About

Lidia Bocanegra Barbecho is a lecturer in the Contemporary History Department at the Universidad de Granada (UGR) and Citizen Science Coordinator at the Vicerrectorado e de Innovación Social, Empleabilidad y Emprendimiento. She is also the Digital Humanities responsible at Medialab UGR – “Laboratorio de Investigación en sociedad y cultura digital” and research member of  the Unit for Computational Humanities and Social Sciences (U-CHASS)  and the South Training Network Action of Decoloniality (STAND-UGR) research group. During her postdoc, she specialized in Digital Humanities (DH), being PI of the crowdsourcing research project e-xiliad@s (funded twice by the Spanish Ministry in 2009 and 2011), where she developed a research methodology to collect internationally historical unpublished data, at digital level, from the anonymous Spanish republican exiles. This project has received the Asociación de Humanidades Digitales Hispánicas’s award for the best initiative and presence in social networks 2019 through the Premios HDH 2020 call.

She worked in ICT large companies in Ireland (Trend Micro Ltd. and Voxpro Communication Ltd.); she conducted also research and teaching stays in Argentina (UNMDP), Italy (UNITUS, UNIPD), Cuba (CUJAE-UH) and Colombia (UMNG).

Her research lines focus on citizen science in research projects in Humanities, public participation, cultural identities, cultural heritage and exiles. She is currently PI of three research projects and author, co-author and editor of several scientific publications available in open access.

LATEST AWARDS

Best Poster Award: Insights on scholarly primitives from Digital Humanities research in Spain (DARIAH Annual Event 2020: Scholarly Primitives), DARIAH-EU. Digital Research Infraestructure for the Arts and the Humanities (13th November 2020).

Award for Best Participation and Presence in Social Media 2019 – e-xiliad@s Project, Hispanic Digital Humanities Association (6th June 2020).