Dr Javier Pereda
Liverpool School of Art and Design
Faculty of Arts Professional and Social Studies
Email: J.Pereda@ljmu.ac.uk
Telephone: 0151 904 1972
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I am a Senior Lecturer in Graphic Design and Illustration and the Decolonising the Curriculum academic representative for the School of Art and Design. I am also the Senior Researcher for Towards a National Collection (UKRI-AHRC), a £19 million national initiative that leverages digital technology to create a unified collection of the UK’s museums, libraries, galleries, and archives (GLAMs), aiming to maintain global leadership in digital humanities and art research.
Past projects include Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Indigenous and Spanish American Historical Collections (AHRC-NEH). This project seeks to lower these barriers by introducing artificial intelligence (AI) technologies into representative Indigenous and Spanish colonial archives in Mexico and the U.S. and training them to convert the "unreadable" archive into worldwide accessible data. The project revolutionises how cultural institutions offer access to colonial collections and how humanities researchers can undertake cutting-edge digital scholarship.
I am a member of the Europeana Tech group and the International Committee for Museology of the International Council of Museums (ICOFOM-ICOM).
Degrees
University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom, PhD, Web Science
University of Southampton, United Kingdom, MSc, Web Science
Southampton Solent University, United Kingdom, MA, Multimedia Production
Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom, PG Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education
Universidad de la Comunicación, Mexico, PG Certificate in Creative Visualisation
Universidad Tecnológica de México, Mexico, BA, Graphic Design
Highlighted publications
Pereda J, Willcox P, Candela G, Sanchez A, Murrieta-Flores P. 2025. Online Cultural Heritage as Social Machine: A Socio-Technical Approach to Digital Infrastructure and Ecosystems International Journal of Digital Humanities, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Bailey RA, Pereda J, Michaels C, Callahan T. 2024. Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Pereda J, Murrieta Flores P, Sanchez A. 2024. Unlocking Nahua Cosmovision through Machine Learning Transnational Island Museologies, Materials for discussion, ICOM & ICOFOM 47th Annual Assembly :58-62 Publisher Url Public Url
Candela G, Pereda J, Saez D, Escobar P, Sanchez A, Villa Tores A, Palacios AA, McDonough K, Murrieta-Flores P. 2023. An ontological approach for unlocking the Colonial Archive Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16 :1-18 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Pereda J, Murrieta-Flores PA, Radburn N, South L, Monaghan C. 2020. Afrobits: An interactive installation of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade Electronic Workshops in Computing, Proceedings of EVA London 2020 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Pereda J. 2017. Exploración del Patrimonio Cultural a través de Interfaces Tangibles en la Red Jiménez-Badillo D. Arqueología Computacional. Nuevos enfoques para el análisis y la difusión del patrimonio cultural. 1 :265-283 INAH. Mexico City 978-607-539-027-7 Author Url
Journal article
Pereda J, Willcox P, Candela G, Sanchez A, Murrieta-Flores P. 2025. Online Cultural Heritage as Social Machine: A Socio-Technical Approach to Digital Infrastructure and Ecosystems International Journal of Digital Humanities, DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Candela G, Pereda J, Saez D, Escobar P, Sanchez A, Villa Tores A, Palacios AA, McDonough K, Murrieta-Flores P. 2023. An ontological approach for unlocking the Colonial Archive Journal on Computing and Cultural Heritage, 16 :1-18 DOI Publisher Url Public Url
Torrico Avila E, Flores Muñoz J, Pereda J, González Gonzáles JA, López Meraz . 2021. Latin American Young Researchers and the Academic Labour Market Employment. A Case Study Analysis Education Magazine (Inquiries Series), 1 :117-127 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Fray H, Pereda J. 2019. Conductive Circuits Printmaking Today, Publisher Url Public Url
Pereda J, Murrieta-Flores P. 2011. The role of Lucha Libre in the construction of Mexican male identity Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA Postgraduate Network, 4 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Report
Bailey RA, Pereda J, Michaels C, Callahan T. 2024. Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action Unlocking the Potential of Digital Collections. A call to action DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Conference publication
Pereda J, Murrieta Flores P, Sanchez A. 2024. Unlocking Nahua Cosmovision through Machine Learning Transnational Island Museologies, Materials for discussion, ICOM & ICOFOM 47th Annual Assembly :58-62 Publisher Url Public Url
Pereda J, Murrieta-Flores PA, Radburn N, South L, Monaghan C. 2020. Afrobits: An interactive installation of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade Electronic Workshops in Computing, Proceedings of EVA London 2020 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Pereda J. 2019. A TUI to Explore Cultural Heritage Repositories on the Web Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, TEI '19: Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction :259-267 DOI Author Url Publisher Url Public Url
Pereda J, Murrieta-Flores P, Ritsos P, Roberts J. 2017. Tangible User Interfaces as a Pathway for Information Visualisation for Low Digital Literacy in the Digital Humanities IEEE VIS 2017 - 2nd Workshop on Visualization for the Digital Humanities, IEEE Vis Author Url Public Url
Pereda J, Isaksen L. 2014. Developing downloadable TUIs for online pedagogic activities TEI'14 Eighth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, Munich, Germany, 16 - 19 Feb 2014., TEI'14 Eighth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction Public Url
Poster
Bailey R, Pereda J. 2022. Achieving representation in sustainable socio-technical infrastructures 26th General Conference ICOM Prague Author Url Public Url
Roberts JC, Frankenberg-Garcia A, Rees G, Pereda J. 2017. Visualisation and graphical techniques to help writers write more idiomatically IEEE Conference on Visualization (VIS)
Frankenberg-Garcia A, Lew R, Roberts J, Rees G, Pereda J. 2017. Best practices in combining learner needs, lexicographic data and text editors to help learners write more idiomatically eLex 2017
Chapters
Pereda J, Heathcote D. 2020. First Thing, Everything: InterDesign Manifesto Delorie OL. Creative Manifestos: Inspirational Statements to Celebrate Self-Expression :58-58 Sterling Publishing Company, Incorporated 9781454939214 Publisher Url
Pereda J. 2017. Exploración del Patrimonio Cultural a través de Interfaces Tangibles en la Red Jiménez-Badillo D. Arqueología Computacional. Nuevos enfoques para el análisis y la difusión del patrimonio cultural. 1 :265-283 INAH. Mexico City 978-607-539-027-7 Author Url
Scholarly edition
Pereda J, Heathcote D. 2019. First Thing, Everything: InterDesign Manifesto DOI Author Url Public Url
Thesis/Dissertation
Pereda J. Online Cultural Heritage: Facilitating Complex Query Making Through Tangible User Interfaces Earl G, Yin Y, Isaksen L.
