguist with nine years of experience bridging academic research and industry data science. She has led NLP and data-driven projects across publishing and research institutions—including Springer Nature, Oxford University Press, The Alan Turing Institute and King’s College London—translating scholarly content into actionable insights and production-ready tooling. Her work spans bibliometrics, large-scale corpus building, lemmatization and POS tagging, and ML models for citation prediction, with a track record of delivering projects to time and budget. As Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Humanities Data she champions open data practices and reproducible research, while her background in Classics and Mathematics informs a rare cross-disciplinary fluency in language, computation and formal reasoning.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Classics, Bachelor's degree, Classics at Università degli Studi di FirenzeDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational linguistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computational linguistics at Università di Pisa
Italian, English, latino, Greek, French
Github Skills (21)
digital-humanities8
linked-open-data8
historian7
website-hosting7
api7
network-analysis6
hosting5
ckan5
data-management5
python5
open-source3
language-processing2
clustering2
nlp2
pipeline2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
BarbaraMcG/darwin-semantic-change
Jun 2021 - Apr 2025
Contributions:25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
alan-turing-institute/hartlib
Nov 2017 - Feb 2021
Contributions:1 release, 11 pushes, 1 tag in 3 years 3 months
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