
- Position: Head of Research
- Specialism: Computational and Experimental Humanities, Digital Innovation in Cultural Heritage, Research leadership and mentorship
- eirini.goudarouli@nationalarchives.gov.uk
Eirini has extensive experience working on interdisciplinary research projects across the Cultural Heritage and Higher Education sectors. A historian of science by training, Eirini started her career holding research and managerial roles at the University Archives and the University Lab for the electronic processing of historical collections at the University of Athens in Greece. This early engagement with heritage collections and their digital representation, exploration and analysis, led her to develop a passion for digital cultural heritage.
In 2015 she received her doctorate degree from the University of Athens. As part of her doctoral research, she spent a year at Clare Hall and the History and Philosophy of Science department at the University of Cambridge in the UK and a few months at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Before joining The National Archives, UK Eirini was a researcher at the University of Warwick and an Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, London. Over the past years, Eirini also held various digital research roles in UK information-holding institutions and academia, before she joined The National Archives, UK in 2017 where she is now the Head of Research.
Her current focus of work is to drive innovation that enables the unlocking of physical, digital and born-digital collections in new ways for broadening our current understanding through ground-breaking interdisciplinary research and cross-sector collaborations. Eirini is particularly interested in bringing together methods and theories from a range of disciplines that could essentially contribute to the rethinking of digital, archival and collection-based research.
Eirini is a Research Fellow at the Research Centre for the Humanities in Greece, a member of ‘Humanities and Data Science’ special interest group at the Alan Turing Institute, and a board member of the Advanced Information Collaboratory, an international network with partners from leading academic and cultural institutions spanning five continents.