Lise Jaillant is Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage in the School of Social Sciences & Humanities at Loughborough University, UK. She previously held positions at Newcastle University, the University of East Anglia and the University of Manchester.
Lise grew up in France and studied sociology at Sciences-Po Paris (one of the prestigious "grandes écoles"). She then did an MA (Distinction) in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and a PhD in English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Lise has expertise on born-digital archives and the issues of preservation and access to these archives. Since 2020, she has been UK PI for four AHRC-funded projects on Archives and Artificial Intelligence. These international projects aim to make digitised and born-digital archives more accessible to researchers, and to use innovative research methods such as AI to analyse archival data.
Lise enjoys working across sectors and disciplines. As a digital humanist, she has extensive experience of collaborating with computer scientists, archivists, librarians, and government professionals to unlock digital archival data with innovative technologies.
Picture: Lise's first book on open shelves at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
