Current Position(s)
Research disciplines
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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
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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
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).