Dr Amelie Roper
Head of Research
Directorate: Research Collections
Department: Research Development
Email: researchdevelopment@lib.cam.ac.uk
Amelie leads activities to foster collaborative research relating to the Library’s collections. She is also an AHRC / RLUK Professional Practice Fellow (2022-2023), working on 'Documenting the role of UK science in the Covid-19 pandemic'.
Prior to joining Cambridge University Library in 2019, she worked at the British Library as Research Development Manager and Digital Music Curator. In addition, she was a British Library Coleridge Research Fellow, working on digital sheet music published in the UK.
Her doctoral thesis looked at the culture of music printing in sixteenth-century Augsburg, and she is more generally interested in the material culture of the book in early modern period. She is also interested in very modern collecting, including the impact of the 2013 Non-Print Legal Deposit Regulations on library collecting.
Publications:
Access Amelie's list of publications on ORCID
Professional memberships
- International Association of Music Libraries
- Bibliographical Society
- AHRC Peer Review College
Associated research projects
Curious Cures in Cambridge Libraries
A project to conserve, catalogue and digitise medieval medical recipes, funded by the Wellcome Trust.
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Documenting the Role of UK Science in the Covid-19 pandemic
An investigation into what would be needed to implement a national programme to collect, preserve and provide access to the scientific record of Covid-19.
CHERISH
Cambridge Heritage Science Hub (CHERISH) aims to build a connected research community for Archaeological and Heritage Science in Cambridge through the development of partnerships and collaborative projects.
AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH)
By creating both a community of practice and a prototype workspace, ArCH will enable heritage practitioners and collections researchers to harness the power of AI to unlock cultural heritage collections.
Materialising Open Research Practices in the Humanities and Social Sciences (MORPHSS)
MORPHSS will investigate ways to encourage and embed innovative open research practices within humanities and social science (HSS) disciplines
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Writing is a medium of communication that represents language through the inscription of signs and symbols.
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Photography:
Headline image © Alice the Camera / Cambridge University Library
Image of COVID: Alissa Eckert, MSMI; Dan Higgins, MAMS © Public Health Image Library.
ArCH image: Hanna Barakat & Cambridge Diversity Fund from Better Images of AI
MORPHSS image: Historical Printing Room punches, reproduced by kind permission of the Syndics of Cambridge University Library.
Collection items featured:
Curious Cures manuscript: CUL MS Dd.6.29 (ff. 27v-28r)
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