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Professor Claire Warwick

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MA, MPhil, PhD (Cantab)

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Professor in the Department of English Studies  

Biography

Claire Warwick is a Professor of Digital Humanities in the Department of English at Durham University, having been Pro-Vice-Chancellor: Research 2014- 2019. Before coming to Durham she was Head of UCL Department of Information Studies, and director of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, and began her academic career as a lecturer at Sheffield University’s iSchool. Her PhD, from Cambridge, was in English Literature, followed by a postdoctoral position at Oxford University’s Humanities Computing Unit and Faculty of English.

Her research is concerned with the way that digital resources are used in the humanities and cultural heritage and in reading behaviour in physical and digital spaces. She is also currently completing a monograph on the history of cyberspace, entitled "A World Elsewhere". She has led and co-investigated several digital humanities research projects, for example the INKE project and the QRator project. She collaborates widely, especially with researchers in Canada and the USA and has served on various advisory boards in digital humanities, for example Digital Manuscripts to Europeana (DM2E), and was a member of the Comite Scientifique du Campus Condorcet. She also chaired the international programme committee for the DH2009 conference and gave the closing plenary lecture for DH2016.

She has supervised PhDs on a range of topics in digital humanities, including web comics, digital newspapers, digital novels and digital publishing more generally, and the use of digital techniques, including AI, for museum engagement. She would welcome enquiries from potential PhD students or visiting scholars wishing to work on a topics relevant to the application of digital techniques to literary studies, and to the humanities and cultural heritage more broadly, or to the study of digital phenomena, such as social media or AI. 

Research interests

  • Digital Humanities
  • Digital reading
  • User studies and human computer interaction
  • History of cyberspace
  • Digital cultural heritage studies

