We are delighted to announce that Dr Katherine McDonough (Lecturer in Digital Humanities, Lancaster University and Senior Research Fellow at the Alan Turing Institute) has been named as part of the new cohort of fellows in the Software Sustainability Institute (SSI).

The SSI Fellowship Programme supports passionate individuals in research and software, empowering them as ambassadors of good practice to shape the future of research software.

During her fellowship, Dr McDonough will be building a community and long-term sustainability plan for MapReader, an award-winning, open-source python library for exploring and analysing map images at scale.

Collectively, the projects delivered by the new cohort of SSI Fellows will boost open-source contributions, upskill GLAM professionals and develop tools for environmental monitoring and historical map digitisation.

As Dr McDonough has also been named as Deputy Theme Lead in Lancaster’s Data Science Institute, she will be in the front line of building digital methods into research and teaching development in History and the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.