Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities Support
Dr Megan Gooch, FRSA, is the Head of the Centre for Digital Scholarship and Digital Humanities Support, working in both the Bodleian Libraries and Division of Humanities. Her interests in Digital Humanities are in data management, digitisation and in supporting research, teaching and impact in digital scholarship. She serves on a number of national and international library committees as a digital scholarship specialist.
She has previously worked in the museums and heritage sector as a curator, learning producer, creative producer and research fellow at Historic Royal Palaces and as a curator at the British Museum. Her recent research and professional practice have focused on digital repositories and on public engagement with heritage, and she was the Leadership Research Fellow on the AHRC-funded project Lest We Forget: Poppies and Public Commemoration. As a result of this work she is on the steering committee for the War and Conflict Subject Specialist Network run by the IWM.
Megan's PhD was in early medieval numismatics, and she still maintains a strong interest in coins and medals and supporting the numismatic community through her work as Vice-President of the Royal Numismatic Society and as the medieval and post-medieval Coin Specialist on the DCMS Treasure Valuation Committee.
