Since April 2016 I have been Head of Research Data Services at UCL. My role involves the development and support of the live data storage service and institutional research data archive. I am also involved in integrating existing services and developing new ones to meet researcher requirements. Since 2022 I have been leading the development of our Research Data Stewardship function, and I am actively recruiting data stewards to support FAIR data and reproducible research across the university.
I was formerly employed as a Senior Project Manager at the University of Oxford IT Services, where I specialized in projects involved in developing research data management infrastructure for the University and had the unofficial role of coordinating the various activities taking place across the support departments of the University. I also provided researchers with advice and training in research data management, data sharing, and technologies for research. I have published a number of articles relating to institutional research data management.
My academic background is in 18th-Century English Literature and the history of ideas.
Introduction
The Research Data Architectures in Research Institutions Interest Group is primarily concerned with technical architectures for managing research data within universities and other multi-...
The Data Steward Career Tracks WG aims to develop a methodology for creating data steward personas as well as sample set of data steward personas that are linked into a sample career track.
In recent ...
The Data Versioning WG has transitioned to the Data Versioning IG as of July 2021. The group space has remained the same.
The demand for reproducibility of research results and re-using data is gro...
Preparing for the 16th Plenary
The IG on Surveying Open Data Practices draws attention to the growth of global and national-level surveys as a lens to characterize how researchers’ practices and per...
Status: Recognised & Endorsed
Universities and research institutions are becoming increasingly interested in collecting and providing access to datasets produced at their institution that do no...
The Preservation Tools, Techniques, and Policies (PTTP) IG provides a forum to bring together domain researchers, data and informatics experts, and policy specialists to discuss such issues as:
What ...
This is the webpage of the RDA Interest Group on professionalising data stewardship.
The idea to create an interest group was raised in a BoF session during the 14th Plenary (Helsinki), and a first i...
RDA-OfR Mapping the landscape of digital research tools WG
The WG has now completed its work and its deliverables are being maintained by the Mapping the Landscape of Digital Research II (MaLDReTH) W...
This is a working area dedicated to the RDA activities, updates and events in UK.
Feel free to register by clicking on the Join link on the right. You will be automatically subscribed to the group mai...
Context and purpose
Research data repositories are at the heart of data sharing as they provide platforms to acquire, store, archive, publish, curate, preserve, and access data. Thus, the major goal o...
