Research Profile

Biography

Shawn Day blends the aesthetic and informative as an entrepreneur, digital historian, economist.

Raised in Canada, he is a Lecturer in Digital Humanities at University College Cork and also pursuing research with the  School of Geography, also at UCC.

In the past few years, he has lectured at Queen's University Belfast, University College Dublin, M<aynooth University and Trinity College Dublin, fostering Irish scholarship in Digital and Medical Humanities and Social Computing.

His personal research explores the cultural geography of craft beer in Ireland. He has investigated the social and economic circumstances of the nineteenth century retail liquor trade and its impact on the Canadian family. He applies digital, spatial and social network analysis to the relationships between credit, respectability, and order in the Victorian community. Recent articles have examined the social dimensions of the Victorian public mental hospital using GIS and statistical modeling tools.

Shawn has been involved in a number of successful and innovative digital humanities projects. These include building a digital humanities community (Digital Humanities Observatory/Royal Irish Academy), the Network for Digital Methods in the Humanities (NeDiMAH) in the Dariah Project,large manuscript census databases in the 1871/1891 census project (University of Guelph), the national TAPoR text analysis portal project, the Canadian Network for Economic History (CNEH) and the Network for Canadian History and the Environment (NiCHE).

Shawn has blended his background in management economics and digital history with an entrepreneurial ethos to found a number of successful software development ventures in Canada and bringing this experience to academic pursuits.

Research Interests

  • Cultural Geography of Irish Craft Beer
  • 19th Century Economic HIstory
  • Spatial Humanities
  • History of Health and Medicine
  • Information Visualisation
  • Canadian Social History
  • Candian Business History

Publications

Peer Reviewed Journals

 YearPublication
(2008)'A Janus-Like Asylum: The City and the Institutional Confinement of the Mentally Ill in Victorian Ontario'
Wright, David; Day, Shawn; Smith, Jessica; Flis, Nathan (2008) 'A Janus-Like Asylum: The City and the Institutional Confinement of the Mentally Ill in Victorian Ontario'. Urban History Review-Revue D Histoire Urbaine, 36 (2):43-53   [DOI] [Details]
(2007)'Distancing the mad: Jarvis's Law and the spatial distribution of admissions to the Hamilton Lunatic Asylum in Canada, 1876-1902'
Smith, Christopher A; Wright, David; Day, Shawn. (2007) 'Distancing the mad: Jarvis's Law and the spatial distribution of admissions to the Hamilton Lunatic Asylum in Canada, 1876-1902'. Social Science and Medicine, 64 (11):2362-2385   [Details]

Professional Activities

Professional Associations

 AssociationFunctionFrom / To
Canadian Network for Economic History Coordinator21-OCT-03 /
Institute for Collaborative Research in the Humanities DH Strategist02-SEP-13 / 27-MAY-16
European Health Futures Forum Director04-APR-12 /
Open Knowledge Foundation Ireland Director15-OCT-13 /
Network in Canadian History of the Environmenta Web Coordinator04-JAN-07 / 22-MAY-08
Network for Digital Methods in the Arts and Humanities (NeDIMAH) Co-Chair WG1 Spatial and Temporal Representation01-JAN-12 /
Association for Information Systems Member05-MAR-09 /

Conference Contributions

 YearPublication
(2017)Improving Research Integrity and Reproducibility through Openness and Transparency,
Day, Shawn (2017) FAIR Data Principles. [Invited Lectures (Conference)], Improving Research Integrity and Reproducibility through Openness and Transparency, UCC , 23-OCT-17 - 23-OCT-17. [Details]

Committees

 CommitteeFunctionFrom / To
CACSSS Community Engagement Delegate2018 /

Employment

 EmployerPositionFrom / To
Royal Irish Academy Project Manager01-JUL-08 / 15-SEP-13
Ardesic Corporation Founder and VP R&D01-JAN-97 / 30-MAY-01
McMaster University Research Assistant01-SEP-04 / 30-JUN-08

Education

 YearInstitutionQualificationSubject
2004University of Guelph MAHistory
1988University of Guelph Specialised Hons BAManagement Economics

Other Activities

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Teaching Activities

Teaching Interests

  • Information Visualisation
  • Social Computing
  • Digital Humanities
  • Social History
  • Economic History

Modules Taught

 Term (ID))TitleLinkSubject
2020Digital Tools and Methodologies 1 DH1002Digital Tools and Methodologies 1
2020Digital Humanities Institute DH6003Digital Humanities Institute
2020History and Theory of Digital Arts DH6005History and Theory of Digital Arts
2020Humanities and New Technologies: Tools and Methodologies DH6024Humanities and New Technologies: Tools and Methodologies
2020Humanities and New Technologies: Tools and Methodologies DH6034Humanities and New Technologies: Tools and Methodologies
2020Humanities and New Technologies: Tools and Methodologies DH6110Humanities and New Technologies: Tools and Methodologies
2020Research Project DH4003Research Project
2020Humanities and New Technologies: Tools and Methodologies DH6010Humanities and New Technologies: Tools and Methodologies
2020Work Placement DH3003Work Placement
2020Digital Tools and Methodologies II DH2002Digital Tools and Methodologies II

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External Collaborators

 NameOrganisation / InstituteCountry
Professor Kris Inwood Canadian Network for Economic HistoryCANADA
Prof John Thompson Institute for Collaborative Research in the HumanitiesUNITED KINGDOM
Dr David Somekh European Health Futures ForumUNITED KINGDOM
Professor Leif Isaaksen NeDIMAHUNITED KINGDOM

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