Kate is Programme Convenor for the MSc in Digital Humanities situated within Information Studies. She is the expert Curatorial Advisor at, and Trustee of, the David Livingstone Birthplace Trust. Kate’s research interests are in imperial adventure fiction; digital cultural creation and curation; 19th century European travel in, and writing on, Sub-Saharan Africa and India; postcolonial fiction and film; and digital societies. Her recent research explores ways to tell stories about the people involved in nineteenth century British travel in southern Africa. Her current book project entitled The Poetics of Objects in Museum Collections: Belongings and Belonging engages with what have come to be “British artefacts”, to explore the opposing representations of cultural moments as they are presented in entities held in British museums.