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Jonathan Birchall, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Radiology

Areas Of Expertise:

Git, Matlab, Data visualisation, Big data, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Data architecture, Version control, Experimental design, Data storage, Code sharing, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Imaging, Textual data, Digital illustration

Contact Information

jb2455@cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0003-3920-4038

Biography

I am currently a Research Associate in the Gallagher Group, where my goals are to develop novel screening techniques for cancer using pre-clinical hyperpolarised 13C-MRI, with an aim towards evaluation, documentation and eventual translation of these techniques into human imaging. This work is jointly funded by the University and The National Cancer Imaging Translational Accelerator (NCITA), where I am a member of the QA/QC Unit responsible for developing Standard Operating Procedures and performing data analysis on NCITA exemplar studies towards the creation of an MRI Core Lab.

I received my PhD from the University of Nottingham in 2017, researching experimental methods for improving 129Xe hyperpolarisation with an application to clinical functional lung imaging. I continued in a postdoctoral role for one year, performing QA/QC duties for the clinical Hyperpolarised Imaging Lung Facility (HILF), before moving to Wayne State University, Detroit, USA to take up a 2.5 year postdoctoral role developing pre-clinical hyperpolariser technologies for 13C, 15N and 129Xe.

I have always had a passion for statistics and communication, and as a Data Champion in the Department of Radiology, I hope that I can collaborate with my peers across a diverse range of projects, advocating for good record-keeping, analysis, dissemination and other facets of research data management.

Shawn Zamani

PhD Student

Early Cancer Institute

Department of Oncology

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Git, SQL, Other programming languages, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Electronic Lab Notebooks, Data collection, Version control, Institutional repositories, General repositories, Code sharing, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Geospatial data, REDCap, Social media & digital communications, Website development, Bash

Contact Information

sz384@cam.ac.uk

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ORCiD:

0000-0001-8622-5013

Stefanie Felsberger

PhD student

Centre for Gender Studies, POLIS

Areas Of Expertise:

Data collection, Copyright, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data sharing, Open data, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

sf658@cam.ac.uk

@flsbrgr

ORCiD:

0000-0001-7720-3541

Biography

Stefanie Felsberger is a PhD candidate at the Centre for Gender Studies at Cambridge University. Her research focuses on fertility tracking applications and asks how women in Egypt and Austria navigate the commodification of personal data to question conceptions of gender and labour in surveillance capitalism, data ownership and commodification. Before she worked as Bartlett Fellow at the Access to Knowledge for Development Center at the American University in Cairo. Her work looked at access and control of data, and the political economy of data, and surveillance theory. Stefanie studied Political Science and Arabic Studies at the University of Vienna.

Alex Gushurst-Moore

Research & Impact Coordinator, Fitzwilliam Museum

Areas Of Expertise:

Data visualisation, Data collection, Database design, Licensing, Copyright, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Open data, Digitisation, Social media & digital communications, Website development

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Alexandra Gushurst-Moore is the Research & Impact Coordinator of the Fitzwilliam Museum and Coordinator of Cambridge Visual Culture. Her doctoral thesis, entitled “The Making of Modern Fantasy in the Visual Arts of England, ca. 1850–1920”, was supervised by Elizabeth Prettejohn at the University of York. She holds an MA(Hons) from the University of Edinburgh and an MSt from the University of Oxford. Beyond her research, she has professional experience of and interest in British educational policy, the strategy and operation of HEIs and the facilitation of inclusive and supportive research cultures.

Amy Foreman, PhD

Research Project Manager/Information Scientist

The Gurdon Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, SQL, Data visualisation, Data collection, Database design, Open data, Writing/publishing data papers, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

alf45@cam.ac.uk

@AmzForeman

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Biography

Amy is a Research Project Manager and Information Scientist at the Gurdon Institute. She has experience working for an Open Access publisher and completed her PhD at the University of Exeter in 2019.

Andrzej Harris, PhD

Research Associate

Department of Biochemistry

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, Matlab, Data visualisation, Data collection, Experimental design, Data sharing, Data archiving, Bioinformatics

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I am a Research Associate in the Department of Biochemistry, where I specialise in electron cryo-microscopy (cryo-EM). I use cryo-EM data for the reconstruction and computational modelling of antibiotic transport by bacterial tripartite efflux pumps and related membrane proteins.

