Strategic responsibility for digital content in Cultural Collections & Galleries at the University of Leeds, UK. Strategic lead for digital collections, digital preservation, digital access, copyright and licensing. 

Jodie Double is a digital cultural heritage specialist and archives leader focused on building sustainable, user-centred access to collections held in archives, libraries and special collections. With an interdisciplinary background spanning architecture, art history, and library and information science, she brings a practical, collections-led approach to making cultural heritage materials discoverable, usable, and preserved for the long term. 

Over her career in academic institutions in the United Kingdom and the United States, Jodie has led work across the digital cultural heritage lifecycle: including but not exclusive to mass digitsation, collections as data, rights and licensing for cultural heritage, collections assessment and strategic prioritisation; and metadata modelling, normalisation and migration. 

She also contributes to professional practice through conference presentations, publications, and collaborative projects that bring together archivists, collection owners, technologists, and communities to solve real preservation and access challenges. 

She is also co-chair of the LIBER – DSDCH working group and also co-convenor of RLUK-DSN (Research Libraries UK – Digital Scholarship Network) in addition to being a member of several international working groups related to digital scholarship activities.