Researcher

Sytze Van Herck

Research disciplines
  • Humanities and the arts
    • Business and labour history
    • Medieval history
    • Modern and contemporary history
    • Public history
    • Regional and urban history
    • Socio-economic history
    • History of science
    • Collections heritage
    • Digitisation of cultural heritage
    • Human-centred design
  • Social sciences
    • Knowledge management
    • Family and household studies
    • Sociology of gender and gender relations
    • Sociology of occupations and professions
Expertise
Digital Humanities History of Technology
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Bio
Dr. Sytze Van Herck is the project lead for Madoc and Omeka S projects at Ghent Centre for Digital Humanities (GhentCDH) since 2024. She is interested in digital research methods and enjoys building bridges between users and developers, between academia and a broader audience. She specializes in translating digital processes to human-centered language and prefers learning through experimenting. She previously worked on linking the Dutch Civil Registry as a postdoc for CLARIAH-NL (WP4, 2022-2024). Her PhD in Digital History (C2DH, University of Luxembourg, 2022) titled Re/constructing Computing Experiences combined media archaeology, user experience design, and visual discourse analysis. Her interest in gender and technology stems from her MSc in Digital Humanities (KULeuven, 2017) with a thesis on Visualising Gender Balance. Before moving to contemporary history, she studied medieval marriage strategies in an urban context for her MA History (KULeuven, 2015).