Claire Sewell

Research Support Librarian

School of Physical Sciences

Areas Of Expertise:

Data management, Copyright, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Research data ethics, Data storage, Data sharing, Open data, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications, Video editing

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Biography

I’m the Research Support Librarian for the Physical Sciences at the University of Cambridge where I oversee training and support for the research community across a range of disciplines. I’ve worked in research support for seven years and have recently published my first book - “The No-Nonsense Guide to Research Support and Scholarly Communication” (Facet Publishing).

Additional areas of expertise:

RDM for librarians, presentation skills.

Concetta La Spada

Senior Library Data Analyst

Cambridge University Press

Areas Of Expertise:

File sharing systems, Discipline-specific repositories, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Data storage, Data sharing, Data archiving, Open data

Contact Information

claspada@cambridge.org

@ConcettaLaSpada

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Biography

A native of Messina in Italy, Concetta completed her BA in Conservation of Cultural Heritage in 2007 at the University of Messina. During her university years she worked in various libraries and cultural institutions in Italy. She completed her MA in Archival and Library Science at the University of Rome ‘La Sapienza’ in 2009. In 2011 she moved to the UK where she worked as a Cataloguer for Blackwell, Baker & Taylor and YBP/EBSCO, acquiring great experience in cataloguing books and ebooks. In September 2015 she moved to Cambridge University Press where, as Senior Library Data Analyst, she uses her knowledge of cataloguing and metadata to improve the quality of the metadata supplied to customers and third parties. From 2017 she is the Cambridge University Press representative on the Metadata2020 project and from 2019 Social Media Manager for the CILIP – CIG Cataloguing and Indexing Group.

Additional areas of expertise:

Bibliographic databases, catalogues and repositories.

Creation and manipulation of metadata using tools like MarcEdit, Bibliofile, Classificationweb, WebDewey.

Library platforms such as WorldCat, Alma, Primo.

Dillan Saunders

PhD Student

Department of Genetics

Areas Of Expertise:

Discipline-specific repositories, Data analysis, Data collection, Data architecture, Experimental design, Imaging, Illustration

Contact Information

ddzs2@cam.ac.uk

@DillanDZ

ORCiD:

0000-0001-5169-5488

Biography

I am a PhD student in developmental biology in Ben Steventon’s lab. Through being part of the Data Champions network I hope to learn more about the management of data and share this understanding, as it develops, with my community. I hope to be a part of making academic research more accountable, accessible, and communal.

Emma Harrison

Data Manager, Clinical Neurosciences

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Laboratory Information Management System (LIMS), Data collection, Database design, Sensitive data, Data protection and research, Data sharing, Surveys, REDCap

Contact Information

eh435@cam.ac.uk

Biography

After completing my undergraduate degree in psychology, I spent several years working within the NHS and the charity sector, before moving into clinical research (Department of Oncology) in 2011. During this tenure I worked as a research assistant and latterly senior data manager, working across a variety of research and clinical systems (including OpenClinica, Achiever Medical and EDGE), gaining valuable experience in data approaches to research and governance. During this time I also completed a MSc in Psychological Research Methods. My knowledge and understanding of NHS systems was furthered during a secondment to the eHospital team, which facilitated the transition of Cambridge University NHS Foundation Trust to a fully electronic medical health record system (EPIC), the first of its kind in the UK.

I joined the Department of Clinical Neurosciences in 2020, bringing a wealth of experience in the collection and management of clinical data from my time in Oncology. I currently work with the clinical and laboratory teams and external stakeholders to design, create and deliver streamlined methods for the prospective collection of high quality clinical and sample data.

Jonathan Birchall, PhD

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Shawn Zamani

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Stefanie Felsberger

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Alex Gushurst-Moore

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Amy Foreman, PhD

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Andrzej Harris, PhD

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Claire Sewell

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Concetta La Spada

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Dillan Saunders

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Emma Harrison

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