Harold Short is Emeritus Professor of King's College London.
In 1988 he moved to King's College London to take up the post of Assistant Director in Computing Services for Humanities and Information Management.
[6] he also supervised the Technical research of the Clergy of the Church of England database.
[7] During 2011 to 2015 he was a visiting professor at Western Sydney University, where he was involved in establishing the Digital Humanities Research Group, which hosted the 2015 Digital Humanities conference.
[8][9] Since 2016 he is a Visiting Professorial Fellow at Australian Catholic University in Sydney, where he is co-director of the Julfa Cemetery Digital Repatriation Project.