Lise Jaillant is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies (School of Advanced Study, University of London). She previously worked as Professor of Digital Cultural Heritage in the School of Social Sciences & Humanities at Loughborough University, UK. From 2013 to 2016, she held positions at Newcastle University, the University of East Anglia and the University of Manchester.
Lise grew up in France and studied sociology at Sciences-Po Paris (one of the prestigious "grandes écoles"). She then did an MA (Distinction) in Modern and Contemporary Literature at Birkbeck, University of London, and a PhD in English at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver.
Lise has expertise on born-digital archives and the issues of preservation and access to these archives. From 2020, she was UK PI for four AHRC-funded projects on Archives and Artificial Intelligence. These international projects aimed to make digitised and born-digital archives more accessible to researchers, and to use innovative research methods such as AI to analyse archival data.
Lise enjoys working across sectors and disciplines. As a digital humanist, she has extensive experience of collaborating with computer scientists, archivists, librarians, and government professionals to unlock digital archival data with innovative technologies.
Picture: Lise's first book on open shelves at the Bibliothèque Nationale de France
