PhD Candidate, School of History, Trinity College Dublin
Cydney Thompson is a final year PhD student at Trinity College Dublin in the School of History, doing interdisciplinary research with the Digital Humanities. She is a 2018 graduate of the TCD MPhil in Public History and Cultural Heritage, and has a decade of experience working with cultural heritage institutions around the world, including the Chester Beatty, the National Gallery of Ireland, and Trinity College Libraries. She is currently the volunteer archivist for the Dublin Lesbian Line. She specialises in digitisation, digital archiving, and digital exhibition design. Her research examines use and reuse of digitised cultural heritage materials, like the Hesitant Bride, by examining classical art memes and their development and function on social media. Her research is funded by Trinity College Dublin, and she is an early career researcher in the Trinity Long Room Hub, an interdisciplinary research office.
Electricity from farm waste: how biogas could help Malawians with no power
What the Supreme Court is doing right in considering Trump’s immunity case
US student Gaza protests: five things that have been missed
Will Solomon Islands’ new leader stay close to China?
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects