Oscar Seip

Oscar Seip is based in Manchester and joined the Software Sustainability Institute in December 2023 as a Research Community Manager. Originally from the Netherlands, he previously worked within the fields of arts and humanities as an academic researcher and theatre producer. Additionally, Oscar holds the status of Associate Fellowship from Advance Higher Education and acquired several qualifications in software development and project management.

Oscar has a background in the Humanities and obtained a PhD in Italian Studies from the University of Manchester and a MA in Cultural and Intellectual History from the Warburg Institute in London. He also graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a MA in Theatre Studies and a MA in Art and Performance Research Studies. Oscar’s research interests focus on the early modern use of the concept and space of the theatre to gather, organise, and present textual and visual information. 

Oscar is a co-founder of the Manchester Centre for Correspondence Studies and co-organised as part of his Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Bibliotheca Hertziana - Max Planck Institute for Art History in Rome the seminar series Reflections on the Digital Turn in the Humanities and the Sciences. He has given workshops on a number of digital tools and published an article on the value of using 3D modelling and virtual reality in historical research. Finally, Oscar contributed to advisory reports for funders on the Digital Arts and Humanities such as Sustaining Digital Humanities in the UK and Towards a National Research Software Engineering Capability in Arts and Humanities Research: a Roadmap.

Field of expertise: Community and Event Management, Interdisciplinary Collaboration, Historical Methods of Information Management, Digital Arts and Humanities