University College Cork

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.