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Personal Details Form - Elzbieta Majocha

Title Dr
First name Elzbieta
Last name Majocha
Discipline / Department School of Humanities
Institution University of Western Australia
Highest qualification PhD (Edinburgh, UK)
Date of qualification 2006
Email address elam at cyllene dot uwa dot edu dot au
Web address  
Telephone +61 8 6488 2186
Fax +61 8 6488 1069
Mailing address School of Humanities (M208)
University of Western Australia
35 Stirling Highway
Crawley WA 6009
Australia
Thesis topic (for postgraduates)  
Current research interests
  • Uptake of ICT in the Humanities.
  • Management and behaviour of on-line research communities, such as NEER Confluence (guess why (:  !?).
  • Historical linguistics, esp. of English, Middle English geographical/linguistic variation, use of onomstic data (place names) in English historical linguistics.
  • Electronic tools for analysis of linguistic variation: digitisation of sources of Middle English from printed sources and from manuscripts, building corpora, mapping of linguistic data with GIS software, use of Open Source applications.
  • Semantic web.
Past research interests PhD in English historical linguistics; thesis topic: Early Middle English (c. 1100-1300) geographical/linguistic variation from onomastic data (place names).
Publications "Building e-Research Infrastructures for Collaboration in Humanities Research Networks"; with Toby Burrows
(refereed paper in the proceedings from APAC 2007 Conference (Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing).
Recent grants 2008-09, with Prof. Philippa Maddern, Learning and Teaching Performance Fund Initiative (from FAHSS at UWA) to develop a new Masters course for online delivery; project title: "Reading the e-Medieval; a new template for online learning".
Other relevant information Member of the ARC Network in Human Communication Science (HCSNet) 
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