Dr. Barbara McGillivray is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities and Cultural Computation at King's College London, part of the Department of Digital Humanities within the Faculty of Arts & Humanities. Prior to joining King's in 2021, she was a Turing Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute and the University of Cambridge (2017–2021), and held roles in academic publishing at Oxford University Press and Springer Nature. She holds a PhD in Computational Linguistics from the University of Pisa (2010), alongside a Master's in Mathematics and a Bachelor's in Classics from the University of Florence. Her research focuses on computational methods applied to humanities questions, particularly semantic change analysis in ancient and contemporary texts, time-aware NLP, and open data publishing. She leads the 'Computational Humanities Research Group' and co-leads the Living with Machines project, exploring 19th-century language of technology. She is Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Open Humanities Data and convenor of King’s MA in Digital Humanities. Research Interests : Computational models of word meaning, semantic change in ancient languages (Latin/Greek), historical texts, and contemporary data; time-aware NLP; computational lexicography; open science advocacy. Teaching : Text processing, quantitative text analysis, data visualization, Python/R programming, natural language processing, and quantitative methods in the humanities. Grants & Awards : £2M UKRI Horizon Europe funding (2025), Inter Circle U. Prize for interdisciplinary research (2022), Best Paper Award (2024) for Deep Impact: A Study on Data Papers in Humanities . Projects : COALA (Latin semantic annotation), MuseIT (multisensory cultural experiences), Living with Machines (19th-century language analysis). Collaborates internationally on semantic change, linked open data, and historical language modeling.











