Michael is Director of The Digital Humanities Institute. He has 30 years experience in developing, managing and delivering large collaborative research projects and technology R&D in the arts and humanities. During that time the DHI has been the technical partner in over 120 national and international projects with over 100 clients. He also oversees the DHI’s postgraduate degree programmes and its academic teaching and research team.
He is currently Principal Investigator (UK) on the project C21 Editions: Scholarly Editing and Publishing in the Digital Age (AHRC and Irish Research Council) and Research Lead on the MSCA/UKRI Doctoral Network CASCADE.
He was Principal Investigator on the following projects: Connecting Shakespeare (HEIF), Dewdrop (Jisc), Reinventing Local Public Libraries (HEIF), and Manuscripts Online (Jisc); Co-Investigator on the following projects: Intoxicants and Early Modernity (ESRC/AHRC), Linguistic DNA (AHRC), Beyond the Multiplex (AHRC), Ways of Being in the Digital Age (ESRC), and Scoping Future Data Services (AHRC); and he has been the technical lead on a wide number of projects such as Digital Panopticon (AHRC).
Michael oversees the work of the DHI which includes:
- Responsibility for the development and delivery of its research projects.
- Initiating and developing research funding proposals.
- Overseeing the DHI’s postgraduate degree programmes.
- Leading and developing the DHI’s operations and strategic objectives.
- Managing the DHI’s team of research software engineers, digital humanities lecturers, research associates, project managers and professional services personnel.
- Managing the DHI’s relationship with its clients and stakeholders.
- Developing new relationships and business opportunities.
- Representing the DHI nationally and internationally as well as within the University more widely.
- Overseeing the online resources which the DHI hosts on behalf of its partners.
Michael serves as the main point of contact for project partners undertaking a collaboration with the DHI and he bears responsibility for the DHI’s commitments to its projects.
Research Interests
- Data ontologies
- Scholarly digital editions
- Research infrastructure
- Information systems design
- Online publishing
Recent Publications
- Pidd, M. (2023). Analysing film audiences: the merits of a data ontology. Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies. Volume 19, issue 2, pp.266–282.
- O’Sullivan, J., Pidd, M. (2023). The born-digital in future digital scholarly editing and publishing. Humanities and Social Science Communication. Volume 10, 930.