Dr. Sarah Ogilvie is a prominent linguist, lexicographer, and computer scientist. She holds the position of Senior Research Fellow in the Faculty of Linguistics, Philology, and Phonetics, and of Campion Hall at the University of Oxford. Additionally, she is the Director of Oxford’s MSc in Digital Scholarship.

Dr. Ogilvie has an impressive academic background, having taught at Stanford and Cambridge Universities and worked at Amazon’s innovation lab in Silicon Valley. Her research intricately combines technology and the social sciences, focusing on areas such as lexicography, endangered languages, language documentation, field methods, historical development of language, corpus linguistics, and digital humanities.

In 2023, she authored The Dictionary People: The Unsung Heroes Who Created the Oxford English Dictionary. The book delves into the voluntary contributions made to the Oxford English Dictionary, shedding light on the identities of these contributors after discovering address books belonging to editor James Murray.