Research publications

Simon Mahony, (2026). ‘Building Bridges to Achieve Harmony and Greater Prosperity for All: World and World Views’, Reimagining the Humanities: Chinese and Western Perspective. Journal of China-UK Association for the Humanities in Higher Education (Vol. 3) (2025): 175-196. (UCL Discovery).

Li, H., Yan, P., Mahony, S., Tiedau, U., & Vlachidis, A. (2026). 'A Multimodal Dataset of Climate Change Narratives in China and the UK.' Journal of Open Humanities Data, 12: 48, pp. 1–5. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/johd.509. (UCL Discovery) (Open Access).

Mahony, S, (2025). 'Building Bridges and the Ties that Bind: Bringing Us Together but Respecting Our Differences', in Zhou, Lorraine (Ed.). Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2024. Sheffield: The Digital Humanities Institute, 2025. Journal available online at: https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2024 (Open Access) (UCL Discovery) (Publisher's website).

Mahony, S., Gao, J., Crymble, A., Gray, S., & Warwick, C. (2025). 'Empowering global engagement through research and teaching'. Information Matters, Vol. 5, Issue 3. (Open Access) (UCL Discovery) (Publisher's website).

Simon Mahony, Chen Xingyi, & Wang Puyu.(2024). 'Digital Humanities and the Open Agenda' [J]. Digital Humanities Research, 2024, 4(3): 39-46. (Publisher's wepage) (UCL Discovery).

Gao, Jin; Crymble, Adam; Mahony, Simon; Gray, Steven; Warwick, Claire (2024). 'Empowering global engagement: The development of digital humanities research and pedagogy at UCL'. In: Wang, Xiaoguang and Zeng, Marcia Lei and Gao, Jin and Zhao, Ke, (eds) Intelligent Computing for Cultural Heritage: Global Achievements and China's Innovations. (pp. 71-98). Routledge: London, UK. (UCL Discovery). The full volume is available on the publisher's website. (Open Access)

Mahony, S., & Chen, Q. (2024). 'Concerns about the role of artificial intelligence in journalism, and media manipulation'. Journalism, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241263293 ( UCL Discovery).

Gao, J., Nyhan, J., Duke-Williams, O. & Mahony, S. (2023). 'Exploring international collaboration and language dynamics in Digital Humanities: insights from co-authorship networks in canonical journals', Journal of Documentation, Vol. 79 No. 7, pp. 240-260. https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-06-2023-0113 ( UCL Discovery) (Open Access).

Mahony, Simon & Fu, Yaming (2023). 'Digital Humanities and the Library: Research Partners?' In: Dewar, Serena, (ed.) Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2022. The Digital Humanities Institute: Sheffield, UK. (UCL Discovery) (Open Access) https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2022/digital-humanities-and-the-library-research-partners

Liu, Bingjun; Duke-Williams, Oliver; Crymble, Adam; Mahony, Simon (2023). 'Digital Initiatives in Online Service Delivery: Case Study of London Art Museums During the COVID-19 Pandemic Lockdown.' In: Dewar, Serena, (ed.) Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2022. The Digital Humanities Institute: Sheffield, UK. (UCL Discovery) (Open Access) https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2022/digital-initiatives-in-online-service-delivery-case-study-of-london-art-museums-during-the-covid-19-pandemic-lockdown/

Fu, Y., Mahony, S., & Liu, W. (2023). 'Reconstruction of cultural memory through digital storytelling: A case study of Shanghai Memory project.' Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, fqad044. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqad044 (UCL Discovery).

Fu, Y., & Mahony, S. (2023). 'Toward implementing equality, diversity, and inclusion for virtual conferences within the LIS professions.' Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, 0(0). (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1177/09610006231164145 (UCL Discovery).

Mahony, S. (2022). The open agenda: 'Why openness and transparency are needed.' Information Matters, Vol. 2, Issue 5.(Open Access) (UCL Discovery) (Publisher's website).