Conference organisation:
Towards decolonial approaches in zoo interpretation, Co-Organiser, https://biaza.org.uk/events/detail/towards-decolonial-approaches-in-zoo-interpretation. 2025
Towards a National Collection Two-Day Conference 2024, Organiser, https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/events/conference/towards-national-collection-two-day-conference-2024. 2024
Conference presentation:
Getting Ready for a Digital Future, University Museums Group Conference. Connections and Collaborations: University Museums and Research Excellence (UMG), Reading, Oral presentation, https://zenodo.org/records/11394465. 2024
Where do I stand? Deconstructing Digital Collections [Research] Infrastructures: A perspective from Towards a National Collection, Open and Engaged 2023: Community over Commercialisation, British Library, Oral presentation. 2023
Building the Future of Digital [Research] Infrastructures, Creative Commons Global Summit 2023, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlaltelolco, Mexico City, Oral presentation. 2023
El Taller 3.0, a new vision for AI and the Digital Humanities to approach Mexican historical documents, Creative Commons Global Summit 2023, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlaltelolco, Mexico City, Oral presentation. 2023
Unlocking the Colonial Archive Project, XVI Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México, Austin, Texas, Oral presentation. 2022
Achieving representation in sustainable socio-technical infrastructures, 26th ICOM General Conference, ICOFOM – International Committee for Museology, Prague, Poster presentation. 2022
GLAM Challenges and Opportunities in UK collections. Towards a National Collection, Museums Association Digital Innovation and Engagement Fund, Online, Oral. 2022
Towards a National Collection and the Future Of Digital Humanities, Between Technology and Theory: Digital Humanities Projects in Progress, The Warburg Institute, Oral. 2022
Design Thinking for Online Cultural Heritage Engagement, SPARC - UKIERI Digital Heritage Workshops, Oral presentation. 2021
Afrobits: An Interactive Installation of the Trans Atlantinc Slave Trade, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, London, Oral presentation. 2020
Afrobits An interactive installation of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, British Library Labs Awards Symposium, Oral presentation. 2020
Exploring Online Cultural Heritage. Integrating Queries Through Tangible User Interfaces on the Web, Virtual Heritage Network, Maynooth University, Ireland, Oral presentation. 2015
Online Cultural Heritage. Integrating Queries through Tangible User Interfaces on the Web, Virtual Heritage Network, Maynooth, Ireland, Oral presentation. 2015
The New Online Museum Manifesto, Museums and the Web, Baltimore, USA, Oral presentation. 2014
Web Based Tangible User Interfaces for Online Museums, DigiFest, Southampton, Uk, Poster presentation. 2013
Web Based Tangible User Interface for an Online Constructivist Museum: The God Collector Experiment, Museums and the Web, Portland, Oregon, USA, Demo Talk. 2013
Web Based Tangible User Interfaces for Constructivist Museums, Digital Transformations Moot, London, Oral presentation. 2012
Membership of professional bodies:
ICOFOM - International Committee for Museology (ICOM-ICOFOM), International Council of Museums (ICOM), https://icofom.mini.icom.museum/. 2023
Research Grants Awarded:
Institute of Art and Technology QR, Facilitating Citizen Science on Museum Collections. An Analysis of Decolonial Narratives Through El Taller de Gráfica Popular, Grant value (£): 2,300. 2021
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC-CASE), Museums, Big Data and the Violence of Empire, Dr Deana Heath , Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores , Dr Emma Martin, Grant value (£): 100,000.00, Duration of research project: 4 years. 2021
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC-UKRI) and National Endowment for the Humanities (US), Unlocking the Colonial Archive: Harnessing Artificial Intelligence for Indigenous and Spanish American Historical Collections, Grant value (£): 361,236.00, Duration of research project: 3 years. 2020
Liverpool John Moores University, Printeractive. Developing a practice towards the integration of interaction design and printmaking., Hannah Fray, Grant value (£): 2,000. 2018
Liverpool John Moores University, Towards an LJMU Linked Data Repository, Hannah Fray, Grant value (£): 2,000. 2018
CASIAD Research Fund, Visualising Beyond the Mask, Grant value (£): 2,000. 2009
CASIAD Research Fund, Socio-cultural relationships of Mexican Wrestling in Latin America., Grant value (£): 2,000. 2008
Award:
Afrobits - Best Research Project Finalist, British Library Labs, British Library, https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/12/shortlist-and-voting-bl-labs-public-awards-2020-last-chance-book-bl-labs-symposium.html. 2020
Afrobits - Special Commendation Artistic Project, British Library Labs, British Library, https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/12/shortlist-and-voting-bl-labs-public-awards-2020-last-chance-book-bl-labs-symposium.html. 2020