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Rebecca Taylor-Grant

Dr. Rebecca Taylor-Grant is Director of Open Science Strategy & Innovation at Taylor & Francis, where she leads the implementation of Open Science policies and programmes. She has a background in data management for the humanities and social sciences and is co-chair of the STM Association’s Research Data Program Humanities Data Subgroup, as well as the RDA Research Data Policy Interest Group. She is a qualified Open Data trainer certified by the Open Data Institute. She was previously a member of the Research Data Alliance’s European Support Team, based at the National Library of Ireland and the Digital Repository of Ireland. Her PhD explored the connections between archival theory and practice and the management of research data.

Dear group members, Please find below a call for provocations ahead of the UK Reproducibility Network conference, on the topic of Open Research in the Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences, which I am posting on behalf of the session organisers. I hope it is of interest. Open call for participation/contributions: What does open research mean […]
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July 2, 2026
Dear IG members, The notes from our webinar are now available. In the session we were joined by guest speakers Valerie McCutcheon and Michael (Mick) Eadie (University of Glasgow, UK) and Radoslaw (Radeck) Pajor (University of Leicester, UK) and the session focused on recent projects which have examined the quality and usefulness of data availability […]
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February 9, 2026
Dear RDA co-chairs, We’re thrilled to invite you to our first online meeting of our group since we officially updated our scope, goals, and name. As the renamed Data Policy Interest Group, we now provide an inclusive, global forum for discussion and collaboration on the development, implementation and evaluation of research data policies for all interested stakeholders. […]
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January 14, 2026
Dear Data policy standardisation and implementation IG members, We invite you to please share your thoughts on the future goals and activities for our group. Background This year we welcomed two new co-chairs to the Data policy standardisation and implementation interest group to include more diverse areas of research publishing and funding agencies. We have […]
August 16, 2023
Dear group members, Ahead of our P20 session (now scheduled for Breakout 4, 10.00 UTC on Wednesday 22nd March (Increasing the positive impacts of journal policies on data sharing practices)) we are running a workshop which will build on the plenary session we held back in June at P19. To keep things interactive we are […]
February 1, 2023
Hello group members, The Data policy standardisation and implementation IG has a session coming up next Tuesday June 21st at RDA Plenary 19 – please join us if you can! Our session on Exploring features and improving standards for data availability statements will be looking at the ways that authors describe the availability of their […]
June 17, 2022
Hello group members, I’m delighted to announce that Sarah Ramdeen, Laura Molloy and I have been joined by Hea Lim Rhee as new co-chair of the Archives and Records Professionals for Research Data IG. Hea Lim Rhee is a principal researcher at the Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information (KISTI). She received her Ph.D. […]
March 10, 2022
Hello group members, Just a quick reminder that our plenary 18 session, “Considering the impact of strengthened data policies” is happening tomorrow at 7.00 UTC, in Breakout 1. We have an excellent line-up of speakers who will be discussing the implementation of strong data policies by publishers, plus the potential benefits to other stakeholders when […]
November 2, 2021
Hello archives group members, You have probably seen the email notifying the group that our session proposal for Plenary 18 has been accepted. You can see the draft agenda here: Moving the past forwards: shaping our future IG to serve archives and records professionals. The theme of the session is how we should move forwards […]
September 28, 2021