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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

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

Contact Information

ORCiD:

Biography

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.

Amelie Roper, PhD

Research Facilitator

Cambridge University Library

Areas Of Expertise:

Big data, Repositories (general), Institutional repositories, Licensing, Copyright, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data Management Plans, Digitisation, Workshop delivery, Website development

Contact Information

alr39@cam.ac.uk

@amelieroper

ORCiD:

0000-0003-3239-2208

Biography

Amelie Roper is Research Facilitator at Cambridge University Library. Her role involves supporting grant applications for research funding for library activities, and assisting with project delivery once funding is awarded.

She studied music at King’s College London and Library and Information Studies at University College London. She also holds a PhD in book history from the University of St Andrews.

Her research interests include early modern European print culture, digital music publishing and big data.

Andrew Thwaites, PhD

Visiting Scientist

Department of Psychology

Areas Of Expertise:

Bioinformatics, Data sharing, Big data, Coding, Python, R language, SQL, Git, Matlab, Java, Data visualisation, Machine learning, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Data policies, Data archiving, Code sharing, Open data, Imaging, Illustration, Website development

Contact Information

acgt2@cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0002-6237-7140

Biography

Additional areas of expertise:

Neuroscience data

Clare Trowell

Marshall Librarian

Faculty of Economics

Areas Of Expertise:

RDM training, Data Management Plans, Altmetrics, Symplectic Elements, Open Access, Copyright, Licensing, Surveys, Worshop delivery, Social media and digital communications, Illustration

Contact Information

clt61@cam.ac.uk

@ClareTrowell

ORCiD:

0000-0002-3140-5524

Biography

As Marshall Librarian I have taken an active role in supporting the Faculty of Economics with research. I have experience of supporting Open Access and Copyright. I have also completed Masters level training in RDM in my previous role at University of Sheffield. Craig Peacock, IT Manager in Economics, and I are working together as Research Data Champions in the Faculty. We are exploring training opportunities for undergraduates and all new postgraduate students in RDM and we have also given advice on completing ESRC Data Management Plans to academic staff making grant applications.

Dan Jones

Research Grants Administrator

Department of Sociology & Department of Politics and International Studies (POLIS)

Areas Of Expertise:

Data sharing policies, Sensitive data, Data Management Plans, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data storage, Workshop delivery, Illustration

Contact Information

dj347@cam.ac.uk

Biography

My day-to-day job mostly involves helping postdocs and UTOs manage research funding applications and awards, through which I found myself receiving lots of questions about GDPR, research data management, and data management plans. I joined the Data Champions in order to help provide answers, and to be able to give applicants and award-holders in my department access to the network's excellent information and resources.

Lizzie Sparrow

Research Support Librarian

Department of Engineering / Cambridge University Libraries

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Open data, Data policies, Copyright, Licensing, Workshop delivery

Contact Information

eja47@cam.ac.uk

@library_lizzie

Biography

As the Research Support Librarian at the Department of Engineering I am part of the Technology Libraries team providing library services for the Departments of Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology, and Computer Science and Technology. My role includes providing training and advice on research data management and open data. I became a Data Champion in my previous role as the Library Manager at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative, supporting nature conservation researchers from the university and NGOs. I have previous experience, from research during masters degrees, working with ethnographic data in libraries and statistical analysis of palaeobiology data using R.

River Cronin

Assistant Research Services Librarian

Department of Engineering

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Licensing, Copyright, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data policies, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Data sharing, Open data, Surveys, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications, Video editing, Illustration, Website development

Contact Information

rcc40@cam.ac.uk

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Biography

Before joining the Engineering Library in 2017, I worked in a variety of roles around Cambridge, including supporting researchers with effective communication of their work. I currently support resource and training provision in areas including research skills, open access, reference management etc.

Additional areas of expertise:

Information literacy, research communication, social media use for researchers.

Sacha Jones, PhD – Data Champion Programme Supervisor

Research Data Manager

Office of Scholarly Communication

Areas Of Expertise:

Research data management, Data Management Plans, Licensing, Sensitive data, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Apollo (Cambridge University repository), Data sharing, Open data, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Database design, Workshop delivery, Digital illustration

Contact Information

scj23@cam.ac.uk

ORCiD:

0000-0003-0492-2662

Biography

I joined the Office of Scholarly Communication in November 2018 as Research Data Coordinator for the Research Data Management Facility. I manage the Data Champion Programme as part of my role. I have a PhD in Biological Anthropology from the University of Cambridge and was a Post-doctoral Research Associate at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research from 2009–2017, specialising in human evolution and Palaeolithic archaeology.

Additional areas of expertise:

Archaeology data

Sherine Awad Mahmoud, PhD

Postdoctoral Research Associate, Clinical Biochemistry

Areas Of Expertise:

Python, R language, Git, C/C++ language, Data mining, Machine learning, Version control, Licensing, Copyright, Research data ethics, Data policies, Data storage, General repositories, Data sharing, Code sharing, FAIR Data, Writing/publishing data papers, Bioinformatics

Contact Information

sa941@medschl.cam.ac.uk

Biography

I have a PhD in Computer Science specialised in Bioinformatics from Michigan State university. I had my postdoc training in Bioinformatics from University of California Davis before moving to University of Cambridge.

Stefanie Felsberger

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Alex Gushurst-Moore

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Amelie Roper, PhD

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Andrew Thwaites, PhD

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Clare Trowell

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Dan Jones

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Lizzie Sparrow

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River Cronin

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Sacha Jones, PhD – Data Champion Programme Supervisor

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Sherine Awad Mahmoud, PhD

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