At the British Academy's Early Career Research Showcase event on 9 October 2015, Dr Matthew Nicholls – holder of a British Academy Rising Star Engagement Award – spoke about his digital visualisation of Ancient Rome, and more generally about digital visualisation and the future of the academic book.

Speakers:

Dr Matthew Nicholls
Associate Professor in Classics at the University of Reading

James Rivington (interviewer)
Editor, British Academy Review

Recorded 9 October 2015. This interview was undertaken as a contribution to Academic Book Week in November 2015.
http://acbookweek.com/

More information about Matthew Nicholls' Virtual Rome project
www.reading.ac.uk/classics/research/Virtual-Rome.aspx

A version of this conversation is published in British Academy Review 27 (February 2016)
http://www.britac.ac.uk/digital-visualisation-ancient-rome-and-beyond


Matthew Nicholls on digital visualisation and the future of the academic book

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