Zoe Bartliff is currently a lecturer on the Media Culture and Society PGT program, teaching a range of Information Studies courses. She is also a researcher on the Participatory Harm Auditing Workbench and Methodologies (PHAWM) project. Her research and teaching focuses on computational digital humanities methods and how these can transform access and engagement for users with various needs, particularly within a cultural heritage setting.

Her PhD thesis involved manually encoding a corpus of medieval Welsh law texts and investigating how this encoding adds value in understanding the relationships between these texts. She then built on this research in several post-doctoral positions as well as in teaching practices by shifting focus towards archival and the wider cultural heritage sector. 

Zoe Bartliff is a PDRA on the Responsible AI UK funded 'Participatory Harm Auditing Workbench Methodologies (PHAWM)' project, Zoe brings her expertise in identifying user needs, data usage in cultural heritage and data analysis to the wider project aims of providing tools and methods to support non-AI experts (in this case cultural heritage professionals and users) to effectively audit generative AI tools.

She has a first class MA (Hons) degree in Classical and Celtic studies, specialising in the analyses of mytho-histories and in the evolutions of the Welsh and Latin language. These interests led naturally into her PhD thesis topic: an investigation into the efficacy of computer based methodologies for the analysis of the Medieval Welsh law texts Cyfraith Hywel. Having completed her PhD, she has broadened her early interests by incorporating Digital Humanities research methodologies and specifically how these methodologies can be combined to access, process and analyse textual data.

In previous research roles, she has worked primarily on the extraction and analysis of data and its presentation in a way that accounts for various user needs. As a part of the Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin's Personal Cinema (LSDPC) project, she employed digital forensics tools and combined these with data exploration techniques. She works closely with the Archive and Special Collections team at the University of Reading to enhance access to the digital archival record through the use of these methodologies. Similarly, she has been working with the other branches of the project to fold in Digital Humanities methodologies with theoretical and historical approaches.

She has also worked on the AHRC and Irish Research Council funded IIIF4Research network project, working to deliver project workshops and conducting data analysis on the project survey as well as the Our Heritage, Our Stories (TaNC) project, synthesising project outcomes into publications.

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The National Archives Testbed project - Co-investigator in conjunction with University of Reading

Zoe Bartliff has worked within several subject areas in the University, teaching first as a GTA across Classical Civilisation, Comparative Literature and Information Studies courses and then as an LTS lecturer in Information Studies. As well as this, she has taught within schools through her work with the Widening Participation scheme and with her previous employment for a well-known social enterprise. 

Courses include:

Media Culture and Society PGT course - Introduction to Digital Humanities; History of ICT

Information Studies – Honours Dissertation course; Data Analysis, Visualisation and Communication; Introduction to Digital Humanities; DMIS 1A and 1B; Multi-media Analysis and Design A&B; DMIS 2A and 2B; Document Encoding (Hons. and PGT); Description, Cataloguing, & Navigation (Hons. and PGT); Management, Curation & Preservation of Digital Materials, PGT dissertation suppervision for IMP and Museum Studies

Classical Civilisation – Classical civilisation 1A, 1B, 2A, 2B and 1A&B BOLD          

Comparative Literature – Comparative literature 1A and 1B   

Zoe Bartliff is currently holding the role of Fixed-Term Contract staff representative for the School of Humanities School Management Team, working with fixed-term staff within the school to ensure that their needs and interests are met.

She has been involved with the planning, organisation and management of a several academic events such as the Three Minute Thesis competition in her role as the PGR office intern. She played a key role in developing and delivering the Alt+Shift+Archive symposium for The Legacies of Stephen Dwoskin's Personal Cinema project and supported delivery of two workshops for the IIIF4R AHRC and Irish Research Council Network project. In addition to this, through her job with a well known social enterprise, she was responsible for planning and implementing several high profile corporate and celebrity events, including work with Glasgow Life for National Poetry Day, Aye Write. She worked with local schools, high security establishments and certain Glasgow University societies implementing and delivering a series of awareness raising workshops. Also in this role, she practiced conflict management and networking on an almost daily basis and she was instrumental in the design, implementation and staff training of the new digital administrative system of a new company-wide administrative system.