Director,
project on computers and history, King's College, Cambridge, Research
Centre, 1973-6.
Co-director,
research project on computers and history, Social Science Research Council,
1974-82.
National
convener, two year seminar on history and anthropology, sponsored by
the Social Science Research Council, 1975-7.
Director,
project on the records of the Portuguese Inquisition, funded by King's
College Research Centre and the Gulbenkian Foundation, 1982 to 1987.
Director
of project to put an English village on the Internet, funded by Renaissance
Trust and King's College Research Centre, 1996-2002.
Other
Director
of Rivers Video Project, Department of Social Anthropology, Cambridge,
1983 on (with some funding from the Renaissance Trust).
Adviser
to BBC 'Timewatch' series. Contributor to BBC television series (6 part)
on British Archives (2000).
Principal
contributor, with numerous appearances, to six one hour Channel 4 television
series programmes on the history and anthropology of the world (broadcast,
June, 2000 as 'The Day the World Took Off').
Director
of the 'Cambridge Experimental Videodisc Project' on the Nagas of Assam,
1985-1992 (funded by Nuffield, Leverhulme, and Economic & Social
Research Council).
Director
of project on 'Social and Economic Change in the Central Himalayas',
199O-1993 (funded by the Economic and Social Research Council).
Director
of project on modern information technologies and their application,
1990 to present (funded by the Renaissance Trust); the 'Bamboo' advanced
information retrieval system to be available in 2006.
Research
Seminar on Asian and European Technologies, funded by Renaissance Trust
and King's College Research Centre, 1996-1998.
Director
of project on 'Digital Himalaya', funded by Royal Anthropological Institute
fund and Renaissance Trust, 2000 on.
Co-Director
of Digital Orient research project (2002 onwards).
Director
of project on China's minorities; an archival and historical approach,
funded by the Firebird Foundation for Anthropological Research(2004 onwards).