Data Champions Search

Aurora is a PhD student at the University of Cambridge. Prior to earning her MPhil degree from Cambridge with Distinction and Best Dissertation Award, she majored in Spanish and minored in Psychology with a First and Best Dissertation Award. Her research lies at the intersection of applied linguistics, psychology, and sociology. In addition to research training in areas such as experimental design, she is particularly interested in digital scholarship and open research.

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.

In my role as Academic Services Librarian, I manage services delivered in the Haddon Library with a specific focus on supporting teaching and research for the Departments of Archaeology and Social Anthropology. I am also the Research Support Lead for the Humanities and Social Sciences Libraries Team, working across the School of HSS to support research excellence and training as well as assisting in exercises such as the REF.

Additional areas of expertise: Information literacy, Research communication, Public engagement, Creative Commons, Open sharing.

I’ve been working in the Department of Psychiatry for almost a decade now. I specialise in improving process and workflow and in research data management. I also work in branding, digital recruitment, website design and administration, social media management, and data architecture. I am particularly good at thinking of new and creative solutions to emerging problems. I am currently working on ways to govern and organise the many research projects within my department and in the School of Clinical Medicine, and on creating ways to share research and imaging data (MRI, PET etc) openly.