Dr Andrew Richardson

My research focuses on the design and development of exploratory data visualisation tools for the digital humanities and cultural heritage sectors. I create interactive visual interfaces that enable historians, curators and researchers to analyse complex cultural and historical datasets in new ways. My practice integrates creative coding, interface design and collaborative, design-led methods to produce digital research instruments that support interpretive analysis and sector innovation.

I have worked with national partners, including the Science Museum Group, as Data Visualisation Co-Lead for the AHRC-funded Congruence Engine project. My visualisation tools have supported research into industrial history, scientific-instrument networks, oral-history collections and linked-heritage datasets.

My work spans visualisation, digital storytelling and exploratory interfaces across 2D and 3D environments. Previous projects include Chronotopic Cartographies (AHRC), developing spatial visualisations of literary texts, alongside practice-based explorations of immersive and locative media.

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• A New Age for Sonic History: Empowering Audio Heritage to Illuminate the Human Dimension of the Industrial Past, Zardini Lacedelli, S., Butterworth, A., de Sabbata, S., Richardson, A. 13 Feb 2026, Emergent Histories, London, UCL Press
• A village through time: mapping genealogies, occupations and social mobility in Saltaire, Kasthuri Arachch, N., Butterworth, A., Coates, C., Richardson, A., Kent, J. 13 Feb 2026, Emergent Histories, London, UCL Press
• ‘Flow Filter’: Introducing an upstream exploratory visualisation and filtering of large and detailed datasets, Richardson, A., Butterworth, A. 15 Jul 2025, Digital Humanities 2025
• Flow States: Designing Visually Fluid Visualisation Tools for Humanistic Enquiry, Richardson, A., Butterworth, A. 16 Nov 2025, Information+
• Interactive Visualisation Prototypes for Cultural Heritage Collections: Demonstration of Exploratory Visualisation Tools for Cultural Heritage Collections, Richardson, A. 20 Nov 2024, Towards A National Collection Conference 2024
• New Digital Practice for Science and Technology Collections: Technologies and Generative AI for Social-Historical Data Artefacts, Kasthuri Arachch, N., Butterworth, A., Kent, J., Richardson, A. 14 Oct 2024, Artefacts XXIX, 2024
• Oral Histories Timeline Visualisation, Butterworth, A., Richardson, A., Zardini, S., de Sabbata, S., Needham-Simpson, F. Nov 2024
• Saltaire Census Visualisation, Butterworth, A., Richardson, A., Coates, C., Kasthuri Arachch, N., Kent, J. Nov 2024
• Tools for Knowledge: A suite of manipulable data graphics to explore maker and business identity in the historical knowledge graph of the communities of the scientific instrument trade in Britain, 1550–1914, Butterworth, A., Richardson, A. 20 Jul 2023, GrapHNR 2023
• Visualising Time and Space in The Voyage of the Dawn Treader and The Magician’s Nephew, Hay, D., Richardson, A. 31 Mar 2023, In: Literary Geographies

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• Other: Science Museum Group Research & Public History Annual Report (2023–24) 2024
• Invited talk: New Digital Interfaces to Explore Oral Histories. 2024
• Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: Mapping, Counting, Recovering Humanities through the Digital Lens. 2024
• Invited talk: Augmented Literary Landscapes: A Pilot Using Locative Augmented Reality 2020
• Invited talk: The Word Made Visible: Digital Visualisation of Scripture. 2014
• Participating in a conference, workshop, ...: Walking Poet's Symposium 2014

• Stacey Rossouw Growth of a Poet's Mind: Communicating the Temporal Layers within a Literary Archive Start Date: 01/10/2022
• Stacey Rossouw Growth of a Poet's Mind: Communicating the Temporal Layers within a Literary Archive Start Date: 01/10/2022 End Date: 17/10/2025