Dr. Mia Ridge

Dr Mia Ridge is the British Library’s Digital Curator for Western Heritage Collections. As part of the Library’s Digital Scholarship team, she helps enable innovative research based on the British Library’s digital collections, offering support, training and guidance on applying computational research methods to historical collections. Her current projects involve experimenting with machine learning-based methods with library collections. She is a Co-Investigator on the Living with Machines, a major inter-disciplinary historical and data science research project. Mia’s PhD in digital humanities was titled ‘Making digital history: The impact of digitality on public participation and scholarly practices in historical research’. Mia has post-graduate qualifications in software development and an MSc in Human-Centred Systems (Human Computer Interaction). She was Chair of the Museums Computer Group (MCG) from 2011 to 2017, and a member of the Executive Council of the Association for Computers and the Humanities (ACH) from 2013-2017. More..