Professor Ross Parry

Ross Parry is Director of the Institute for Digital Culture at the University of Leicester, and Professor of Museum Technology in its School of Museum Studies.

A Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, former Tate Research Fellow, and former chair of the UK’s national Museums Computer Group, Ross is also one of the founding Trustees of the Jodi Mattes Trust – for accessible digital culture.

He is a board member of Attenborough Arts Centre, and a member of the UK Research and Industry’s Steering Committee of its £19mn digital cultural heritage initiative ‘Towards a National Collection’. Previously he was visiting professor at the Danish Research Centre on Education and Advanced Media Materials (University of Southern Denmark), and from 2017 to 2021 he served on the International Advisory Board for the €6mn ‘Our Museum’ project, funded by Nordea-Fonden and Velux Fonden.

Ross continues to lead the ‘One by One’ international consortium of museums, professional bodies, government agencies, commercial partners and academics, that together are working to build digitally confident museums. After a three-year national project in the UK (working with the Museums Association, Arts Council England and the National Lottery Heritage Fund), the consortium’s subsequent projects have brought partners (including the V&A, Science Museum, National Museums Scotland and Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum Wales) into an action research collaboration with the Smithsonian Institution and American Alliance of Museums. The work now continues (in partnership with Surface Impression and Culture24), supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.