Deb Verhoeven

Deb Verhoeven is Canada 150 Research Chair in Gender and Cultural Informatics at the University of Alberta. Before this she was Associate Dean of Engagement and Innovation at the University of Technology in Sydney. Deb is one of the world’s leading proponents of Digital Humanities research. Among her many accolades, she was named Australia’s Most Innovative Academic in 2013. Deb was the inaugural Project Director of the Humanities Networked Infrastructure project (2012-19), a virtual laboratory interoperating data from Australia’s major cultural collections. She is the Director of the Kinomatics Initiative, a global investigation of big cultural data with a particular focus on the film industry. She serves on the inaugural board of NDRIO and from 2011-2014, she was Deputy Chair of the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. She has previously served on the boards of the Victorian eResearch Strategic Initiative (VeRSI) and the Tasmanian government’s Digital Futures Advisory Council.