Dr Natasha Kitcher
- Role
- Researcher
Digital Researcher
About
Natasha is a Digital Researcher currently focused on researcher infrastructure for the UK Government Web Archive. Her specialisms include digital humanities, the history of science and technology, and media history.
Research activity
Natasha was previously the Research Fellow focused on Digital History of Communications for a Towards a National Collection project hosted by the Science Museum Group, where she explored the potential for researcher notes to be used to automatically generate descriptions, multimodal collections linkage, and curated an end of project exhibit hosted at the National Science and Media Museum during Bradford City of Culture.
Her PhD created the first complete history of the Electrophone in Britain 1893 – 1938. Her thesis focused on public engagement, media theory, and deployed the use of digital tools to deal with a diverse set of historical data.