Publications

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Conference Paper

  • Kamposiori, K., Warwick, C. & Mahony, S. (2017), Accessing and Using Digital Libraries in Art History, Digital Encounters with Cultural Heritage. Dresden.
  • Bailey-Ross, C, Beresford, A, Smith, D & Warwick, C (2017), Aesthetic Appreciation And Spanish Art: Insights from Eye-Tracking, Digital Humanities 2017. Montreal, Canada, August 8-11
  • Blandford, A., Brown, S., Dobson, T., Faisal, S., Fiorentino, C., Frizzera, L., Giacometti, A., Heller, B., Ilovan, M., Michura, P., Nelson, B., Radzikowska, M., Rockwell, G., Ruecker, S., Sinclair, S., Sondheim, D., Warwick, C. & Windsor, J. (2012), Designing Interactive Reading Environments for the Online Scholarly Edition, Digital Humanities 2012. Hamburg, Germany.
  • Hudson-Smith, A., Gray, S., Ross, C., Barthel, R., De Jode, M., Warwick, C. & Terras, M. (2012), Experiments with the internet of things in museum space: QRator, in Dey, Anind K. & Chu, Hao-Hua eds, UbiComp'12 - 2012 ACM Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. Pittsburgh, PA, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, 1183-1184.
  • Gray, S., Ross, C., Hudson-Smith, A., Warwick, C. & Terras, M. (2012), Enhancing Museum Narratives with the QRator Project: a Tasmanian devil, a Platypus and a Dead Man in a Box, Museums and the Web 2012 (MW2012). San Diego, CA, USA.
  • Williams, S., Terras, M. & Warwick, C. (2012), Do Computer Science Scholars Consider Issues of Privacy when Studying Large Twitter Data Sets?, Asian Privacy Scholars Network, 2nd International Conference, Privacy in the Social Networked World. Tokyo.
  • Gooding, P., Warwick, C. & Terras, M. (2012), The Myth of the New: Mass Digitization, Distant Reading and the Future of the Book, Digital Humanities 2012. Hamburg, Germany.
  • Ross, C., Gray, S., Warwick, C., Hudson-Smith, A. & Terras, M. (2012), Engaging the Museum Space: Mobilising Visitor Engagement with Digital Content Creation, Digital Humanities 2012. Hamburg, Germany.
  • Warwick, C., Mahony, S., Nyhan, J., Ross, C., Terras, M., Tiedau, U. & Welsh, A. (2011), UCLDH: Big Tent Digital Humanities in Practice, Digital Humanities 2011. Stanford, CA, US, Stanford University, 387-389.
  • Siemens, L., Burr, E., Cunningham, R., Forrest, D., Duff, W. & Warwick, C. (2011), A Trip Around the World: Balancing Geographical Diversity in Academic Research Teams, Digital Humanities 2011. Stanford, CA, USA, Stanford University, 226-229.
  • Terras, M., Warwick, C. & Ross, C. (2010), Bridging the gap between users and developers: user centred design of a Virtual Research Environment to support academic collaboration, DRHA 2010 Conference: Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts. London.
  • Hawkins, M., Julier, S., Iliffe, R., Weyrich, T., Terras, M. & Warwick, C. (2010), Digital Historical Research: An Ideal Case Study for Networked Visualisation Research, Visualising Networks: Coping with Change and Uncertainty (IST-093). NATO Science and Technology Organization, RTO-MP-IST-093 AC/323(IST-093)TP/470.
  • Menezes, C., Nonnecke, B., Brown, S., Ruecker, S. & Warwick, C. (2010), VidLog Understading and Visualizing Website Usage through Logfile Analysis, Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) 2010.
  • Taylor, K., Dobson, T., Piquette, K.E., Warwick, C. & INKE Team (2010), Humanists' Use of Digital Technology for Teaching and Research, Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) 2010.
  • Warwick, C., Terras, M., Bulger, M. & De La Flor, G. (2010), Researchers Use of Information resources in the Humanities, Expert Seminar: 'Digital Collections: Use, Value and Impact'. London.
  • Warwick, C. (2010), Luddites or Critics? Designing Useful Digital Resources for Humanities Scholars, Fiesole Collection Development Retreat Series The 12th Fiesole Collection Development Retreat. Leuven, Belgium, Casalini Libri, Leuven.
  • Piquette, K.E., Warwick, C., Dobson, T., Kopak, R., Taylor, K., Galey, A., Duff, W., Monk-Leeson, E. & INKE Team (2010), Reader Experience in Physical and Digital Environments, Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) 2010.
  • Terras, M., Warwick, C. & Fisher, C. (2010), Integrating New Technologies into Established Systems: a case study from Roman Silchester, 37th Annual Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology Conference. Williamsburg, Virginia, USA.
  • Ross, C., Terras, M., Warwick, C. & Welsh, A. (2010), Pointless Babble or Enabled Backchannel: Conference Use of Twitter by Digital Humanists, Digital Humanities 2010. London, Office for Humanities Communication and Centre for Computing in the Humanities, King’s College London, London, 214-217.
  • Siemens, L., Cunningham, R., Duff, W. & Warwick, C. (2009), "It challenges members to think of their work through another kind of specialist's eyes": Exploration of the Benefits and Challenges of Diversity in Digital Project Teams, 2009 ASIS&T Annual Meeting, Thriving on Diversity - Information Opportunities in a Pluralistic World, November 6-11, 2009, Vancouver, BC, Canada. Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
