Dr Natasha Kitcher
- Role
- Researcher
Digital Researcher
About
Natasha is a Digital Researcher with a background in history and public history. Her research explores how our historical collections can be treated as data, as well as researcher engagement with 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. Here she explored the potential for researcher notes to be used to automatically generate descriptions, multimodal collections linkage, and curated an end of project exhibition hosted at the National Science and Media Museum during Bradford City of Culture.
Her PhD was a CDP supervised by Loughborough University and BT Archives (as part of the Science Museum Consortium). The thesis created the first complete history of the Electrophone in Britain 1893–1938. Her work focused on public engagement, media theory, and deployed the use of digital tools to deal with a diverse set of historical data.
Publications
- Kaspar Beelen and Natasha Kitcher, 'Heritage Weaver: Classifying, Searching and Linking Museum Data with Multimodal AI,' Anthology of Computers and the Humanities, (2025)
- Natasha Kitcher, 'Re-telling the Nuclear Story: How theatre could be the answer to women's absence in scientific history,' Women's History Today, (2023)