Hammond, Dr Matthew

Biography

I conducted my PhD work at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of now Prof Dauvit Broun, completing in 2005. Building on the prosopographical approach adopted in my thesis, Broun and I worked together to create the People of Medieval Scotland database and website (www.poms.ac.uk) , which was first launched in 2010 and has since attracted more than 70,000 unique users worldwide. After three years as a Lecturer in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, I worked again with Prof Broun, successfully obtaining funding from the Leverhulme Trust to apply Social Network Analysis techniques to the ‘PoMS’ database, extensive results of which are now available on the website. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and former council member of the Scottish History Society and the Scottish Medievalists, I have published extensively on digital humanities and prosopography, charters and diplomatic, aristocratic society, and personal names. I conducted my PhD work at the University of Glasgow under the supervision of now Prof Dauvit Broun, completing in 2005. Building on the prosopographical approach adopted in my thesis, Broun and I worked together to create the People of Medieval Scotland database and website (www.poms.ac.uk) , which was first launched in 2010 and has since attracted more than 70,000 unique users worldwide. After three years as a Lecturer in Medieval Scottish History at the University of Edinburgh, I worked again with Prof Broun, successfully obtaining funding from the Leverhulme Trust to apply Social Network Analysis techniques to the ‘PoMS’ database, extensive results of which are now available on the website. A Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and former council member of the Scottish History Society and the Scottish Medievalists, I have published extensively on digital humanities and prosopography, charters and diplomatic, aristocratic society, and personal names.

Research Interest

Digital Humanities and prosopography; Medieval charters and diplomatic; Aristocratic networks and social network analysis; Anthroponymy and surnames; Medieval ethnic, national, and other identities.