  • Siemens, L., Cunningham, R., Duff, W. & Warwick, C. (2009), “More minds are brought to bear on a problem” Methods of Interaction and Collaboration within Digital Humanities Research Teams, Digital Humanities/Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs will be held in the MacOdrum Library at Carleton University, Ottawa, May 25-27. The MacOdrum Library at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, MacOdrum Library at Carleton University, Ottawa.
  • Siemens, L., Cunningham, R., Duff, W. & Warwick, C. (2009), Training collaborative scholars: Creating space for learning through student involvement in research teams, The Canadian Society for the Study of Higher Education Conference, Carleton University, Ottawa, May, 25-27, 2009. Ottawa.
  • Warwick, C. (2009), Digital Resources in the Humanities and their users, Diversité des pratiques documentaires numériques dans les champs scientifiques. Villeurbanne, Rhône, France, Enssib.
  • Siemens, L., Cunningham, R., Duff, W. & Warwick, C. (2009), "Able To Develop Much Larger and More Ambitious Projects": An Exploration of Digital Projects Teams, DigCCurr 2009: Digital Curation Practice, Promise and Prospects. April 1-3, 2009, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, Chapel Hill NC.
  • Brown, S., Nonnecke, B., Ruecker, S. & Warwick, C. (2009), Studying Orlando's Interfaces, Society for Digital Humanities/Société pour l'étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) 2009, Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, May 25 - 27. MacOdrum Library at Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada, MacOdrum Library at Carleton University, Ottawa.
  • Warwick, C. (2008), Reading and pleasure: humanities scholars and positive experiences of physical and virtual information environments, Models of Partnership in Digital Research, Sheffield University, June 17th 2008. Sheffield, UK, Sheffield Hallam University.
  • Baker, M., Fisher, C., O'Riordan, E., Grove, M., Fulford, M., Warwick, C., Terras, M., Clarke, A. & Rains, M. (2008), VERA: A Virtual Environment for Research in Archaeology, 4th International Conference on e-Social Science, University of Manchester, June 18-20, 2008. Manchester, UK, University of Manchester.
  • Warwick, C., Siemens, R. & Ruecker, S. (2008), Codex Redux: books and new knowledge environments, in Kantor, Paul B., Kazai, Gabriella, Milic-Frayling, Natasa & Wilkinson, Ross eds, International Conference on Information and Knowledge Management (CIKM) 2008 ACM Workshop on Research Advances in Large Digital Book Repositories. Napa Valley, California, USA, Association for Computing Machinery, New York, 29-32.
  • Terras, M., Warwick, C., Fisher, C., Baker, M., Clarke, A., Fulford, M., Grove, M., O'Riordan, E. & Rains, M. (2008), Virtual Environments for Research in Archaeology (VERA): Use and Usability of Integrated Virtual Environments in Archaeological Research, Digital Resources for the Humanities and Arts 2008: New Communities of Knowledge and Practice. University of Cambridge, 14th- 17th September 2008. Cambridge, UK, University of Cambridge.
  • Warwick, C. (2008), ‘Humanities scholars, research and reading, in physical and digital environments’, in Opas-Hänninen, Lisa Lena, Jokelainen, Mikko, Juuso, Ilkka & Seppänen, Tapio eds, Digital Humanities Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 25-29 2008. Oulu, Finland, English Philology, University of Oulu, 32-33.
  • Warwick, C., Terras, M. & Fisher, C. (2008), iTrench: A Study of the Use of Information Technology in Field Archaeology, in Opas-Hänninen, Lisa Lena, Jokelainen, Mikko, Juuso, Ilkka & Seppänen, Tapio eds, Digital Humanities Digital Humanities 2008, University of Oulu, Finland, June 25-29 2008. Oulu, Finland, English Philology, University of Oulu, Oulu, 218-220.
  • Fisher, C., Warwick, C. & Terras, M. (2008), Digital archaeology: excavating user needs for archaeological systems, World Archaeological Congress (WAC) World Archaeological Congress 6 (WAC-6), Dublin, Ireland, 29th June - 4th July 2008. Dublin, Ireland, University College Dublin.
  • Blandford, A., Gow, J., Buchanan, G., Warwick, C. & Rimmer, J. (2007), Creators, composers and consumers: Experiences of designing a digital library, in Baranauskas, C., Palanque, P., Abascal, J. & Barbosa, S.D.J. eds, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 4662 4662: Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2007: 11th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, September 10-14, 2007, Proceedings, Part I. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Springer, 239-242.
  • Buchanan, G., Gow, J., Blandford, A., Rimmer, J. & Warwick, C. (2007), Representing aggregate works in the digital library, in Rasmussen, E., Larson, R.R., Toms, E. & Sugimoto, S. eds, Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE Joint Conference on Digital Libraries Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, June 18-23, 2007 building & sustaining the digital environment: JCDL 2007. Vancouver, British Columbia, ACM Press, Vancouver, British Columbia, 247-256.