Mahony, S. (2022). 'Western Classics as part of the Chinese Undergraduate Curriculum.' Institute of Classical Studies. https://ics.sas.ac.uk/blog/western-classics-part-chinese-undergraduate-curriculum (Open Access)

Mahony, S. (2022). 'Toward openness and transparency to better facilitate knowledge creation.' Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1– 15. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24652 (UCL Discovery).

Gao, J., Nyhan, J., Duke-Williams, O. & Mahony, S. (2022). 'Gender influences in Digital Humanities co-authorship networks', Journal of Documentation, Vol. 78 No. 7, pp. 327-350. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1108/JD-11-2021-0221 (UCL Discovery).

Mahony, S. (2021). 'Classical Studies in Mainland China.' Institute of Classical Studies. https://ics.sas.ac.uk/blog/classical-studies-mainland-china (Open Access)

Kamposiori, C., Warwick, C. & Mahony, S. (2021) 'Embedding creativity into digital resources: Improving information discovery for art history', Digital Scholarship in the Humanities, (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/fqab088 (UCL Discovery).

Walsh, J. A., Cobb, P. J., de Fremery, W., Golub, K., Keah, H., Kim, J., Kiplang'at, J., Liu, Y.-H., Mahony, S., Oh, S. G., Sula, C. A., Underwood, T., & Wang, X. (2021). 'Digital humanities in the iSchool.' Journal of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 1– 16. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.1002/asi.24535 (UCL Discovery).

Mahony, S. & Fu, Y. (2021). 'Encouraging Diversity of Dialogue as Part of the iSchools Agenda'. In: Toeppe K., Yan H., Chu S.K.W. (eds) Diversity, Divergence, Dialogue. iConference 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 12646. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71305-8_15 (UCL Discovery).

Mahony, S. (2020). 'Language and the Subjects of Study in the Digital Humanities'. Comparative Literature in China, Shanghai Foreign Studies University; Chinese Comparative Literature Society; ISSN: 1006-6101. DOI:10.16234/j.cnki.cn31-1694/i.2020.01.011 (publishers website) (UCL Discovery).

Mahony, S. (2020). 'The Implementation of UNESCO Memory of the World Material in Academic Teaching', UNESCO Memory of the World, International Advisory Committee, Sub-Committee on Education and Research, SCEaR Newsletter 20 p.29-34. (Open Access)

Kamposiori, C., Warwick, C., & Mahony, S. (2020). 'The Impact of Digitization and Digital Resource Design on the Scholarly Workflow in Art History'. International Journal for Digital Art History, no. 4 (February), 3.11-3.27. (Open Access)  https://doi.org/10.11588/dah.2019.4.52795. (UCL Discovery)

Dunn, S. & Mahony, S. (2019) (Eds) The Digital Classicist 2013. Humanities Digital Library. University of London Press. (Open Access) https://doi.org/10.14296/917.9781905670802 

Loboda, O., Nyhan, J., Mahony, S., Romano, D. M. & Terras, M. (2019). 'Content-based Recommender Systems for Heritage: developing a personalised museum tour', in Proceedings of 1st International 'Alan Turing' Conference on Decision Support and Recommender Systems (DSRS-Turing 2019). London, UK. Available at: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/337428660_Content-based_Recommender_Systems_for_Heritage_Developing_a_Personalised_Museum_Tour 

Mahony, S. & Gao, J. (2019). 'Linguistic and Cultural Hegemony in the Digital Humanities', Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2018, Digital Humanities Institute, University of Sheffield. (Open Access) https://www.dhi.ac.uk/openbook/chapter/dhc2018-mahony (UCL Discovery)

Mahony, S. (2019). 'Review of Analysis of Ancient and Medieval Texts and Manuscripts: Digital Approaches, Brepols 2014'. Varients, The Journal of the European Society for Textual Scholarship 2019:14 https://journals.openedition.org/variants/778 (UCL Discovery)

Franzini, G., Terras, M., & Mahony, S. (2019). 'Digital Editions of Text: Surveying User Requirements in the Digital Humanities', Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage (JOCCH) February 2019 Article No: 1 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3230671. (UCL Discovery)

