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Clair Castle

Librarian

Department of Chemistry

Areas Of Expertise:

File sharing systems, Discipline-specific repositories, Repositories (general), RDM training, Data Management Plans, Apollo (Cambridge University repository), Institutional repositories, Surveys, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications, Website development

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I have been managing the Chemistry Library since October 2013 and for 15 years before that I managed the University's Zoology Department library so I have experience of supporting biological and physical science researcher needs. At Chemistry I train all new postgraduate students in RDM and give advice on compliance with open access and data sharing mandates.

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

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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.

George Cronin

Library Manager (Biological Sciences)

School of Biological Sciences

Areas Of Expertise:

Open Access, Altmetrics, Data Management Plans, Licensing, Statistical analysis, Copyright, Sensitive data, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Discipline-specific repositories, Data sharing, Open data, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications, Video editing, Illustration, Website development

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gmp36@cam.ac.uk

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ORCiD:

0000-0003-0054-6436

Biography

In my role as Library Manager (Biological Sciences) I support STEMM students and researchers across the School of Biological Sciences. I have worked in a variety of different roles over the years and have worked with different groups such as business students and polar scientists. I teach regularly on various research topics and manage library services in the departments of PDN, Genetics, Plant Sciences and Zoology.

Additional areas of expertise:

Social media use in research, Research communication and outreach, Public engagement, Creative Commons, Open sharing.

Lixinhao (Aurora) Gao

PhD student

Areas Of Expertise:

Data collection, Experimental design, Discipline-specific repositories, Open data, Textual data, Audiovisual data, Workshop delivery, Social media & digital communications, Website development

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Aurora is a PhD student at the Faculty of Education. Before obtaining 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.

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.

Mandy Wigdorowitz

PhD Student

Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics

Areas Of Expertise:

File sharing systems, Repositories (general), Data analysis, R language, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Data Management Plans, Data collection, Database design, Experimental design, Research data ethics, Data protection and research, Data storage, Institutional repositories, Data sharing, Open data, Writing/publishing data papers, Surveys, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications

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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.

Mark Fernandes

Bioinformatics Training Developer

Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute

Areas Of Expertise:

File sharing systems, Big data, Discipline-specific repositories, Repositories (general), Licensing, Copyright, Sensitive data, Code sharing, Bioinformatics, RDM training, Coding, Python, R language, SQL, Git, Database design, Data storage, Workshop delivery, Social media and digital communications, Video editing, Website development

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mark.fernandes@cruk.cam.ac.uk

@MAFatCRUK

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Biography

I have over 30 years experience of Scientific Computing. I have worked on Image analysis of Light Microscopy images, Scientific IT Support (13 years), Data-driven web applications of mathematical models and Bioinformatics Training at the Institute of Food Research (Now the Quadram Institute). I have been involved in an EU Framework Database Workshop. I strive to include good data-handling and reproducibility practices into all training materials.

Meng Liu

PhD student

Faculty of Education

Areas Of Expertise:

R language, Data visualisation, Statistical analysis, Data collection, Version control, Discipline-specific repositories, Code sharing, Open data, Surveys, Textual data, Workshop delivery, Social media & digital communications

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I'm a PhD candidate in the Second Language Education Group at the Faculty of Education. My research lies at the intersection of applied linguistics and educational psychology. I am interested in open research, particularly in exploring a more inclusive model of open research that takes into account paradigm differences in the social sciences. I have received specialised training in a variety of topics such as Structural Equation Modelling, Bayesian statistics and mixed methods research. I am also currently a Methods Fellow at Cambridge Digital Humanities.

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.

Xinyi Wen

PhD student

Department of History and Philosophy of Science

Areas Of Expertise:

Data Management Plans, Data collection, Database design, Data architecture, Version control, Data storage, Open data, FAIR Data, Data archiving, Data preservation, Writing/publishing data papers, Textual data, Audiovisual data, Digitisation, Workshop delivery, Social media & digital communications, Website development

Contact Information

xw360@cam.ac.uk

@HPSWarburgian

ORCiD:

0000-0002-2147-2854

Biography

I am a historian of science, medicine and humanities. Currently I am a PhD candidate at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, working on the Wellcome-funded research project "The Doctrine of Signatures in Early Modern Medical Practice (221115/Z/20/Z)". I specialise in the history of medicine, natural history and occult sciences in early modern Europe, and the history of ideas in the long nineteenth century, particularly in the circle of art historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929). Before coming to Cambridge, I have worked as a new media art curator in Beijing.

As a historian, I am very interested in the historical aspect of Research Data Management from early modern botanical taxonomy, nineteenth-century index cards to the digital age. I seek to explore how techniques of data management shaped our perspectives, methodologies, and construction of scientific objects in the long run, and how our RDM practice in humanities today could benefit from past theories and experiences. I am the founder of the History of Science Library, a public Zotero library for the history of science and a resource hub for historical and contemporary data management in humanities. Currently I'm running RDM training sessions both in my department and virtually based at the History of Science Library, please feel free to get in touch.

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George Cronin

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Lixinhao (Aurora) Gao

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Mandy Wigdorowitz

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Mark Fernandes

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Meng Liu

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River Cronin

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Xinyi Wen

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