Core Group
Catherine Beck
Catherine Beck is a Marie- Skłodowska-Curie Actions Fellow at the Faculty of History, Lund University. Her project ‘FLOTSAM: Fragmented data, lost voice and the potential silences of the digitised archive’, draws on her specialism in the social history of disability in the eighteenth-century maritime world, to investigate the potential impact of digital methods on sensitive or ‘hidden’ histories. She has previously held postdoctoral positions at University of Copenhagen, the Institute of Historical Research London and the National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, UK.
Catherine can be reached at catherine.beck@hist.lu.se
Clara Dalsgaard
Clara Dalsgaard is a PhD Student in History at Lund University. Her project investigates medieval lead amulets with Latin inscriptions from Northern Europe. Through the lenses of demonology, literacy, liturgy, and paleography, the project sheds light on the Scandinavian areas in the centuries following the conversion to Christianity. She utilizes relational database modelling with SQL to highlight patterns and trends in the amulet text corpus.
Clara can be reached at clara.dalsgaard_rievers@hist.lu.se
Mathias Johansson
Mathias is a PhD candidate at Uppsala University and former systems developer at Lund University. He is knowledgable about various digital methods and systems for conducting history research, such as several programming languages and a lot of experience working with AI tools. In his PhD project he is experimenting with LLM:s to create a genealogy of technology from patent records.
Mathias can be reached at mathias.johansson@fek.uu.se
Natacha Klein Käfer
Natacha Klein Käfer is associate professor at the Centre for Privacy Studies, Copenhagen University, and a researcher in History at Lund University. Her areas of expertise are medical history, global history, and history of knowledge ownership. Natacha is also PI of the history project Secrets to Patents.
Natacha can be reached at natacha.klein_kafer@hist.lu.se
Cecilia Lundström
Cecilia Lundström works as project assistant in many different projects at the Faculty of History, Lund University. Her academic background in history, cultural analysis and literature studies has profiled her into popular culture, specifically games and comic books, as research subjects. She holds an MA in History, MA in Cultural Analysis and BA in Comparative Literature.
Cecilia can be reached at cecilia.lundstrom@hist.lu.se
Affiliated People and Projects
Secrets to Patents
Lund University and Copenhagen University
secretstopatents.org
Contact
The core group is located at Helgonavägen 3, Lund, Sweden.
For inquries, contact Cecilia Lundström at cecilia.lundstrom@hist.lu.se.
