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
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:
Co-Organiser, Towards decolonial approaches in zoo interpretation, https://biaza.org.uk/events/detail/towards-decolonial-approaches-in-zoo-interpretation. 2025
Organiser, Towards a National Collection Two-Day Conference 2024, https://www.nationalcollection.org.uk/events/conference/towards-national-collection-two-day-conference-2024. 2024
Conference presentation:
Oral presentation, Reading, University Museums Group Conference. Connections and Collaborations: University Museums and Research Excellence (UMG), Getting Ready for a Digital Future, https://zenodo.org/records/11394465. 2024
Oral presentation, British Library, Open and Engaged 2023: Community over Commercialisation, Where do I stand? Deconstructing Digital Collections [Research] Infrastructures: A perspective from Towards a National Collection. 2023
Oral presentation, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlaltelolco, Mexico City, Creative Commons Global Summit 2023, Building the Future of Digital [Research] Infrastructures. 2023
Oral presentation, Centro Cultural Universitario Tlaltelolco, Mexico City, Creative Commons Global Summit 2023, El Taller 3.0, a new vision for AI and the Digital Humanities to approach Mexican historical documents. 2023
Oral presentation, Austin, Texas, XVI Reunión Internacional de Historiadores de México, Unlocking the Colonial Archive Project. 2022
Poster presentation, Prague, 26th ICOM General Conference, ICOFOM – International Committee for Museology, Achieving representation in sustainable socio-technical infrastructures. 2022
Oral, Online, Museums Association Digital Innovation and Engagement Fund, GLAM Challenges and Opportunities in UK collections. Towards a National Collection. 2022
Oral, The Warburg Institute, Between Technology and Theory: Digital Humanities Projects in Progress, Towards a National Collection and the Future Of Digital Humanities. 2022
Oral presentation, SPARC - UKIERI Digital Heritage Workshops, Design Thinking for Online Cultural Heritage Engagement. 2021
Oral presentation, London, Electronic Visualisation and the Arts, Afrobits: An Interactive Installation of the Trans Atlantinc Slave Trade. 2020
Oral presentation, British Library Labs Awards Symposium, Afrobits An interactive installation of African music and the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. 2020
Oral presentation, Maynooth University, Ireland, Virtual Heritage Network, Exploring Online Cultural Heritage. Integrating Queries Through Tangible User Interfaces on the Web. 2015
Oral presentation, Maynooth, Ireland, Virtual Heritage Network, Online Cultural Heritage. Integrating Queries through Tangible User Interfaces on the Web. 2015
Oral presentation, Baltimore, USA, Museums and the Web, The New Online Museum Manifesto. 2014
Poster presentation, Southampton, Uk, DigiFest, Web Based Tangible User Interfaces for Online Museums. 2013
Demo Talk, Portland, Oregon, USA, Museums and the Web, Web Based Tangible User Interface for an Online Constructivist Museum: The God Collector Experiment. 2013
Oral presentation, London, Digital Transformations Moot, Web Based Tangible User Interfaces for Constructivist Museums. 2012
Membership of professional bodies:
International Council of Museums (ICOM), ICOFOM - International Committee for Museology (ICOM-ICOFOM), https://icofom.mini.icom.museum/. 2023
Research Grants Awarded:
Grant value (£): 2,300, Institute of Art and Technology QR, Facilitating Citizen Science on Museum Collections. An Analysis of Decolonial Narratives Through El Taller de Gráfica Popular. 2021
Duration of research project: 3 years, Grant value (£): 361,236.00, 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. 2021
Duration of research project: 4 years, Grant value (£): 100,000.00, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC-CASE), Dr Deana Heath , Dr Patricia Murrieta-Flores , Dr Emma Martin, Museums, Big Data and the Violence of Empire. 2021
Grant value (£): 2,000, Liverpool John Moores University, Hannah Fray, Printeractive. Developing a practice towards the integration of interaction design and printmaking.. 2018
Grant value (£): 2,000, Liverpool John Moores University, Hannah Fray, Towards an LJMU Linked Data Repository. 2018
Grant value (£): 2,000, CASIAD Research Fund, Visualising Beyond the Mask. 2009
Grant value (£): 2,000, CASIAD Research Fund, Socio-cultural relationships of Mexican Wrestling in Latin America.. 2008
Award:
British Library, Afrobits - Best Research Project Finalist, British Library Labs, https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/12/shortlist-and-voting-bl-labs-public-awards-2020-last-chance-book-bl-labs-symposium.html. 2020
British Library, Afrobits - Special Commendation Artistic Project, British Library Labs, https://blogs.bl.uk/digital-scholarship/2020/12/shortlist-and-voting-bl-labs-public-awards-2020-last-chance-book-bl-labs-symposium.html. 2020