Kamposiori, C., Warwick, C., & Mahony, S. (2018). 'Accessing and using digital libraries in art history'. Digital Research and Education in Architectural Heritage, 817, 83-101. Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-76992-9_6 (UCL Discovery)

Loboda, O., Nyhan, J., Mahony, S., & Romano, D. (2018) 'Towards evaluating the impact of recommender systems on visitor experience in physical museums'. Proceedings of the 2nd Workshop on Mobile Access to Cultural Heritage co-located with 20th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (Mobile HCI 2018). CEUR. (Open Access) (UCL Discovery)

Mahony, S. (2018 ). 'Cultural Diversity and the Digital Humanities', Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences pp. 1-18. Springer. (Open Access) (UCL Discovery). DOI:https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-018-0216-0

Mahony, S. (2018). 'Reflections on knowledge production within the framework of UK academic institutions' Sagástegui, Diana (Ed). Producción del conocimiento en las sociedades contemporáneas [Knowledge production in contemporary societies], México: Universidad de Guadalajara. (UCL Discovery) Full volume online as PDF on the publisher's website.

Mahony, S, (2017). 'The Digital Classicist: building a Digital Humanities Community', Digital Humanities Quarterly 11:3. Open Access publication. (UCL Discovery).

Gao, J., Duke-Williams, O., Mahony, S., Bold, M. R., & Nyhan, J.(2017). 'The intellectual structure of digital humanities: An author co-citation analysis'. In R. Lewis, C. Raynor, D. Forest,M. Sinatra, & S. Sinclair (Eds.), 12th Annual International Conference of the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, DH 2017. Conference Abstracts. Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO).

Kamposiori, C., Warwick, C., & Mahony, S. (2017). 'Building Personal Collections in Art History'. In: Champion, E., Dallas, C., & Benardou, A. (eds.), Cultural Heritage Digital Tools and Infrastructures. Ashgate, UK. Publisher's website

Bodard, G. & Mahony, S. (Eds) (2016). Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315577210

Steiner, K. and Mahony, S. (2016). 'How are digital methods changing research in the study of the classical world? An EpiDoc case study'. Panta Rei. Revista Digital de Ciencia y Didáctica de la Historia, 125-148.  ISSNe: 2386-8864 DOI: 10.6018/pantarei/2016/8 Open Access Publication. (UCL Discovery)

Mahony, S. (2016). 'Open Education and Open Educational Resources for the Teaching of Classics in the UK'. In: Romanello, M & Bodard, G (eds.) Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement, Pp. 33-50. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat.c. License: CC-BY 4.0. (UCL Discovery) Download from the Publisher's website.

Campagnolo, A, Giacometti, A, MacDonald, L, Mahony, S, Terras, M and Gibson, A. (2016). 'Cultural Heritage Destruction: Experiments with Parchment and Multispectral Imaging'. In: Romanello, M & Bodard, G (eds.) Digital Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Knowledge Exchange & Public Engagement, Pp. 121-146. London: Ubiquity Press. DOI: 10.5334/bat.h . License: CC-BY 4.0. (UCL Discovery) Download from the Publisher's website.

Franzini, G., Mahony, S., and Terras, M. (2016), 'A Catalogue of Digital Editions.' In: Pierazzo, E. and Driscoll, M. J. (eds) Digital Scholarly Editing: Theories and Practices, Open Book Publishers. Download from the Publisher's website.

Mahony, S; Nyhan, J; Terras, M and Tiedau, U (2016) 'Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Integrative Learning and New Ways of Thinking About Studying the Humanities'.In: Clare Mills, Michael Pidd and Jessica Williams. Proceedings of the Digital Humanities Congress 2014. Studies in the Digital Humanities. Sheffield: HRI Online Publications, 2014. (Open Access) https://www.dhi.ac.uk/books/dhc2014/digital-humanities-pedagog.

Giacometti A, Terras MM, Campagnolo A, macdonald L, Mahony S, Robson S, Weyrich T, Gibson A (2015), 'The Value of Critical Destruction: Evaluating Multispectral Image Processing Methods for the Analysis of Primary Historical Texts', Digital Scholarship in the Humanities. Download from the Publisher's website.

