Dr Guy Solomon
School of History, Philosophy and Digital Humanities
Lecturer in AI and Digital Humanities
- Profile
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Guy is a Lecturer in AI and Digital Humanities in the Digital Humanities Institute (DHI). His research is interdisciplinary in nature, combining elements of digital humanities, economic and social history, geography, and urban studies.
Prior to joining the DHI in 2024, Guy held academic positions at the University of Glasgow, The Alan Turing Institute and The Open University. He earned his PhD (in History) from the University of Exeter in 2020.
- Research interests
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Guy is generally interested in the application of Artificial Intelligence, machine learning, and computational methods to research in the humanities, particularly (although not exclusively) in relation to geospatial data.
His broader research interests concern the dynamics of urban systems, long term economic and social development, and the role of ‘missingness’ and uncertainty in data analysis. His research background includes the development of tools to aid the linkage of individuals across historic censuses, modelling of inter-city trade in the nineteenth century economy of England and Wales, and contributor biases in Volunteered Geographic Information platforms.
- Teaching interests
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Guy’s teaching interests include Digital Humanities, Artificial Intelligence, digital culture, Geographic Information Systems and geospatial analysis, economic and social history, industrialisation, and economic development.
- Publications
- Solomon, G. S. and Wilson, A. G. (2024) The mesolevel economy in nineteenth-century England and Wales: applying input-output accounting and spatial interaction modelling to the historical study. Complexity, 2024, 3016105.
- Solomon, G. (2022) Work and earning in the nineteenth century: Townley Colliery as a case study. Continuity and Change, 37(3), pp. 335-363.
- Solomon, G., Sutton, D., Polat Kayali, M., Yuan, X., Gardner, Z., and Basiri, A. (2024) Evaluating geotemporal behaviours of OpenStreetMap contributors. In AGILE GIScience Ser., 5, 14.
- Sutton, D., Solomon, G., Yuan, X., Polat Kayali, M., Gardner, Z. and Basiri, A. (2023) Assessing the Relationship Between Socio-Demographic Characteristics and OpenStreetMap Contributor Behaviours. In: 1st ACM SIGSPATIAL International Workshop on Geocomputational Analysis of Socio-Economic Data (GeoSocial 2023), pp. 5-11.
- Rees, G., Solomon, G., Zhang, B. and Wilson, A. (2023) Input-Output Analytics for Urban Systems: Explorations in Policy and Planning. In: 31st Annual Geographical Information Science Research UK Conference (GISRUK2023).