UCL
Andrew FlinnProfessor of Archival Studies and Oral History
Faculty of Arts and Humanities
Independent archives, community history, oral history, and participatory approaches to heritage activism.
ContactThe Lab · People
The people behind the works.
The International Digital Oral History Lab is a partnership of UCL Information Studies and TU Darmstadt HDSM — historians, archivists, computational linguists and information scientists working across critical AI, digital humanities, and the ethics of memory.
01 Principal Investigators
Senior faculty &
programme leads.
03 / Leadership
The Lab’s leadership directs research across all three programmes — Hidden Histories, Multimodal Digital Oral History, and MeDoraH — with shared research questions.
TU Darmstadt · UCL
Julianne NyhanChair of Humanities Data Science and Methodology
TU Darmstadt HDSM & UCL
Digital humanities, the history of computing, and critical approaches to AI, data, and heritage.
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UCL
Andreas VlachidisAssociate Professor of Information Science
Department of Information Studies
Natural language processing, knowledge bases, and the semantic enrichment of cultural heritage.
Contact02 Research Staff
Postdoctoral researchers &
research associates.
03 / Postdocs & associates
The Lab’s daily research is carried out by postdocs and research associates working at the intersection of oral history, computational linguistics, and FAIR semantic infrastructure.
TU Darmstadt
Frieda SchmidtPostdoctoral Researcher
Institut für Geschichte, HDSM
Mixed-methods digital oral history; narratives of emergence and change in computing in the humanities.
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TU Darmstadt
Aleksey VarfolomeyevPostdoctoral Researcher
Institut für Geschichte, HDSM
Computational linguistics, digital humanities infrastructure, and information science for historical research.
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UCL
Jiajie ZhangResearch Associate
Department of Information Studies
Knowledge graphs, text analytics, and large language models for interdisciplinary research.
Contact03 Affiliates
Honorary fellows
& cross-institutional ties.
01 / Affiliated
Researchers affiliated with the Lab through partner institutions, bringing collections, expertise, and ongoing collaborations.
UCL · TNA
Marco HumbelHonorary Research Fellow
The National Archives, UK
Collections as data, automated text recognition, and participatory approaches to digital cultural heritage.
Contact04 Research Assistants
Working at the bench
of digital oral history.
02 / Graduate researchers
Graduate researchers contributing day-to-day to the Lab’s programmes — annotation, infrastructure, and field documentation.