Welsh, A., Bikakis, A., Garea Garcia, N., Mahony, S., Inskip, C., & Vogel, M. (2015). 'Work in Progress: the Linked Open Bibliographic Data Project'. Catalogue and Index (178), 15-19. (UCL Discovery)

Julianne Nyhan, Melissa Terras and Simon Mahony (2014). 'Integrative learning and Digital Humanities'. In, Integrative Learning: International Research and Practice, edited by Daniel Blackshields, James Cronin, Bettie Higgs, Shane Kilcommins, Marian McCarthy. Routledge: UK. (UCL Discovery)

Atik Kulaki & Simon Mahony (2014) 'Knowledge Creation and Sharing with Web 2.0 Tools for Teaching and Learning Roles in So-called University 2.0' in Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Volume 150, Pages 648-657. 10th International Strategic Management Conference 2014; publishers PDF.

Anastasia-Yvoni Spiliopoulou, Simon Mahony, Vassilis Routsis, Christina Kamposiori (2014) 'Cultural institutions in the digital age: British Museum's use of Facebook Insights', Participations: Journal of Audience & Reception Studies, Volume11, Issue 1. (UCL Discovery)

Giacometti, A., Campagnolo, A., MacDonald, L., Mahony, S., Terras, M., Robson, S., Weyrich, T., Gibson, A. (2014). Visualising Macroscopic Deterioration of Parchment and Writing via Multispectral Images. In M. Driscoll (Ed.), Care and Conservation of Manuscripts (CCM) conference. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press. (UCL Discovery)

Mahony, S., Tiedau, U. (2013). Should the Digital Humanities be taking a lead in Open Access and Online Teaching Materials? In Digital Humanities 2013: Conference Abstracts (pp.290-292). Lincoln, Nebraska, US University of Nebraska, Center for Digital Research in the Humanities. Publisher's URL

Kamposiori, C., Warwick, C., & Mahony, S. (2013). 'Building Personal Collections: Supporting the Information Practices of Art Historians in the Digital Age', Proceedings of the Cultural Heritage, Creative Tools & Archives Workshop. National Museum of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark, 26 -27 June 2013. Available at http://chcta.wordpress.com/2013/06/26/94/

Stuart Dunn & Simon Mahony (2013) The Digital Classicist 2013. London: BICS Supplement-122 Institute of Classical Studies. Now fully Open Access.

Simon Mahony (2013) 'HumSlides on Flickr: using an online community platform to host and enhance an image collection', in Dunn & Mahony (eds) The Digital Classicist 2013. London: BICS Supplement-122, Institute of Classical Studies. (Open Access)

Mahony, S. (2013). Handbook on Open Data in Education [contributor to]. Open Knowledge Foundation.

• Online version: http://education.okfn.org/handbook/

Simon Mahony & Elena Pierazzo (2013) 'Teaching Skills or Teaching Methodology?', in Hirsch ed. Digital Humanities Pedagogy: Practices, Principles and Politics, Open Book Publishers.

Simon Mahony, Ulrich Tiedau and Irish Sirmons, 'Open access and online teaching materials for digital humanities', in Warwick, Terras, & Nyhan eds. (2012). Digital Humanities in Practice. Facet. Available at: http://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/1310571/. Overview and case studies are available on the blog.

Simon Mahony (2011) 'Research communities and open collaboration: the example of the Digital Classicist wiki', Digital Medievalist 6, available at: https://journal.digitalmedievalist.org/articles/10.16995/dm.26/.

Gabriel Bodard & Simon Mahony eds. (2010) Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity, Ashgate. [Introduction to the volume]

Gabriel Bodard & Simon Mahony eds. (2008) "Though much is taken, much abides": Recovering antiquity through innovative digital methodologies, Digital Classicist special issue, Digital Medievalist 4 (2008).

Simon Mahony (2007) 'Using digital resources in building and sustaining learning communities', Body, Space & Technology Journal, Vol 07/02.
Available at: http://people.brunel.ac.uk/bst/vol0702/simonmahony/