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I currently lead the Open Research Systems Team, which is part of the Digital Initiatives within Cambridge University Library. My role involves being responsible for the technical aspects of our Institutional Repository, Apollo, as well as evaluating and integrating the institutional repository and related workflows for data and publication deposits into other systems, such as CRIS systems for research information management.

Additional areas of expertise: 

Digital archiving, social sciences data, repositories, metadata standards, linked data.

I am a PhD student in engineering, in the machine learning group. I am passionate about using version control for data/code management, and various kinds of virtual lab notebooks.

I am a Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Scott Polar Research Institute, where I use a combination of novel satellite imaging techniques, airborne geophysical observations and climate-ocean model data to investigate the key climatic drivers responsible for controlling the rapid deterioration of the Antarctic Ice Sheet since the onset of the satellite era (~1970-present). As such, I have a range of experience in the handling, processing and visualisation of complex geospatial datasets, and have experience in the usage of several different computer programming languages to do this. My experience also includes the long-term archiving and preservation of data to support scientific reproducibility, ranging from the publication of small, project-specific datasets to institutional collections (including assisting with the recent publication of SPRI’s historical Arctic airborne radio echo sounding data archives).

I am a PhD candidate in the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics at the University of Cambridge and a Research Psychologist registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. I sit on the Executive Committee of the Division for Research and Methodology of the Psychological Society of South Africa and I am the Assistant Editor for the Journal of Open Humanities Data. I am interested in understanding language and interaction from social, cognitive and psychological perspectives, as well as applying, developing and evaluating psychometric assessments.