Conference Proceeding

  • Warwick, C., Terras, M., Galina, I., Huntington, P. & Pappa, N. (2007). Evaluating Digital Humanities Resources: The LAIRAH Project Checklist and the Internet Shakespeare Editions Project. Openness in Digital Publishing: Awareness, Discovery and Access - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Electronic Publishing – Vienna, Austria – June 2007, Vienna, Austria, ELPUB.
  • Shepherd, E., Terras, M. & Warwick, C. (2007). UCL SLAIS: Research and Expertise in Digital Curation. UCL Digital Curation Day, 16th January 2007, University College London, London, UK.
  • Warwick, C., Terras, M., Huntington, P., Pappa, N. & Galina, I. (2007). The Master Builders: LAIRAH Research on Good Practice in the Construction of Digital Humanities Projects. Digital Humanites 2007: The 19th joint international conference of the Association for Computing in the Humanities and the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing. University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, June 4-8, 2007, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, US, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, University of Illinois.
  • Fisher, C., Terras, M. & Warwick, C. (2007). User Engagement Research. 1st VRE2 programme meeting, University of Reading, 29th November 2007, University of Reading, Reading, UK.
  • Pappa, N., Warwick, C., Terras, M. & Huntington, P. (2006). The (In)visibility of Digital Humanites Resources in Academic Contexts. Digital Humanities 2006: The First ADHO International Conference, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, Centre de Recherche Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information, Université Paris-Sorbonne.
  • Rimmer, J., Warwick, C., Blandford, A., Gow, J. & Buchanan, G. (2006). User Requirements for Humanities Digital Libraries. Digital Humanities 2006: The First ADHO International Conference, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, Centre de Recherche Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information, Université Paris-Sorbonne.
  • Warwick, C. (2006). Users as Partners. Partnerships in Humanities Computing, Sheffield Hallam University, June 28 2006, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK.
  • Blandford, A., Rimmer, J. & Warwick, C. (2006). Experiences of the library in the digital age. 3rd International Conference “Cultural Convergence and Digital Technology”, 23-25 November 2006, Hellenic Cosmos, Tavros, Athens, Greece.
  • Haswell, E., Driscoll, M.J. & Warwick, C. (2006). Towards a Union Catalogue of XML-Encoded Manuscript Descriptions. Digital Humanities 2006: The First ADHO International Conference, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, Centre de Recherche Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information, Université Paris-Sorbonne.
  • Warwick, C., Terras, M., Huntington, P. & Pappa, N. (2006). If you build it will they come? The LAIRAH study: quantifying the use of online resources in the Arts and Humanities through statistical analysis of user log data. Digital Humanities 2006: The First ADHO International Conference, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, Centre de Recherche Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information, Université Paris-Sorbonne.
  • Warwick, C., Buchanan, G., Rimmer, J., Blandford, A. & Gow, J. (2006). Code, comments and consistency, a case study of the problems of reuse of encoded texts. Digital Humanities 2006: The First ADHO International Conference, Université Paris-Sorbonne, Paris, France, Centre de Recherche Cultures Anglophones et Technologies de l’Information, Université Paris-Sorbonne.
  • Warwick, C. (2006). A Dubious Legacy: Problems of the re-use of data for digital humanities research. Oxford Text Archive at 30 (1976-2006) Conference/Celebration, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
  • Rimmer, J., Warwick, C., Blandford, A., Gow, J. & Buchanan, G. (2006). Information seeking in the Humanities: physicality and digitality. Physicality 2006 first International Workshop on Physicality, Lancaster University, UK, 6-7 February 2006 position papers, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK, Lancaster University.
  • Buchanan, G., Gow, J., Blandford, A., Rimmer, J. & Warwick, C. (2006). Representing aggregate works in the digital library. Research and advanced technology for digital libraries 10th European conference, ECDL 2006, Alicante, Spain, September 17-22, 2006 proceedings, Alicante, Spain, Springer.
  • Rimmer, J., Warwick, C., Blandford, A., Gow, J. & Buchanan, G. (2006). Humanities Scholars' Information-seeking Behaviour and Use of Digital Resources. Proceedings of the Digital Libraries in the Context of Users' Broader Activities First International Workshop, DL-CUBA 2006 Chapel Hill, USA, June 15, 2006, Chapel Hill, NC, USA, UCL Interaction Centre (UCLIC), University College London.
  • Warwick, C. (2006). "And bring your reading to its proper use" Reading and its uses in humanities research. Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) Book Research Meeting. University of British Columbia, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada.
  • Warwick, C., Terras, M., Huntington, P., Pappa, N. & Galina, I. (2006). What's in a name? Measuring use and non-use of Digital Resources in the Arts and Humanities through Log Analysis Techniques. Digital Resources in the Humanities and Arts, Dartington College of Arts, 3-6 September, Totnes, Devon, UK.
  • Warwick, C., Blandford, A. & Buchanan, G. (2005). User Centred Interactive Search: a Study of Humanities Researchers in a Digital Library Environment. ACH/ALLC 2005 The International Conference on Humanities Computing and Digital Scholarship: The 17th Joint International Conference University of Victoria June 15 - June 18, 2005, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria.
  • Daneker, I. & Warwick, C. (2005). A la Carte Schema: A Case Study Comparison of the Application of DTDs and XML Schema to the Carte Calendar Project Template. The Association for Computers and the Humanities-Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing, University of Victoria, Canada, June 15 - June 18, University of Victoria, Victoria BC, Canada.
