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Biography

Shawn Day blends the aesthetic and informative as an entrepreneur, digital historian, economist. Raised in Canada, he now lectures at University College Cork in Digital Humanities. He previously was Digital Humanities Strategist for Queen's University Belfast and lectured in Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. His current activities vast and varied foster Irish scholarship in Digital and Medical Humanities and Social Computing.

His personal research explores the social and economic circumstances of the nineteenth century retail liquor trade and it's impact on family. He applies digital, spatial and social network analysis to the relationships between credit, respectability, and order in the Victorian community. Recent articles have examined the social dimensions of the Victorian public mental hospital using GIS and statistical modeling tools. Shawn has been involved in a number of successful and innovative digital humanities projects. These include large manuscript census databases in the 1871/1891 census project (University of Guelph), the national TAPoR text analysis portal project, the Canadian Network for Economic History (CNEH) and the Network for Canadian History and the Environment (NiCHE).

Shawn has blended his background in management economics with an entrepreneurial ethos to found a number of successful software development ventures in Canada and bringing this experience to academic pursuits.

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Employment (2)

University College Cork: Cork, IE

2013-10-01 to present | Lecturer (Digital Humanities)
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Royal Irish Academy: Dublin, IE

2008-06-01 to 2013-09-15 | Project Manager (Digital Humanities Observatory)
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Education and qualifications (4)

University College Cork National University of Ireland: Cork, Cork, IE

2018-01-01 to present | PhD (Geography)
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McMaster University: Hamilton, ON, CA

2004-09-01 to 2008-08-30 | PhD (History)
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University of Guelph: Guelph, ON, CA

2002-01-01 to 2004-04-01 | MA (History)
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University of Guelph: Guelph, ON, CA

1984-09-01 to 1988-04-01 | BA Specialised Honors (Management Economics)
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