Douglas Dodds is an independent curator and researcher. He was previously a Senior Curator in the Word and Image Department at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. He was responsible for developing the Department's digital art collections, which range from early computer art to recent born-digital works. The V&A now holds one of the world's largest public collections of computational art.

V&A exhibitions and displays include Chance and Control: Art in the Age of Computers (2018-2020); Barbara Nessim: An Artful Life (2013); Digital Pioneers (2009-2010); and The Book and Beyond (1995). Douglas also curated a much-expanded version of the Barbara Nessim exhibition at the Bard Graduate Center in New York City (2014).

In 2007 he instigated the V&A's Factory Project, a major initiative to digitise the museum's Prints, Drawings, Paintings and Photographs collections. By 2021, some 760,000 PDP object records and 280,000 images were available via Explore the Collections. In 2013-14 Douglas also led the digitisation of the National Art Library's unique inventory of Entartete Kunst ("Degenerate Art"), a typescript list of artworks confiscated by the Nazi regime. Other V&A projects include Deciphering Dickens, the aim of which is to make the manuscripts of Charles Dickens's novels more accessible online.

Douglas was a Trustee of Seven Stories, the National Centre for Children's Books, from 2015 to 2021. He chaired the associated Seven Stories Collection Trust until 2022.