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Sara Ellis-Nilsson is Associate Professor of Early History at Linnaeus University. Her research interests are interdisciplinary and include cultural heritage, cultural history, material culture, hagiography/liturgy, and digital humanities. She is the project leader of the Swedish Research Council funded, ‘digitisation and accessibility of cultural heritage collections’ (DIGARV) project, ‘Mapping Lived Religion: Medieval Cults of Saints in Sweden and Finland’. The project runs from 2019-2024. As part of this project, I will be studying the development of special feast days, their role in lived religion, and their connection to lay piety. From 2021-2023, I was one of the co-leads of the project and initiative, ‘Nordic Spatial Humanities: Linking, Building, and Sustaining Humanities Digital Spatial Infrastructures for Research in the Nordic Countries’. Working together with the PI at Uppsala University and co-leads at the University of Bergen and the University of Iceland, we have generated dialogue and exchange between academic and non-academic sectors, focusing on the needs of the humanities in terms of spatial data and data infrastructures for research and dissemination.