DHA2025: Congratulations to our Bursary Recipients!

Congratulations to our bursary recipients who will be joining us at DHA2025!

Julianne Bell Australian National University

Julianne Bell is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University with an interest in applying data driven, digital research techniques to humanities and social sciences (HASS) projects. Her PhD project developed the first comprehensive digital publication of plastic focused collection survey results coordinated from seven national museums and galleries.

Dylan Chng Australian National University

Dylan Chng is a PhD candidate at the Australian National University developing a thesis that proposes to transhistoricise critical notions of digital literary aesthetics by deconstructing their underlying intellectual structures. Their thesis reflects broader research interests in digital phenomena, creativity, affective dynamics, and philosophies of technology. Their thesis argues that many digital concepts are historically human ways of interfacing with information which is now reflexively re-presented through the paradigms of digital computing.

Ashley Grace Dennis-Henderson University of Adelaide

Ashley Dennis-Henderson is a PhD candidate in Applied Mathematics and Statistics and a Lecturer in Mathematics at the University of Adelaide. Her PhD project focuses on how we can analyse Australian World War I diaries and letters using mathematical and computational techniques. Her research interests include natural language processing, optimisation, network analysis, digital humanities, and historical textual analysis.

Mohamed W Fareed University of Adelaide

Mohamed W. Fareed is a PhD candidate at the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, where he is completing his doctoral thesis titled “Data to Action: Developing Human-Centered AI Tools for Climate-Responsive Urban Heritage Management,” under the supervision of Associate Professor Scott Hawken, starting from September 2025.

Jasper Harrington University of Melbourne

Jasper Harrington is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. His thesis Ulexis is interested in the lexical novelty of Ulysses by James Joyce. Using R, his thesis aims to create an interactive, digital resource which collates and organises the eccentric lexicon of Ulysses into formal categories, which can be consulted by scholars for decades to come.

Kameron Lai University of Melbourne

Kameron Lai is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. His research realtes to speculative fiction and transcultural imaginations of futurity, examining contemporary Science Fiction and its ethical and political horizons. He grounds his project in the tensions between decolonial and anticolonial negotiations of spatiality, and sets out to examine the question of solidarity of stolen land, and what projects of futurities can tell us about transcultural ethics today.

Liliana Mansergh University of Melbourne

Liliana Mansergh is a PhD Candidate at the University of Melbourne. Her research examines the nexus between literature and the cryosphere with a focus on how English literature - from the nineteenth century onwards - contains the concept of the ice archive.

Dr. Lucie O’Brien University of Melbourne

Dr. Lucie O’Brien is an Early Career Researcher at the University of Melbourne. Her current project is an innovative interdiscplinary study of bankruptcy law, legal history and law, and humanities research. Their research interweaves legal history with literary criticism, and uses works of fiction to illustrate bankruptcy’s changing social, political, and moral signifiance in Australia from the mid-1800s to the early twentieth century.

Dr. Jackson Payne Monash University

Dr. Jackson Payne is an Early Career Researcher at Deakin University. Their work spans the disciplines of creative writing, literary theory, and critical AI studies, with a particular interest in the relationship between narratology and machine-generated language. Their current research investigates large language models (LLMs) such as ChatGPT through the lens of narratology with an aim to understanding how narratology can help assess the ways this unregulated technology impacts its users.

Tiako Djomatchoua Murielle Sandra Princeton University

Tiako Djomatchoua Murielle Sandra is a doctoral candidate at Princeton University. Her research examines the intersection of African arts, heritages, traditions, institutions, memory, and legacy through the lenss of female architectures of power and powerlessness. She primarily investigates the intricate interplay of power, memory, gender, and change within the context of Luba societies.

Karen M Thompson University of Melbourne

Karen M Thompson is a Senior Research Data Specialist at the Melbourne Data Analytics Platform (MDAP) at the University of Melbourne. She has a passion for data organisation, communication, and working at the intersection of data and cultural collections.

Katerina Undo KU Leuven and the University of Melbourne

Katerina Undo is a PhD Candidate (joint scholarship) at KU Leuven and the University of Melbourne. Her current PhD research stages the body as a site of transmutation - both container and agent of change. It deepens this inquiry by proposing an experiential method of human-AI co-creation in response to (un)livable climates.