Dr Eirini Goudarouli

Biography

Eirini is the Head of Research at The National Archives, UK.

Eirini has spent most of her professional career developing and leading research, innovation and engagement projects and programmes across the information, cultural and academic sectors. Over the past few years, she has led various exciting initiatives to support The National Archives UK role as an Independent Research Organisation, a research partner and leader.

Her expertise and current interests focus on digital cultural heritage. She is particularly interested in rethinking how cultural heritage organisations can enable the use and reuse of physical, digital and born-digital collections for research and experimentation. She has extensively published about research and digital innovation within cultural heritage, established strong collaborations at national and international level and secured funding for research.

Eirini is a member at the Arts a Humanities Research Council Peer Review College, 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.

Before joining The National Archives UK, She was a researcher at the University of Warwick and an Associate Research Fellow at Birkbeck, London. In 2015, She received a doctorate in History of Science from the University of Athens in Greece, and has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge and the University of Helsinki. In previous years, She spent more than five years working with the University Archives and the Lab for the Electronic Processing of historical archives at the University of Athens.



LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

Book series: Digital Cultural Heritage. The Past, Present and Future or Digital Cultural Heritage, University of London Press, edited by J. Winters, A.M. Sichani and E. Goudarouli, University of London Press (forthcoming in April 2025).

Materialities of the Digital Archive, edited by E. Goudarouli and A. Prescott, Publication award: Proceedings of the British Academy, University of Oxford Press (2024).

E. Goudarouli (2023), ‘Digital Innovation and Archival Thinking’, edited by A. Wiggins and A. Prescott, in Archives, Power, Truth, and Fiction volume, Oxford University Press.

E. Goudarouli et al., (2023), ‘Workshop Report: Archives and the Environment’, Zenodo.

J. Liem, A. Slingsby, E. Goudarouli, M. Bell, C. Turkay, C. Perin, J. Wood, (2023) ‘Visualising the Uncertain in Heritage Collections: Understanding, Exploring and Representing Uncertainty in the First World War British Unit War Diaries’, Literary Geographies, Vol 9/no 1.

'Special Issue on Challenges and Prospects of Born-digital and Digitized Archives in the Digital Humanities', edited by L. Jaillant and E. Goudarouli, Archival Science, September 2022, Vol 22/ Issue 3.

'Special Issue on Computational Archival Science', edited by M. Hedges, R. Marciano and E. Goudarouli, ACM Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage Journal, February 2022, Vol 15/Issue 1.

The Alan Turing Data Study Group Final Report: The National Archives, UK: Discovering Topics and Trends in the UK Government Web Archive (2021).

Barbara McGillivray, […], E. Goudarouli, et al., (2020) ‘Challenges and prospects of the intersection of humanities and data science: A white paper from The Alan Turing Institute’, co-authored by members of the Humanities and Data Science special interest group at the Alan Turing Institute.

E. Goudarouli, (2020), Workshop report: Computational Archival Science: Exploring Data, Investigating Methodologies and Bringing Interdisciplinary Groups Together, Zenodo.

E. Goudarouli, A. Sexton, J. Sheridan (2019) “The Challenge of the Digital and the Future Archive: Through the Lens of The National Archives UK”, J. Philos. Technol., 32: 173 - 183.