  • Buchanan, G., Cunningham, S.J., Blandford, A., Rimmer, J. & Warwick, C. (2005). Information seeking by humanities scholars. Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries 9th European conference, ECDL 2005, Vienna, Austria, September 18-23, 2005 proceedings, Vienna, Austria, Springer.
  • Haswell, E., Warwick, C. & Driscoll, M. (2005). A Web-Based Catalogue of TEI-Encoded Manuscript Descriptions Using a Native XML Database. CaSTA 2005, University of Alberta, 3-7 October 2005, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.
  • Warwick, C., Rimmer, J., Blandford, A. & Buchanan, G. (2005). User centred interactive search in the humanities. Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE-CS joint conference on Digital libraries, Denver, CO, USA, ACM Press.
  • Schreibman, S., Siemens, R., Unsworth, J., McCarty, W., Smith, M.N., Rockwell, G., Smith, A., Warwick, C. & Willett, P. (2005). The Blackwell Companion to Digital Humanities: a Roundtable Discussion. ACH/ALLC 2005 The International Conference on Humanities Computing and Digital Scholarship: The 17th Joint International Conference University of Victoria June 15 - June 18, 2005, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada, Humanities Computing and Media Centre, University of Victoria.
  • Warwick, C. (2004). No such thing as Humanities Computing? An analytical history of digital resource creation and computing in the humanities. ALLC/ACH 2004 Joint International Conference of the Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computers and the Humanities, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, June 11 - 16, 2004, University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
  • Warwick, C. (2004). Whose funeral? A case study of computational methods and reasons for their use or neglect in English literature. CaSTA 2004 - The Face of Text, Computer Assisted Text Analysis in the Humanities, Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis November 19 - 21, 2004 McMaster University, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.
  • Warwick, C., Lindsay, K. & Lee, S.D. (2002). Conflict Resolution and the Battle of Maldon: a Practical study of the combination of Hypertext, Usability and Literary theories. Digital Resources in the Humanities. University of Edinburgh, September 8-11 2002, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
  • Warwick, C. & Meckseper, C. (2002). Excavating a Resource: The Electronic Dissemination of Archaeological Grey Literature Using XML and TEI. Elpub2002, Technology Interactions. The 6th International ICCC/IFIP Conference on Electronic Publishing, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic 6-8 November, Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, Verlag für Wissenschaft und Forschung.
  • Seal, J., Girdlestone, M. & Warwick, C. (2001). Querying keywords: analysis of a survey to look at on-line research methods of the actual and potential users of the Perdita Project. Digital Evidence: Selected papers from DRH2000, Digital Resources for the Humanities conference, University of Sheffield, September 2000, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK, Office for Humanities Communication.
  • Warwick, C. & Carty, C. (2001). Only Connect, a Study of the Problems caused by platform specificity and researcher isolation in humanities computing. Electronic publishing '01 2001 in the digital publishing odyssey proceedings of an ICCC/IFIP conference held at the University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, United Kingdom, 5-7 July, 2001, University of Kent at Canterbury, Kent, UK, IOS Press.
  • Seal, J., Warwick, C. & Clarke, E. (2000). Perdita's Progress: Raising Standards in a TEI-based Approach to Cataloguing Early Modern Manuscripts. ALLC/ACH 2000 Conference, University of Glasgow 21 - 25 July, 2000, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
  • Warwick, C. (2000). Technophobes, or the Nintendo generation? A study of the use of ICT in teaching and learning in Modern Languages. ALLC/ACH 2000 Conference, University of Glasgow 21 - 25 July, 2000, University of Glasgow, Glasgow, Scotland, UK.
  • Warwick, C. (1999). English literature, electronic text, and computer analysis: An impossible combination?. ACH/ALLC 1999 Conference. University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, June 9-13, 1999, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA, University of Virginia, Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities.
  • Warwick, C. (1999). The lowest canonical denominator: Electronic literary texts, and their publication, collection and preservation. New fields for Research in the 21st Century: Proceedings of the 3rd British-Nordic Conference on Library and Information Studies. 12-14 April 1999, Borås, Sweden, Borås, Sweden, The Swedish School of Library and Information Studies University College of Borås.
  • Warwick, C. (1997). Using the British National Corpus. Educational Technology for Language Learning, 7 CTI Centre for Modern Languages and Aston University February 5-6 1997, Aston University, Birmingham, UK.
  • Warwick, C. (1997). The British National Corpus. Digital Resources for the Humanities, Conference St Anne's College Oxford, 14th-17th September 1997, St Anne's College, Oxford, UK.
  • Burnard, L., Warwick, C. & Aston, G. (1997). The SARA Software package and the BNC. 18th ICAME Conference, Chester, 21-25 May 1997, Chester, England, UK.

Edited book

  • Warwick, C., Terras, M. & Nyhan, J. (2012). Digital Humanities in Practice. London: Facet Publishing Facet Publishing in association with UCL Centre for Digital Humanities.

Journal Article

Newspaper/Magazine Article

  • Jha, Alok (Published). Google creates a tool to probe 'genome' of English words for cultural trends. The Guardian Thursday 16 December 2010 19.00 GMT.

Other (Print)

  • Warwick, C. (Published). Interview with Claire Warwick at DH2010.
  • Warwick, C. (2012). Inaugural Lecture. The monologue in a crowdsourced world: have digital resources rendered the inaugural lecture obsolete?

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Supervision students

Ellen Charlesworth

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