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Professor Ian Gregory, Distinguished Professor of Digital Humanities at Lancaster University's School of Global Affairs, is a pioneer in integrating Geographical Information Systems (GIS) with humanities research. His work bridges historical demography, literary studies, and social geography through projects like the European Research Council-funded Spatial Humanities: Texts, GIS, Places and the Leverhulme Trust's Geospatial Innovation in the Digital Humanities.
- BA in Geography (Lancaster), MSc in GIS (Edinburgh), PhD in Historical GIS (London)
- Co-founder of Lancaster’s Digital Humanities Centre
- Former Head of Department of History (2018-2022), now Associate Dean of Research
Research Interests:
- Historical GIS for long-term change in Britain and Ireland
- Textual GIS to analyze large corpora (e.g., Lake District literature, 19th-century newspapers)
- Developing spatial methodologies for humanities scholarship
Publications span GIS applications in literary geography, historical demography, and corpus linguistics, with recent trends focusing on emotional mapping of testimonies and deep mapping of cultural landscapes.
Grants include 25 major awards (14 as PI) from the ERC, AHRC, ESRC, and Leverhulme Trust, supporting projects on topics like space-time narratives and historical vegetation change.
Labs/Teams: Co-directs Lancaster’s Digital Humanities Centre, fostering collaboration in spatial humanities, NLP, and AI.
