Sharon Webb

  
  • Lecturer in Digital Humanities
  • University of Sussex
  • Twitter: @wsharon145

Sharon Webb is a Digital Humanities Lecturer in the Sussex Humanities Lab and the School of History, Art History and Philosophy. She is a historian of Irish associational culture and nationalism (eighteenth and nineteenth century) but has also studied computer science at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her PhD in History, from Maynooth University (Ireland), can be described as a digital humanities project as it entailed software development as well as historical research, reflecting her background in history and computer science.